The same people who wanted Chizik canned after 5-19 are sticking up for a guy who is 6-18 over his last 24. I don't exactly get it.
NO, people who realize that Iowa State is one of the very worst programs in the history of the NCAA, didn't want Chizik fired.
People that realized that mac left a deeper crater of a program than he inherited, with a few nicer facilities (thanks Gene Smith, and sorry baseball), didn't want Chizik fired.
People that realized all of the tenuous state we had in the BCS/P5 conference, didn't want him fired.
People that realized that the inherent disadvantages that were used as excuses by bruiser mccarney were real. Of course now, they don't seem to matter, didn't want him fired
So no