Haha, Iowa lost to Virginia Tech, Nebraska, and Purdue
How in the world do they think beating Minnesota and Illinois make up for that? At least last year Iowa beat 4 ranked teams. This year one. Iowa has ONE big 10 win vs a team in their conference with a winning record.
At the end of the day Iowa's best win is against Wisconsin in Iowa City. Nothing that special. What a snooze of a season. I feel bad for their fans having to watch losses and meaningless wins all season long.
I have no idea why Fran scheduled so lightly. He had a TON of returning players this year.
McCabe
Marble
White
Basabe
Ogelsby
Olesani
May
Thats seven returning players. Why the heck do you need to avoid people with that kind of experience unless you dont have the talent... which means..... you aren't that good.
Iowa was the 298th most experienced team in the country this year, so they really didn't have much experience returning. Plus it's not like anyone of those guys had experienced a lot of winning, which Fran said was his purpose for the schedule.