Well where do I start. UNI continued to dominate, Iowa nearly blew a good first half performance against I-AA Arkansas State, and my Cyclones pissed it down their leg.
I will start with the good news. UNI continues to roll over it's competition. They are still on target to win the conference and make a deep run into the post season, most likely all the way to Chatanooga.
I was not able to see the Iowa game and was very surprised to see that they only beat Arkansas State by three when I got into Arrowhead. I hear the second half wasn't very pretty. This week they host Michigan which will be on ABC at 7:00PM on Saturday evening.
Moving on to the ISU game. We can only blame the loss on ourselves. The last play ultimately lost the game but it was not a bad kick at all, you could hardly call it a low kick, the KSU player that blocked the kick is 6'4" and has a 38" vertical...don't forget he was fully extended, basically he was way up there. That play aside we lost this game, the offense was hardly there all day and lived off a few key plays. It is beyond me why we keep giving Austen Arnaud the ball to run, he is a great QB but has a tendency to fumble, not only does he fumble he never gets his head back into it, not in practice not in a game and the entire offense usually follows his lead. Thankfully this week he was able to throw a deep pass into the back of the end zone that our reciever was able to catch. At that moment for once we thought this was our time, for once we got the lucky break, we got that big play to win the game, only for a few minutes later to receive another kick in the balls. What can we say this is Iowa State. On the bright side we have the coaching staff and players that do not accept this, we deserve better and they take full responsibility. Another bright point came from a very disappointing play. K-State was driving and had a pass play in which their receiver was pushing our corner all the way down the field and then fell out of bounds when the ball was over thrown...the ref decided to call pass interference. To say the least all of our fans/team/and coaches were extremely upset with boo's raining down players getting in eachothers faces and several of our coaches screaming at the ref with coach Rhoads following him out on the field and throwing his hat on the ground. Needless to say K-State now had a first and 10 on the 15 or something like that. Our defense showed what it had with boo's raining down after each play coaches continuing to scream at the ref...the defense held and forced K-State to settle for a field goal, I am very happy with this since I never expected this defense to do that. We have to do the best to put this hard loss behind us because this week we have to go down to Kansas...not going to be a fun game. You can catch it on Versus at 11:30AM on Saturday.
I will be heading home this weekend and watching the last home coming game at Armstrong field, it will be a sad day but hopefully the team can keep up the spirit and improve to 7-0, GO LIONS!!! I probably won't update until after next weekend so good luck to everyone and have a great weekend! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!
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