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No. 81: Iowa State
By Paul Myerberg // Jun 14, 2012
How does Iowa State win games? As a whole, the program has brought in only 10 four-star recruits since the 2003 recruiting cycle, according to Rivals.com. In comparison, Texas, a team Iowa State beat on the road in 2010, signed 15 four-star recruits on this winter’s national signing day alone. The program has not finished better than second-to-last in the Big 12 team recruiting rankings since 2004. There’s little that would lead one to believe that Iowa State, with little in its corner, could hang with the programs to which life comes easy. But there’s coaching. Grit, perhaps? An underdog mentality tinged with a devil-may-care attitude, one that leads I.S.U. to engage its heavily-favored conference foes with guerrilla warfare, sneaking through the back door to win five, six, seven games. When the dust clears, the rest of the Big 12 asks the following question: How did Iowa State win six games? Sometimes, a team will ask: How did Iowa State beat us? If there was a way to bottle moxie, you’d see a picture of Paul Rhoads and the Cyclones on the label.
Tags: A.J. Klein, Aaron Horne, Big 12, Brayden Burris, Carter Bykowski, Cole Netten, Courtney Messingham, David Irving, Durrell Givens, Iowa State, Jacques Washington, Jake Knott, Jake McDonough, James White, Jansen Watson, Jared Barnett, Jeremy Reeves, Josh Lenz, Kirby Van Der Kamp, Paul Rhoads, Roosevelt Maggitt, Shontrelle Johnson, Steele Jantz, Tom Farniok, Tom Herman, Troy Douglas
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