ISU Fball Head Coaches
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Out of curiosity how old are you? Nothing against you but the younger generation has no idea how poss poor our facilities were back then compared to everyone else. I was an Iowa State ball boy and the locker room has rusty lockers in the old Okson building. It was like a high school in the locker room. Probably worse than some high schools. Mac finally got them to invest in facilities and I think the big 8 started to pressure teams like us to get up to speed. K State was really bad also. So our old coaches may have had horrible record but that was mostly do to us not keeping up back then. Campbell has way more to work with.
Out of curiosity how old are you? Nothing against you but the younger generation has no idea how poss poor our facilities were back then compared to everyone else. I was an Iowa State ball boy and the locker room has rusty lockers in the old Okson building. It was like a high school in the locker room. Probably worse than some high schools. Mac finally got them to invest in facilities and I think the big 8 started to pressure teams like us to get up to speed. K State was really bad also. So our old coaches may have had horrible record but that was mostly do to us not keeping up back then. Campbell has way more to work with.
Only 2 out of 17 head coaches who were at ISU for at least two seasons have a career winning record.
At least the Campbell is one of them.
At least the Campbell is one of them.
What sucked about those sanctions is we cheated and still sucked.
Things were not finer.
We had some flag footballs games at the stadium that looked better.
Walden and Criner are at least in the conversation for beat downs.
Mac got 70 hung on him a couple of times by Nebraska.
He's also the owner of the one-for '97 team. They were BAD.
That’s a HELL of a name thoughThose Homer Hubbard teams were legit…
Mac's win totals actually went down his first three years (95-3, 96-2, 97-1). Bumped up to 4 wins in 98 and the streak-breaker win at Iowa probably bought him more time. It's amazing how much patience Gene Smith had with him. If those results happen in this day and age he's out the door after year 3.
Everyone else was doing the same thing. They went after a bunch of schools like Iowa State so they could leave the big boys alone and act like they were doing something. Jeff Braswell got screwed over so hard for that nonsense. NCAA basically cheated him out of a career. He was a monster
You saw it go from decent to laughingstock. 89 we were 6-5 I think. That’s not bad.
I'm not apologizing for our entire history of bad football... however, we have not had the benefit of for example the big 10 west schedule. Nebraska and Oklahoma were nearly every year, Texas pretty often as well.
Our new league will hopefully mean sustained success in the win column. Hopefully we can erase some of those godawful stats that the media likes to bring up so often (never 10 win season, conference championship 1906 or whatever it was)
Our new league will hopefully mean sustained success in the win column. Hopefully we can erase some of those godawful stats that the media likes to bring up so often (never 10 win season, conference championship 1906 or whatever it was)
You cant understate what Mac did. I graduated in 94. In 95, Walden went 0-10-1 and wasnt really close to competitive in most games. They were hopeless.
Mac came in and pumped a million gallons of optimism and belief out of an absolutely dry well. He might have been the only person anywhere with the level of perseverance and personality needed to bring ISU out of the 9th level of hell.
Mac came in and pumped a million gallons of optimism and belief out of an absolutely dry well. He might have been the only person anywhere with the level of perseverance and personality needed to bring ISU out of the 9th level of hell.
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They were really bad. What was also bad was we had a locker room with mice in the corners eating at shoulder pads, maybe 6 working showers in the locker room and no practice field. Our equipment was driven to games in a yellow-painted UHaul truck.
Those coaches were bad but ISU had zero idea of how to be good at football back then
Will always be a big fan of what Earle Bruce did here.
Two things stand out, above what others have said. 1) Coaching 8 seasons or longer is a rarity at ISU! Only 4 people have done it and one was Jim Walden! 2.
List of Iowa State Cyclones head football coaches - Wikipedia
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Many wanted Bruce fired at the end of year 3, and the players called him ”jelly roll”. But he figured out how to get better after that.
You should have seen Clyde Williams Field. New stadium and Olson building were big improvements in 1975. Every coach has more to work with today. Iowa State is better today with facilities. So is everyone else. It’s still a struggle. And look at NIL today. Uphill battle.