Yes. I just happen to have all this stuff within arms reach even though I despise ISU.
Football Season Postmortem
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Go help your mom with dinner. I’m done with the circle jerk crew for tonight. When you grow up and can spend your own money on ISU stuff...feel free to prove your worth on this site beyond being the resident Hawk expert.
Go State!
definitely not a hok. Love what CMC is doing and hope we can keep him. But, we need to be fair with our expectations going into seasons. Campbell never said "this year we win 10 games" or asked for the national expectations. The o-line is still a work-in-process. We had two former walk-ons starting and 3 came from CPR's last class. I don't think it will come together next year (hope I am wrong), but if Purdy stays for his senior season that will be a special year. I would go 8-9 wins next year... we need to get the o-line some experience, not fair to say they will step in and be finished products.
Obviously we can lose every year to Iowa if we can compete for conference titles, as any one should feel. Not being able to stop K state and to an extent Texas bothers me infinitely more. Just wondering if we should start expecting to get dragged into slop fests with limited possessions playing catch up no matter what. I guess I have my answer. It's not much fun but it is what it is.
Ya I love the “expectations were sky high!” Crowd. That just means you bought in to media hype that is being sold to by people that have a vested interest in getting that hype built. It’s not the coaches, it’s not the players, it’s not the AD. Everyone gets hook, line and sinkered by CW, Hines, and the Rag. They only hear the “this team could win 10 games!” Part and just totally skip over the “if EVERYTHING goes their way” part.
I fee like a lot of these people that are so depressed only have themselves to blame. Pretty sure I picked 7-5 in the preseason poll thread because I actually listen to and do analysis rather than just sitting there and taking what is force fed to me.
all things considered I thought Brock threw the ball really well and I would have liked to see us make them do the same at all costs. I know in game thread most CFs were calling for stacked boxes. I do get that it's not our style that has brought us our success, and you generally should dance with who got you to the dance. But I think even with the wind we just laid an egg in the 2nd half, both sides of the ball, but a little more so defensively.. I agree we were more predictable than usual because crazy wind, but K State completed about 2 passes til late in the game and they were picking up 3rd downs on the ground with impunity. They were even more predictable and we had no answer IMHO. I know it sounds like I'm not appreciative of 7 win seasons. Trust me I am. And it's sustainable and I'm happy about that. Just hate getting papercut to death by a team daring you to stop them.
As a former high school football coach, I told the kids, a thousand times "little things mean a lot, and if you do not do those little things, before you know it, they add up to big things."
That was the problem with this years team, at the start of the year, Purdy was keeping the ball on the ROP instead of giving it up, when Hall finally started getting playing time, he then gave it up to Hall way to much. That might have been on the coaches, we will never know, but we just cannot be so one dimensional.
The defense just did not take away the ball enough, and gave up too many long plays on 3rd and a mile.
Doing or not doing the little things is how ISU ended up with 7 wins, and Baylor gets to 11.
That was the problem with this years team, at the start of the year, Purdy was keeping the ball on the ROP instead of giving it up, when Hall finally started getting playing time, he then gave it up to Hall way to much. That might have been on the coaches, we will never know, but we just cannot be so one dimensional.
The defense just did not take away the ball enough, and gave up too many long plays on 3rd and a mile.
Doing or not doing the little things is how ISU ended up with 7 wins, and Baylor gets to 11.