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***Official Post Liberty Bowl Game Thread***

After that game I am prepared for a Yale victory tomorrow. My cup is on ... these things run in streaks
 
ISUAlum2002 said:
I know I won't. At 6-6 we'll just end up in another bottom tier cold weather bowl, no sense spending the hundreds of dollars on making the trip again.
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Memphis is not really a cold-weather bowl. Outside of Florida and San Diego, almost any bowl could be cold weather, and there are several lower-bowls that meet that criteria.
 
Cyclophile1 said:
My goodness the offensive line was very, very soft today. Did some good in pass protection early but seemed to tire quicky despite the small number of snaps and just got manhandled for 40 minutes. As has become typical, our receivers didn't do much to help a young QB who was clearly not physically 100%. Richardson looked sickI'm so glad this corps of receivers is done at ISU with the exception of Lenz. I won't be forced to watch these guys bail out on routes, get alligator arms, not get their feet under them to make a catch or go vertical/dive to make a play. I'm watching all these other bowl teams with guys who aren't Lilliputians who can actually make leaping/diving catches and make grabs where the ball is thrown a little high, low or behind them. They can actually get open versus press coverage and make a guy miss on bubbles and tunnels and get positive yardage. Richardson took that big shot in the second quarter and, combined with his flu, was just not going to get it done after that. He wasn't 100% clearly.

While, the offense clearly folded the tent early, I thought the defense wasn't very good either. Their OL generally pushed us around in the trenches and the LB play was wildly inconsistent. Knott was really a huge difference maker for us, but our DL grabbed ankles a lot today in the run game and made dumb penalties at critical times. They played well at times but not good enough to win overall despite getting a defensive TD.

Special teams play wasn't up to par and I generally thought we lost the field position battle.

I'm really hopeful that something happens to turn the offensive unit around, because I'm not very excited about our prospects in a status quo/stay the course scenario. I still think the most prominent issue for the year was a soft OL and poor pass game. The run game suffered too because of the lack of a need for the defense to play honest and could just flood a zone or send an extra LB. We MUST get the blitz/flood pickup squared away - it's simply embarrassing to have our OL simply clueless about this after close to three years.
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To your first point on the offensive line. Obviously the spread works with the right players. But watching us run it, our run blocking seem more like pass blocking..our guys don't explode and blow them off the ball because our plays develop so slow and start so far back. It is more like we pass block, just try to get in the way of the defense and hope the back gets through the crease if there is one. I would much prefer a more downhill, agressive approach where we line up under center most of the time and run out of that.
 
Need to Completely get someone new For OC job. I completely get being loyal but no one seems to have any idea how to run an offense. Quit just promoting another coach or bringing in another coach from the area who wants to move closer to home. Clean the house and give the fans a team that can out up more than a single touchdown on one p play, especially when given over a month to prepare for a team that we've already faced
 
We really lacked play makers today. Brun had a good first quarter, but was a non-factor after that. Everyone else did nothing. We looked very slow. In a game where we should be the more talented team, it look like we were their equal. Tulsa didn't look great, but we looked worse.

AJ made some plays on defense and Reeves was solid, but other than that we looked soft.

We looked like we weren't ready to play.
 
CycloneErik said:
The defense failed when the offense was doing OK. Again.

People never notice that the defense gives up drives when the offense is scoring, or controlling the clock, or basically just doing their part (on the times where that actually happens).

Both sides of the ball stunk. No one gets a gold star tonight. Everyone failed.
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I was actually giving the defense a dingy copper star with no smiley face.
 
After the loss in the bowl last year, I was upset. I then remembered that Barnett had shown some promise and that we would be coming into the year with him having better offensive weapons or at least Jantz with some better weapons. Then I remembered that we were going to have the two best linebackers in the Big12. I was optimistic for 2012.

However, Barnett and Jantz didn't improve at all. Knott got hurt and nobody was there to really step up. Our offense is horrendous no matter who is a QB and we lose AK47 and Knott next year. Really having a hard time getting optimistic for 2013 football. Big changes need to happen or I need to just resign to the fact that we are always going to be a .500 team.
 
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