All Iowa Football Team---Post Bowl Edition
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Lombardi is so bad lol. I don't mean to be rude, but does anyone else even think he is a D1 QB for any other team? I've watched 3 of his games now and I can't believe he got a scholarship
I'm going back through the QBs in the KF tenure and really outside of Christenson and maybe Kyle McCann can't think of anyone else that truly deserved to be benched. Rudock was OK, but obviously CJB was more of a game changer so that could have been another one that should have happened sooner.
Iowa QBs by year under KF going back to 2001.
2001 - Kyle McCann (Brad Banks was the backup and very green so not sure if he was ready to be the full time starter yet).
2002 - Brad Banks
2003 - Nathan Chandler
2004-2006 - Drew Tate
2007 - Jake Christenson
2008 - Jake Christenson/Ricky Stanzi
2009-2010 - Ricky Stanzi
2011-2012 - James Vandenberg
2013-2014 - Jake Rudock
2015-2016 - CJB
2017-2019 - Stanley
He's got great size and that's about it. He's not P5 starter material at all.
Do we really know Wisconsin is decent? They’ve played one game.
We have no idea whether Wisconsin is good or not.. They played a putrid Illinois team and that's it.
You can at least think that they are pretty good. They returned a fair amount from a good team.
Let’s analyze Wisconsin in general. They usually do well because they play in the big ten west. They pile up the wins there and make the big ten championship where they quite often get prison raped by the East and then go play in a bowl against the 3-4 pick of another conference because the other conferences have teams in the playoffs. They are a decent team, but their schedule doesn’t tell you much.
There's a reason why neither in-state school offered him as a QB. He'd potentially be a really good LB.
Yikes! Wisconsin is a very solid team that is usually in the top 15 if not top 10. This is a really bad take.
Since 2013 (when east/west started) Wisconsin is 0-3 in title games losing by an average of 28.
They've also won a Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl and lost the Rose Bowl by 1 point last year. They are really good and a very solid program despite three coaching changes in the last 10 years.
Wisconsin may not be on the level of Ohio State, but they're certainly only one step below them. In 2017 they were a play away from beating tOSU and making the playoff. And because they don't have a name like Ohio State or Michigan, they're rarely overrated.
Does it help Wisconsin that they get to play in the Big 10 West? Yes. If they'd have to play tOSU, Penn State, and Michigan every single year, they might not have had some of those 10/11 win seasons in a row, but they are certainly a consistently solid football team.
That is what amazes me the most. There are not many programs that can plug in new coaches like that and sustain the type of success Wisconsin has.
How different have the coaching changes been? Alvarez to Burt was a sidestep (and most reports are that Burt left because Alvarez couldn't let go and was next thing to still running the team). I'm not sure if Chryst has connections but Burt was a change in name only for the most part.
I agree, but it does help to be the only P5 program in a state that is almost double the population of Iowa.