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I don't think that it is time to let him go NOW, but if he doesn't hire a new Defensive Coordinator, then he should immediately be on the hot seat.
Would you fire Paul Rhoads?
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Um, no. He's been great, but he's not the best player on the team, and it's definitely not "easily." He has a grand total of three touchdowns all year. I can remember at least two HUGE plays where he should've caught it and it ended up being a big mistake (drop-turned-INT against NDSU and missed deep ball against Toledo). Bibbs has been better. Farniok is probably more valuable too.
For some fans, yes. This year is his make or break year for me. Let's just say he's not making it.
Iowa State fans understand certain things......football has been and always will be a mighty struggle. You can bowl in the stadium, take post game videos of the coach's Knute Rockne impressions, basically give away tickets to fill the stadium, but at the end of the day it's still Iowa State. I'm not saying this to put the program down, it's just reality. Fire the coach? Why? Can you get someone better? Someone that will do what every other coach has been unable to do? Granted there have been a couple of flickers of hope in the past 60 years but those flames quickly died. Reality is a tough pill to swallow.
Since Early Bruce in the 70's we have had 6 coaches. 6 coaches in 35 years. A lot of you on here act like that is a ton. Iowa State now is on a more level playing field than it ever was. More competitive facilities, resources, and scholarship restrictions.
THANK YOU!!! You actually get what Iowa State football is.
You have won the internet for the rest of the weekend
Yeah - not many competent managers that would accept a measly $2 million a year for a job that only requires besting the bad and mediocre competition each year (aka FCS teams and the low hanging fruit in the conference).
You have to be joking. Richardson's **** poor play at qb is the main reason our offense suck's. How many times do you have to see defenses line up in cover 1 or cover 0 before you realize this. Defenses continually line up with 10 or 11 guys within 5 yards of the LOS. Spread offenses do not work in a phone booth. No deep ball threat. Slow reading defenses and even slower making decisions and getting the ball out. Nothing dooms a spread offense more than these things.
I do not blame Sam for this. I blame Herman and mess. Still does not change the results.
Sam is not even close to the best player on offens. The stats just look that way because he has a hard time getting anyone else involved with the offense. Which is a big part of being a good qb.
As far as the poll is concerned. I have moved from the give him one more year camp to the fire at the end of this year camp. Just don't see next year being any different from this year without a change.
If coaching stability is critical with your perennial top 25 teams then it is even more important with teams like ISU. I think we really need to understand WHO we are, and having a tenured HC with a proven OC who is progressing the offense and what I suspect will be a new DC who does the same can only HELP us in the long term.
Replacing CPR at the end of this season would be devastating to this team and program and it would take us 3-5 years to recover. We are so concerned about coaches using ISU as a stepping stone, but when you couple that concern with the idea that there is a lack of a partnership, patience, and understanding between the AD and the HC then we will be hard-pressed to get someone here who will stay more than 2-3 years. I can see us getting "Chizik'd" repeatedly.
At the same time, I think you also need to have urgency and demonstrate a commitment to winning that doesn't give the impression that we are settling for losing because we are ISU. This is where the partnership, patience and understanding comes in. I think you almost have to give CPR another year if he brings in a new DC. I mean, if CPR shows he is willing to make a change for improvement sake then that shows me he is willing to do what it takes to improve (he's being a HC) and I think it is fair to give him that opportunity. I also think it is fair to Mangino because if a new HC comes in, Mangino most likely will not stay and we are back to square one going another 3-4 years of losing before any real progress is made.
No, I think as far as FB goes JP understands this process will take some time and right now BB is helping buy that time. I think CPR brings in a new DC (Wally will retire) after this season and we see some improvement there just like we have on offense. At least, I hope so.
Lived with it, and embraced it, my entire life. When did people start caring so much about football anyway? We've never been good in my life and I'm 33.
I definitely think PR would have deserved another year had he completely cleaned the house last year. He didn't. He let some coaches go, and deservedly so. But others remained. Now it's quite clear that the decision to retain Wally was the wrong one.
With a new OC and DC after the 2013-2014 debacle, two years to a completely new staff would have been warranted. I have little doubt that Wally will be fired now, and a new DC brought in. But it's completely unfair to expect the new DC to turn things around from where they are this year, in only one year. Yet Rhoads deserves no more than one year. Given the messy situation, I'm in the crowd that wants CPR gone after this year.
With a new OC and DC after the 2013-2014 debacle, two years to a completely new staff would have been warranted. I have little doubt that Wally will be fired now, and a new DC brought in. But it's completely unfair to expect the new DC to turn things around from where they are this year, in only one year. Yet Rhoads deserves no more than one year. Given the messy situation, I'm in the crowd that wants CPR gone after this year.
Here's some more reality. If ISU were playing Iowa's schedule right now, we'd be 6-2, possibly even 7-1, and everyone would be freaking out that we're going to lose Rhoads. The answer isn't firing Rhoads. That only sets the program back another 5 years. The answer is for ISU to keep supporting him as much as possible and giving him everything he needs to keep building this program.
It will take time, though.
If the coaching staff resigned today, and we replaced them with really good coaches tomorrow, we would not see very much improvement until the new staff could bring in solid D-1 talent.
I feel terrible writing that, but it seems clear.
If the coaching staff resigned today, and we replaced them with really good coaches tomorrow, we would not see very much improvement until the new staff could bring in solid D-1 talent.
I feel terrible writing that, but it seems clear.
