Hoop coach

Hiring Frost was always a $5 million gamble. He had only been a head coach for 2 seasons and just happened to strike lightning in a bottle in his second year at UCF with many players from a previous staff in an arguably weak conference. Now after 5 years as an HC he will have had 4 losing seasons. As of right now it looks as if that gamble did not pay off. Maybe he can grow into the job and learn how to be a good HC, I don’t know. I know we can’t keep gambling and recoup our losses by doubling down on the next “bet” Ultimately our inability to hire a proven head coach is what has gotten us into this mess. Solich, no head coaching experience, and didn’t know how to be himself Callahan, NFL guy who could get talent but didn’t really understand college coaching, never had kids compete hard in practice, and too connected to his DC Pelini, no head coaching experience, best teams were with callahans players Riley, the anti pelini, Tom Osborne lite, lots of HC experience but a lifetime 7 win coach Now Frost, be real if he wasn’t who he is would anyone have been on board with him being hired at $5 mil a year?

Are we seeing Kirk Ferentz last game as the Iowa coach?

15 post penalty. Illegal use of a big word during the game thread Is that you Hank?

It was third and 3 still doesn't give us a first

Miles said after the game the team was still struggling with the offense. Looked to me like they were struggling with where the shots come from, thought we settled for the 3 to often. Defensively we were getting beat like a drum off the dribble, I hope we can shore that up. It will be a long difficult year but the 3 redshirts waiting in the wings for next season will be worth the wait.

Coaches want to coach, not just recruit, a lot of the good recruiters are AAU guys who can get players to join teams and they all consider themselves good coaches an want the chance to prove that. Head of basketball operations doesn't let you prove that. So even though it's less money it's a chance to actually coach.

Tips will tough, who has less of a vertical Sergai or Almeda

After watching them in the exhibition, if Miles wants to redshirt him, which I think is the right decision, he might need to make sure he is always in street clothes because the temptation will be there.

Great game Great game because PSU has no play-makers, the same reason Fisher looked so good against Michigan when Robinson went out of the game. So your saying he had a great game because PSU has no playmakers? You do realize they have probably, the best TE crew in the nation? They are dangerous over the air, but we have a great secondary, who doesn't give up. They have 1 receiver in the top 150, their running back is at 80 and a quarterback who is 62, yeah the have no playmakers. You are correct we statistically have a great secondary but we have played only 3 teams who rank in the top 50 in passing and one of those was Arkansas State. The best passing offense we have seen was UCLA and they are only at 31.

My feelings exactly, the games are amazingly entertaining, but we shouldn't lose perspective of how good we are.

Only if you define success by wins and losses, something Tom Osborne never did.

Great game Great game because PSU has no play-makers, the same reason Fisher looked so good against Michigan when Robinson went out of the game.

We deserve to be 8-2 because the 8 teams we beat are average at best. We have played 2 teams that are close to being complete teams and they both beat us. I challenge anyone to point out what our signature win is. We are a solid 15 to 20 rated team.

Blatchford is a great story, but he plays because our defense is nothing special. We have played 2 teams this year who are somewhat complete teams and we lost both those. Got absolutely housed by one of them.

Any Kool Aid drinkers out there still think we are a top 5 team if we could just eliminate our mistakes?