I am. Brian Ferentz should be Moon Family Offensive Coordinator for Life.
In memoriam of Brian Ferentz as Iowa's OC
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Just a down year in CFB as a whole I believe or maybe the transfer portal has watered things down some. Big 12 is down with Baylor and TCU both having rough years and the Big 10 West is the worst it has ever been and that is saying something.
True, but Michigan still has to play Penn State and Ohio State, Georgia still has 3 ranked teams in Missouri, Ol Miss and Tennessee, while EIU has NW, Nebraska, Rutgers and Illinois. Two schools are hitting the difficult part of their schedule while EIU's difficult part is behind them.
Every power 5 conference other than pac 12 has been underwhelming really. They went out with a bang
Okay so that might be a factor this year. Can you explain each of the 20 years prior to that?
Those were just 2 because they're ranked so high. There's a lot of weak schedules though
The fact that Iowa had to play ISU and ISU had to play Iowa?
Agree.
The possible downside of this move within the small coaching fraternity is that she’ll be known as an AD who will go around you and fire members of your staff. While we see that it was merited, it would be interesting to see what other head coaches think about it.
Ok well even if the #1-#64 SoS's were comprised solely of P5 programs, which they're not, Iowa's SoS would still be in the top-half 5 out of the last 7 seasons. Broader point remains, saying Iowa consistently plays one of the weakest schedules in the country isn't backed up by the numbers.
Nearly every conference is two-three very good teams and then a bunch of average teams.
The exception being the Pac 12 that has multiple good teams and then a bunch of capable teams. Which is of course, fitting since they're done after this season.
The resurrection of the Pac 12 makes all this realignment even more stupid than it was before. Washington/Oregon played the game of the year so far and the Pac 12 is a very deep conference this year. Wish it wasn't going away.
Iowa has not been good at winning against Top 25 teams -- something like 3-18 since 2016. A blow out win over Ohio State has been it's best win in seven years
An Iowa fan once told me that Iowa State would not do well playing in the B1g Ten West because Iowa State can not beat Iowa on a consistent basis.
If any Iowa fan agrees with that statement, than it follows that Iowa is not close -- even with serviceable offense -- to being a Top Tier National team because they cannot beat Top 25 teams consistently
Not an excuse, it was a reason!
LOL, my printing sarcasm isn't as good as my spoken word sarcasm, but that post was tongue in cheek. However, Iowa and the Wilson ball is clearly a thing and it shouldn't be at this point.
Iowa has definitely struggled when they play the better teams. You have to score some points to beat those teams. Also though they've done really well for most part in same period when they play equal level teams to below them. That's not easy also. Iowa state on other ends has upset some good teams and then lost to teams they should definitely of beaten. I think either is equally infuriating because we all want to win them all of course