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**Saul Good** · 01-31-2012, 02:52 PM

the second thread has been pronounced dead.

Pitt Gorilla · 08-28-2012, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saul Wickedson

The Big 12 is far from a shit conference this year. They are ****ing stacked.

I agree. I was kidding.

RustShack · 08-28-2012, 08:32 PM

Is it time for ISU to take the next step?
August, 28, 2012
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By David Ubben | ESPN.com
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Paul Rhoads remembers well what life was like early on in his tenure at Iowa State.

"Every snap there were 11 guys getting coached on where they were supposed to be, when they were supposed to be there and how they were supposed to be there," the Cyclones coach said.

Better results followed Rhoads' arrival, despite the sometimes remedial education in practice. The Cyclones reached bowl games in two of the past three seasons, just missing a third in 2010 after an overtime loss to Nebraska.

Entering 2012, the odds are against Iowa State reaching a bowl game for a third time under Rhoads, but he's trumpeted all offseason that this is his best team. Fall training camp illustrated why he believed it.

It was "different," he said.

"It was a football team that understood how to train, how to practice, how to work, whether it was in the meeting room or walk-throughs or on the practice field. I’m very encouraged by that," he said.

He added: "There’s a lot of things in the past three years that we’ve really had to coach or maybe even overcoach, that we’re not having to spend time on anymore. We’re a veteran football team who understands what we’re doing offensively and defensively.

"We have a level of maturity about us that I hadn’t experienced in the first three years."

Iowa State will get a chance to start the season with the best win of any Big 12 team. The Cyclones host Conference USA member Tulsa, but are 1.5-point underdogs.

"We’re not the ones that were 7-0 late in the season in a conference schedule," Rhoads said. "We’ve got all kinds of respect for Tulsa and their football program."

The fourth year under Rhoads has been all about the program taking the step beyond sneaking into bowl games and being near the bottom of the Big 12 standings.

Rhoads points to the way his players are coached these days as proof that the next step has arrived in Ames.

"Now, they’re getting [the basics] done on their own, it allows you to start coaching the little things. 'If you’d have flipped your hips here and then done this a little bit sooner or this this way, you’d become more efficient.'" Rhoads said. "When you’re able to coach those little things, the technique things, the things you coach a guy who gets the basics, then you start becoming a better football team."

**Saul Good** · 08-28-2012, 08:53 PM

According to Vegas, it's the year for ISU to win 4.5 games.

RustShack · 08-28-2012, 08:55 PM

They've been wrong about ISU the last three years, no reason why this year would be any different.

**Saul Good** · 08-28-2012, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RustShack

They've been wrong about ISU the last three years, no reason why this year would be any different.

Actually, you've been wrong every year.

**BigMeatballDave** · 08-28-2012, 09:05 PM

Whose toilet is this? I'm thinking Frazod...

RustShack · 08-28-2012, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saul Wickedson

Actually, you've been wrong every year.

Lol how have I been wrong at all? The only thing I've said the last few years is Iowa State will be better than they were last year. They have been. The records didn't always show it because of harder schedules, or injurys, or other various reasons. But if you follow and watch the team, they have clearly been improving each year under Paul Rhoads.

I understand people like you who just look into the stats part of it wouldn't realize what you can see on the field that the stat book doesn't show. There is a reason why Iowa State nearly sold out every home game last year in probably the first year ever.

tredadda · 08-28-2012, 09:59 PM

Although the SEC has made inroads in Texas I still think UT will get the cream of the crop of Texas recruits. I think the SEC picking up additional recruits in Texas will hurt schools like OU and OSU more that UT.

**KcMizzou** · 08-28-2012, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saul Wickedson

According to Vegas, it's the year for ISU to win 4.5 games.

I'll say this, I admire RustShack's enthusiasm for his team. He's been at it for years.

Since we're not in the Big 12 anymore and I don't have a dog in the fight, It'd be cool to see them kick ass for him.

BWillie · 08-28-2012, 11:24 PM

Remember when I said KU would win 11 games, made a thread and everything. Then they did. Just wanted to allow u all to reflect on my supreme college football knowledge

SPchief · 08-29-2012, 02:40 AM

This thread is pretty lame now.

**Saul Good** · 08-29-2012, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

I'll say this, I admire RustShack's enthusiasm for his team. He's been at it for years.

Since we're not in the Big 12 anymore and I don't have a dog in the fight, It'd be cool to see them kick ass for him.

I agree. I've got nothing against the Clones.

**Saul Good** · 08-30-2012, 07:21 AM

Biggest game of opening day of the 2012 season is South Carolina@ Vandy. Biggest game of the opening weekend is Michigan/Alabama.

SEC bringing the heat early.

Infidel Goat · 08-30-2012, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave

Whose toilet is this? I'm thinking Frazod...

The irony is that the owner probably pees more on the Tiger stripes than the Jayhawk.

Mr. Plow · 08-30-2012, 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave

Whose toilet is this? I'm thinking Frazod...

God I love the hate we have for each other.

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