In memoriam of Brian Ferentz as Iowa's OC
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It was a huge game for their fans today. They played Illinois, which to their fans, is an in-state rival.
It was last week and he broke his hand. I guess he's got some serious anger issues
Thanks for the summary. My ISU friends were pretty pumped last night, rightfully so. Wish I would have meet them out for the 11 am games, but I had too much going on at the home front and only managed to watch the Hawks.
What are expectations going forward now? All off season I had said ISU was a Bowl team and it looks like I was right. I think ISU could easily finish out with 4 wins.
Got a personal life and family obligations that interferes at times. I’ll make 6 of the 7 home games this year, but this weekend was always a no go for me.
Gotcha. Better off for the Iowa fans that didn't go so they could watch the ISU game
But I didn’t watch any of it outside after the Hawk game was over.
You still think ISU wins 5 games? I think they can get to 7 now. I have always been a believer in CMC that he could get this team to a Bowl game. Why have you doubted him?
Well that was stupid on your part. Yeah I'll stand by 5-7, think this team is still a year away. I do agree with you though that CMC is an elite coach
I have no idea, honestly. Do we have a QB controversy now (Christ, I hope not)? Did we fundamentally change our offense (how did we go from the Texas s***show at full strength to beating OU in Norman with injuries to starters in both sides)? There's more winnable games on the schedule -- Kansas and Baylor are still the two obvious must-wins. The thing I don't like from here on out is that multiple games in the "winnable" category are away games -- WVU (who looks good), TT (who looks okay-ish), KSU (who doesn't look that good) all away. Home is TCU (who looks good) and OSU (who looks good). Our options are either taking another away game W, or staging a big upset at home for win 6.
I think the fact does remain that after Texas, many fans had wrote off the idea of going to a bowl, but beating OU has actually put us back on track (assuming most people saw 3-1 going into Norman, followed by a loss there). For that to happen, laying an egg against the easy teams cannot occur, and they have to continue doing what they did in Norman. Yesterday, they played a full 4 quarters, the play-calling and coaching decisions were good (didn't get too conservative/play to not lose at the end), the players executed at a high level, all the parts and pieces of a complete team and a complete game were there -- even without a starting LB and a starting QB. The question now is how well they can replicate this performance in the future.
82nd in yards per play....not good, but better than last year. Add to that a 1st year starting QB and Iowa losing its two senior starting OTs and it's not difficult to see why the offense has struggled at times. Play calling has actually been pretty good and the concepts in the passing game are worlds better than previous years. I'm getting a 2008 vibe from this year's team and think they will finish strong. Lots of young players on offense gaining more confidence and experience by the week.
More like you only play bad teams so far. Wisky and OSU are only reasonably tough games left. Kirk will leap frog one team to pick of one of the aforementioned teams, so if you finish worse than 5-1, Kirk peed it down his leg.
Breck got something right.
I hope he makes it that long. A lot of pitchforks and torches being wielded already.
I'm surprised Mashup isn't here yet, I know the other trolls are mad we won but he was rooting for us