What pressure is on Chizik?

[darts180]

I want to see a team that appears to be well coached. A team that when you watch them, they are fundementally sound, and appear to have made halftime adjustments.

 

[Flag Guy]

I agree - Superfan and I travled to 3 away games and went to all of the home games, after a while it started to all look the same. There were the same holes being exploited in our defense over and over.

Playing with a certain level of consitency would be nice too, insted of playing up and down (While it's nice to see us step up to tough opponets, we should be able to tap our potential when we're not playing hard teams as well)

 

[Cyclonepride]

I'm not sure there is a ton of pressure, but there is certainly some in any season. I want to see how the staff evaluated the incoming talent (with that many jucos, they should be hitting the field or it was a waste of a scholarship). I would also like to see some serious imagination when it comes to play calling. My two main gripes with Mac (also a big Mac supporter) were that I could almost always predict exactly what play was going to be called in certain situations and I got very tired of seeing the corners playing 10 yards back on a 3rd and 4. If your corners can't match up, why not play a cover 2? Unless of course your linebackers can't cover the middle.

 

[cyclonenum1]

It seems apparent that Chizik wants to make an immediate impact in the Big 12 North and the non conference schedule, but is that possible? Chizik was on the coaching fast track when he took the ISU job, so he has to see opportunity to win, sooner than later.

Why do you find it a novel concept that our coach wants to win and win now? You have to realize that we now have a coach that is not interested in moral victories and throwing away seasons so we can "wait 'til next year".

Great coaches understand that winning is an all the time thing...not a once in a while thing. Great coaches put more pressure on themselves than anyone else can ever dream of putting on them. Chizik has already made a positive impact on the program and I for one am expecting big things on the field!

 

[Stormin]

I look for us to have a different attitude on the Football field. In Hayden Fry's first year at Iowa they thrashed by Nebraska. The next year they beat Nebraska 10-7. Attitude and coaching can have a real impact on next years team. We aren't really that far away from being decent.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Let's start with winning any game that doesn't come down to the last play.

against texas, oklahoma, and nebraska i'd gladly win on the last play.

 

[ISUonthemove]

OFFENSIVE LINE/DEFENSIVE LINE

That's where it's at fellas. It cannot be any worse than it was a year ago and Chizik did one hell of a job in those areas (for the time he had).

JAMICAH BASS

Will be "sucessfull" because he has speed and uses it. He hits the holes very hard from what I saw on film.

 

[TxCycloneFan]

My expectations are 5 wins. Only five...

that would be one of the rare occasions a new coach won more than 4 games:

1995 Dan McCarney 3-8
1987 Jim Walden 3-8
1983 Jim Criner 4-7
1979 Donnie Duncan 3-8
1973 Earle Bruce 4-7
1968 Johnny Majors 3-7
1958 Clay Stapleton 4-6
1957 J.A.Myers 4-5
1954 Vince DiFrancesca 3-6
1947 Abe Stuber 3-6
1943 Mike Michalske 4-4
1941 Ray Donels 2-6
1937 Jim Yeager 3-6
1931 George Veenker 5-3
1926 Noel Workman 4-3
1922 Sam Willaman 2-6
1921 Maury Kent 4-4
1920 Norman Paine 4-4
1915 Charles Mayser 6-2
1913 Homer Hubbard 4-4
1907 Clyde Williams 7-1
1902 A.J. Ristine 6-3
1901 Edgar Clinton 2-6
1900 C.E. Woodruff 2-5
1895 Glen "Pop" Warner 3-3
1894 Bert German 5-1
1893 W.F. Finney 0-3
1892 Ira C. Brownlie 1-0 "Only undefeated coach in ISU History"
win a bar bet with that one!

 

[cyclonenum1]

He is going to win at least 7 games and get a golf course named after him!!

 

[siggie]

The players have never put presure on themselves and I expect Chizik to instill that drive to put everything on the line each and every play. The game against Missouri last year proved to me that the right players were not in the right positions. We had a running back that hadn't been in the right position and a coach that didn't call the right plays at the right time. Chizik will have to correct this for success. I see a 10-2 season with the right man.

 

[darts180]

that was one of the few positives you could actually take out of last year tho...short memory? Remember how many fans were SOOO pissed off how we would lose games that came down to overtime or that were decided in the last minute of the 4th qtr.? I heard tons of people complain...I know last year was not impressive, but at least we won 4 games all at the end...including winning our FIRST OVERTIME GAME EVER (i think we were like 0-5 before that or something), even if it was Triple OT with Toledo. Our defense held at the end against UNLV (sorry Rebel fans, but he was nowhere near inbounds) as well as the Mizzou game, say what you want about the holding call, but when all is said and done we won another football at the end. The UNI was mostly just because it was a ridiculously long FG...but people kinda got what they asked for, we won close games that came down to the wire even if they weren't the hardest teams on our schedule.

Me personally what I wanna see...take care of the teams you should...that was one bad thing about Mac (this is coming from a HUGE Mac-backer.) A Lot of times he would have his teams play up to or down to whoever they were playing, It's good to play up to a more talented team, but because Mac was a "rah-rah" motivator type of coach I think he struggled in getting his teams ready for lesser opponents...Kent State is what I wanna see...We should beat Kent State by at LEAST 3 scores. If that game goes down to the wire either way...we are in for a long season. I just don't see us competing later on if we can't take care of that early business in the season.

We beat a 1AA team, two D1 teams that won 6 games between them, and we used a bad call to hold on to beat Missouri when our coaches made unbelievably bad decisions. I don't see positives when it is the 12th year for the coach at the school. Especially when there is a 2-3 year rebuilding job to fix all the mess that was left, I don't see positives there either.

I do hope that Gene, and his coaches work on blocking and tackling in practice, instead of relying on high school coaches to have taught the recruits those skills.