Iowa Football Recruiting
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So now it is a good thing to get invited to a bowl over your paygrade and get the **** kicked out of you?
Iowa Fans: "Oregon didn't deserve to be in a NY6 Bowl."
Iowa State: "Well what about when Iowa got beat down by Stanford?"
Iowa Fans: "Well, I mean, Christian McCaffery was like way too good you know? It just wasn't fair."
I always get a chuckle when I stop by this thread.
The idiocy of the Hok fan base will never cease to amaze me. But then again, remember this is a fan base that embraces players that tell them to "Suck a fat one!"
So the current arguments are - "ISU is building a better program than ToE but that doesn't matter because CMC can't recruit 4 stars" and the back up argument is "Iowa is better because we get beat by better teams in bowl games?"
It is tempting to get frustrated with this stupidity but I am glad to see it. Would hate to see that fan base evolve and become rational, I would miss the entertainment.
The idiocy of the Hok fan base will never cease to amaze me. But then again, remember this is a fan base that embraces players that tell them to "Suck a fat one!"
So the current arguments are - "ISU is building a better program than ToE but that doesn't matter because CMC can't recruit 4 stars" and the back up argument is "Iowa is better because we get beat by better teams in bowl games?"
It is tempting to get frustrated with this stupidity but I am glad to see it. Would hate to see that fan base evolve and become rational, I would miss the entertainment.
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I just don’t understand where the CMC is building a better program than Iowa is coming from. I mean come on it’s only been a few years. Get a bigger sample size before you can make that a legitimate take.
CMC is building a program that can regularly compete for Big 12 Titles. With that comes surpassing Iowa, however that's going to obviously take more time. Beating Iowa consistently will help that come to fruition, however it hasn't happened yet. People forget Kirk lost his first 4 games to Iowa State before figuring things out.
ISU has really competed for the big 12 just this year? I mean if you count the 2018 season as competing then you have to admit that Iowa competes for big 10 championships most years, right? I just don’t see ISU consistently beating Iowa, I think the rivalry being 5-5 in the next 10 years is the most likely thing to happen, which would be good for both programs imo.
2 years ago we were a game away from playing in the title game. 3 years ago we were two games away. This year we made it.
Someone who doesn’t have the last name Ferentz. Also, the staff will most likely look very different in 10 years. Parker likely won’t be the defensive coordinator, O’Keefe won’t be in IC, and KF won’t be at the helm.
Going just by the last 20 years, things are going to swing back in Iowa States favor. I'd guess 3, 4 or 5 wins at most in a row before leveling out and going back and forth for some years.
I can play this. Iowa was a 2 point conversion away from potentially playing in the title game in 2019 and was 5 points away from reaching it this year.
You'd be 100% correct too. I'm not arguing that Iowa doesn't compete to play for Big 10 titles.
My guess would be one of these guys: Parker, Woods, Mark or Bob Stoops, maybe Klieman?
My argument was saying that Campbell's #1 priority is getting ISU to a level where we can consistently compete to play in the conference championship game. It's hard for a team like Iowa State or even Iowa to consistently play in the game, so all you can do is put yourself in contention and then roll the ball out there.
Iowa is always right there at the top and the last few years Iowa State has been too.
If you remember, right away I said ISU got shafted with this NY6 matchup and I would have been pissed if I were an ISU fan. It isn't ISU fault they had a great season during COVID and the cards fell where they were and they played Oregon. At the same time you can't sit there and say that Oregon was a NY6 worthy team, because they weren't. It was a joke they made a NY6 game, and I think we all know that.