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Iowa State – 20, Iowa – 17
KIRK
FERENTZ: Obviously it was a tough loss for our football team. Credit to
our opponent; they did a great job, particularly in the second half,
and that's really where the game was decided. We got outplayed in that
second half and it doesn't feel very good obviously. We'll go back
tomorrow and see if we can't improve here in the next six days.
Q. Just take us through the decision to call timeout.
KIRK
FERENTZ: At the end? I mean, there's not a lot of -- it's a 50/50 shot,
you either call a timeout or you don't. We called a timeout. We had one
left and that's the reason I called it.
Q. How difficult
was it for the offense to get into a rhythm? It seemed like once they'd
get something going, something would happen.
KIRK
FERENTZ: To me that seemed to be the story of the game. We did a decent
job in the first half. Second half we just never got in the traction.
Part of that is self-inflicted and part of that is just good play on
their part, so credit goes to them.
Q. Did you see any improvement in the running game?
KIRK
FERENTZ: Yes and no, but we didn't have the kind of consistency in the
second half to really feel like we saw improvement in anything right
now. We'll look at the tape tomorrow and see where we're at.
Q. Do you think the four sacks kind of equalized the three turnovers that you guys got?
KIRK FERENTZ: The sacks against us?
Q. Uh-huh.
KIRK
FERENTZ: I think a lot of those -- it seemed like we were out of
rhythm. It didn't seem like anyone just broke through there
necessarily. One time I think one was pretty quick, but to me it was
more of a team function, if you will. It seemed like we were just kind
of muddled there and Jake held the ball a little bit longer, and credit
goes to Iowa State. They played really good team defense today.
Q. Iowa is 7-9 over the last 16 years. How has Iowa State maybe emerged in those last 16 years? What have they done well?
KIRK
FERENTZ: Well, it's really 17 years if you study history. For a long
time -- not a long time, but it was a good series initially, a very
competitive series, and I was part of three straight that we lost back
in '81, '82 was No. 2, and No. 3. I won't walk you through the whole
thing, but that was a 15-year span, I think I read that. I haven't
counted them, but I think 15 years. And then '98 it changed. They came
in here and beat us on our field in '98, and at least my first four
years we were 0-for-4, so that wasn't much fun. Since then it's been
pretty much back and forth.
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