Hope you're not right too.
Just a feeling team will rally around Lanning. Fight hard for Rhoades and send message they will not go quietly in to the gentle night.
Sense a rock fight mentality on both sides of ball with 60k plus screaming lunatics having their backs.
Love Iowa State in this spot:
ISU 34
UT 23
Something about Lanning and Warren and the move Paul made to"retake" the offense tells me it could be fun tomorrow.
Hope I'm right. Clone fans deserve a good Homecoming.
Oh no am I not allowed to care? You missed my point entirely.
I was simply saying the focus this week has been on Mangino and the offense. Generally speaking the offense has been decent with emergence of Warren and now hopefully Lanning coming in. We just can't score enough points with too...
Bingo.
Here's a comparable look at Big 10 West team DEFENSIVELY:
NCAA Rank: 12th total defense (out of 127)
OFF TDs Allowed: 10
YDS/play: 4.37
YDS/game: 294
ISU NCAA Rank: 113th total defense (out of 127)
OFF TDs Allowed: 30
YDS/play: 6.19
YDS/game:? 465
The Big 10 team btw is Iowa...
If this truly is the case(Mangino phoning it in) then this is the right move.
Maybe not the right time. But the right move for sure. CPR took the program back today and clearly made a move to start Lanning. I love it.
Is it possible that CPR took Mangino out before Pollard turned the...
You do realize Baylor's SOS is 102nd and Iowa's is 37th in Sagarin? Both teams are 7-0. So using this. Baylor may be the worse 7-0 team in FBS history.
The funny thing is in both cases playing ISU helps their receptive SOS as ISU is currently ranked 3rd. Baylor this weekend playing ISU and...
The line started at Baylor -31. Moved to Baylor -38.
if anyone saw weather forecast 2 days prior they were fools to take Baylor at give that many points.
Baylor looks bored out there. They deserve to get beat.
Briles' comments too at half about "expecting" another 35 in 2nd half borderline...
Thru 7 weeks the Big 12 has 2 defenses in the Top 50.
Oklahoma-23rd
OSU-29th
Thru 7 weeks the Big 10 has 9 defenses in Top 50
Michigan-2nd
Wisconsin-7th
Iowa-13th
Penn State-15th
Northwestern-17th
Ohio State-18th
Minnesota-27th
Illinois-30th
Mich State-36th
Same look for offense:
Thru 7 weeks...
I know it is hard sometimes to be a fan. Especially the last few years with poor records and just getting beat down in football. Not competing consistently.
But seeing a story like this. Seeing how the Cyclones always have a "kid" captain that is having a hard go be part of the "Captain"...
Um. Richardson has won 1 game. 1. As a starting QB in Big 12.
Couldn't you say Richardson has had ZERO success(except beating worst team in FBS) against Texas, Texas Tech,KState,OSU, Oklahoma,TCU,WVU and Baylor?
That seems more apt.
Hate to nitpick.
Big 12 Yes!!!!
I could see it under scenario of Big 12 actually having 12 teams in 2 divisions:
4 non conference wins over Iowa and FCS and 2 other non cons(MAC and ACC types)
4 wins in division(Kansas; KState; maybe a T Tech type and another team added in)
1 cross over win in division v...
Okay. Swear this is not a troll question:
Would Cyclone fan get behind a return of McCarney?
I know his last couple years were rough. But 5 bowl games is 6 years that were mostly competitive(Boise State notwithstanding). He loved being in Ames. He dominated Iowa mostly in his tenure. Is that...
Lanning is a classy kid. High character it appears.
Seeing him answer that question tells me he is a team guy first but you can sense his frustration.
Paw knows his ship is going down. He is stubborn. And it is almost an Eff U to people who are calling for Lanning.
To to say an evaluation...