Painfully obvious we are a long ways away from taking that next step as a program. Still happy to be a 7-8 win team every year over the constant 3-9 seasons under Rhoads tho.
Anyone else just start laughing
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Remember in The Dark Knight where Batman is beating the Joker, and the Joker is just laughing? That's kind of how I feel with Iowa State. Just numb to the pain they try to inflict
Yeah, I'm looking at Big 12 results and I'm not exactly sure why people think we're 3rd in the Big 12. Pretty clear OU and Texas are 1 and 2 and I don't see us beating them.
But beyond that it's anyone's game IMO and so far other Big 12 teams are getting it done, even on the road. KSU went to MSST and beat em. Oklahoma State went on the road to Oregon State and dominated them. TCU just went and beat up on Purdue at Purdue. Baylor has been playing nobodies but their smallest margin of victory is 39. Kansas is going to be Kansas but with Les Miles who knows if they can get some better athletes, too early to say if they are going to improve with time.
ISU beat an FCS team in 3OT and lost to Iowa, a team that I think is probably closer to average than good, especially considering their injuries.
I think there was a lot of hype around this season but seven wins is probably an optimistic if not realistic target.
ISU is not bad, but they’re mistake prone. So they need to make fewer mistakes or get talent to overcome those mistakes or they will continue to lose these close games.
I do too. It would be great to stop losing these games due to stupid mistakes.
demoncore1031
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Agreed. We have the talent and all of the errors are fixable. It's just another typical season for ISU - make mistakes early on and then start to get things rolling.
After watching ISU do things like this for 56 years I completely agree ...This is who we are and of course we have a "Long ways to go."
Exactly.
Matt Campbell can’t beat Iowa. Just accept it and move on, because he can beat everyone else and that’s something rare here.
I thought last week's playing without a helmet was this season's winner, but I was wrong.
AND, suddenly, ALL the other Big XII teams are winning.
Purdy's fumble before the half was the game changer. All the rest was icing on the cake. I put a lot of this on Messingham killing drives with some seriously stupid play calls to kill drives.
Iowa made zero mistakes and gave themselves a chance. Iowa state was the better team but couldn’t get it done on the 3-4 plays that would have swung it our way. Isu was the better team and lost. I’ve said that before and that is so damn frustrating.
I don't know - it is always possible for a team to score 29 in the 4th quarter. And if it hasn't happened before, you could bank on it under that circumstance.
Seneca Wallace's senior year was worse. Because it was late in the season when the meltdown occurred. But my expectations are firmly grounded for the rest of the season, because I know what can happen, I have seen it two games in a row. Go State!
