{"id":12597,"date":"2020-12-21T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2024-12-04T01:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T07:34:06","slug":"i-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/i-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"I was wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"December 31, 2009<\/strong>: Insight Bowl, Tempe AZ. Iowa State beat Minnesota 14-13. I thought it could be the start of good years for ISU football; instead, it kind of was a high-water mark of the Rhoads era. It’s hard to believe this was a decade ago \u2014 and the 2000 Insight Bowl two decades.<\/em>
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I am on record as believing that if Paul Rhoads could not figure out Iowa State football, no one could. (We can’t know what effects Conferencepocalypse had on his tenure.)<\/p>\n

I am on record as being unsatisfied<\/a> with Matt Campbell’s off-field demeanor, including if not especially the “Team Out East<\/a>” stuff, and for that matter with his early on-field demeanor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am on record as believing in the immutability of Iowa State football as the universe’s plaything<\/a> \u2014 its last conference championship nearly as close to the Louisiana Purchase than the present day \u2014 and its\u00a0saga against a football blue-blood<\/a> as\u00a0Sisyphean.<\/p>\n

I am on record that I hate hate<\/a> hate hate<\/a> hate hate<\/a> LOATHE wearing outfits that do not represent the cardinal and gold of Iowa State University.<\/p>\n

However.<\/p>\n

Campbell has led Iowa State to three eight-win seasons, two<\/em> wins against Oklahoma including the first at home since 1960, a bowl game against Notre Dame, its second and third AP Top 10 rankings ever, its first regular-season finish atop conference standings in modern college football history…<\/p>\n

…and now, its best bowl game ever (the 1977 Peach or possibly 2018 Alamo the previous title holders). Iowa State will be playing in the Fiesta Bowl, in a January bowl game.<\/em> That’s a sentence I never thought I would type.<\/p>\n

I can’t argue with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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