This article series (alternatively titled: Everyone Else was Better at Football: ISU Assistants that Headed to Greener Pastures) will go from Coach Majors first year, 1968, to Rhoads’ last bowl season of 2012.
Before I get started, I want to draw attention to three former Cyclone football related individuals from before the Majors era.
Rod Rust is a three year letter winner at Iowa State, 1947-1949, and a long time and successful assistant coach in the NFL. He was named head coach of the Patriots in 1990, and to date, the 1990 season is the least good in franchise history.