More impressive accomplishment
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This was a hard decision for me make. Yes these are 2 very impressive coaching achievements, but given the level of talent Iowa St is able to garner year in and year out (being a die hard HAWKEYE fan this is very very hard for me to type without puking) I have to go with coach Mac.
Not even close. Winning the league is what the goal of the season is. Not winning 6 or 7 games so you can go to a bowl.
I side with Ferentz winning the titles, but I think it is close. In my opinion ISU is one of the most difficult jobs in all of D1. What coach Mac did was impressive.
This is really a no brainer... It is way easier to go to six bowl games than it is to win your conference title. This is an absurd poll in my opinion. 6/6 gets you to a bowl game. Let's just leave it at this.
While I greatly appreciate what Mac did, and I agree ISU is one of the more difficult jobs in the country. it will be a long time -- if ever -- before anybody matches what Bill Snyder did at Kansas State. That was a considerably tougher place to win than ISU. Granted, the Wildcats don't have the problem with KU than ISU has with UI, and they are better situated to get talent. But they had no fans, no history of winning, horrible facilities......that was the one place a Cyclone fan could look to see a clearly worse situation. Not no more.
Incorrect. Everybody hated to see it happen, but practically everybody knew it was necessary.
Actually, not totally incorrect. You are right about Ames not being one of those big-time college places. No doubt about that at all. But Mac had lost the fans. Contributions and ticket sales were going into the dumper, fast, and there didn't seem to be any reason for optimism about the future.
He did a lot of terrific things for Iowa State.
