Asking again: Has the rot started to set in?
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Every g5 team I watched yesterday including western Michigan against Iowa played far better on offense than we did. Colorado State looked like an nfl team compared to ISU.
The offense doesn’t have to be THIS bad without nfl future stars. Anybody who plays a lot of video game football could have manufactured more than 11 yards on rushing plays by opening up the offense and attacking more of the field.
11 yards on rushing plays…and we stuck with it!
this, if we had any offense, we would've won 35-10 and no one would be questioning anything
I agree. But the kicking is such an obvious thing to look at. It's consistently bad between coaching staffs. We're like an abused puppy. It doesn't matter that we have a new home. We're still scared.
That is by far the most disturbing observation beyond the game result and the fan exit incident.
Food poisoning can do that. Where did the food come from? Have they figured that out?
I like the passion, but did you become a fan in 2017?
It’s bittersweet, but it’s just more of the same of what we’ve had since 2017.
A quality defense, suspect ST, and horribly coached offense
The difference is there are no individual talents on offense to bail out the staff. Jump balls to Lazard or Butler. DM setting records for most broken tackles and YAC. Two top NFL rookies playing with a NFL TE.
I’m surprised you’re so bad at recognizing rot. The team, despite being poorly coached on offense, still plays hard. Prohm had a roster with NBA talent nearly fight on the court. Then a season in which players quit.
In Campbell's postgame comments, he said "it ran through us in the last 48 hours," which would go back to sometime Thursday. But then when Randy Peterson asked if they got it in Ohio, and Campbell said "when we landed," which would have been Friday afternoon. So the timeline seems a little fuzzy, but it does seem to suggest that whatever it was came from Ames or the plane rather than Ohio.
That said, maybe it wasn't food poisoning at all but norovirus, which was (anecdotally) going around weeks ago. And that stuff is crazy contagious, so if it is norovirus there might be a lot more guys getting sick in the next day or two.
I think it's more that, after last week, people who complained that the offensive style and playcalling was terrible were told they were only mad because ISU lost to Iowa, which wasn't true, and this game proved it.
imagine that game with a defense that quit. Ohio would have had a 4 TD win if we had bad effort.
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I am going to go out on a limb here and just guess you never liked Earle Bruce. What the heck does he have to do with CMC's current intransigence?
Sure, there were people saying that. I don't think that was the consensus though. Hell, I started a thread complaining about those very things (among other things) and got very little pushback.
Love Earle Bruce. Was in the stands during his last 4 years at every home game. Plus Iowa when we lost 12-10 to Iowa. Only TD was a Tom Buck punt return. Earle ran the same stubborn run, run, run style. Conservative. Relied on the defense. Fans bitched constantly. Won some close games. Lost many too. Ohio game was pathetic. This is Campbell’s chance to fix it. He’ll get this year and next for sure. And I will cheer for him to do so. And if he hasn’t fixed things then JP will need to enact his plan for that scenario.
Once again, another asinine thread by gunnerclone
People like CMC in Ames a lot and would quickly get back on board if steps were taken to revamp the offense, even with only a few tangible results. I think it's entirely up to him how this plays out.