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    Chizik vs. Ferentz...discipline comparison

    I think it is a little to early to judge Chizik. There have been a few minor incidents with marginal players. It will be interesting to see how he handles a situation when a starter gets in trouble. I am very confident that he will not allow legal problems and discpline issues to take his team...
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    Interesting read on Iowa football outlook...

    I think it is a stretch to say Iowa improved. They won some games but if you breakdown the results they were un-impressive wins against bad teams. Nov. 17 L - total meltdown against WMU Nov. 10 W - beat a bad Minny team 21-16, outgained 315 to 296 Nov. 3 W - beat Northwestern 28-17...
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    Huge Weakness for ISU

    All that I can say is that you are certainly living up to your name. If you think the women were boring, what did you think of the men?
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    ISU vs. Mizzu postgame thread

    I see a lot of posts about how we could have used Jiri in OT yet he did not start the first OT. Thompson did. Jiri came in after about 2 minutes and then fouled out. Rashon did not start the second OT. I do not understand that coaching. We were 20-51 on 2's and 5-20 on 3's. We took too many...
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    ISU fans calling the Jon Miller show

    I am not sure this is completely a Cyclone vs Hawkeye issue. From my perspective, there are 2 problems. First, Jon comes off a little smug and arrogant. That is not enjoyable. Secondly, it is really just plain boring. To host by yourself is a huge task. Deace had the ability to pull it...
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    IOWA VS IOWA STATE BY POSITION

    I agree with most of what you said except that we do not use the FB much. Catlett caught 21 passes last year making him 5th on the team. Most of them that I remember he was lined up as a FB/HB. This really was an important position for us. Barkema caught only 18 passes. Perhaps with better...
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    Why is everyone so surprised Iowa got beat by Western Michigan?

    I was listening to Marty & Miller last night and Miller made a big deal about how he did not see the Iowa loss coming. The Hawk message boards and media all seem shocked that Iowa could lose to WMU. It seems to me that there is a lot of underestimation of just how bad Iowa was this year. In my...
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    The off guard position

    I disagree. While not having Lucca and Wesley definitely hurts, the biggest problem with this team is that we do not have a point guard. This was the same problem as last year. Garret shows some promise but makes a lot of freshmen mistakes. I like Peterson but he is not a Big 12 point guard...
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    Christian Graham

    I think the problem with Franklin is that he is 6'3" and weighs 169 lbs. He just does not have the strength to compete at this level yet. In scrolling down the roster, he is the lightest guy on the team. Even Euseph Messiah weighs more at 5'10" and 171 lbs.
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    toddlers at ISU football games ???

    We took our 4 year old daughter to 2 games last year and one game this year. We had a sticker activity book last year that worked well. We brought crayons and a coloring book this year. We actually ate at the game which worked well because it gave her something to do. It is amazing how long...
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    6-6 May not do it for Hawkeyes bowl hopes

    You seem to be obsessed with telling ISU fans what to do.
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    Do you see more than 2 wins next year.

    How can you say that Nebraska will be back? Nobody has any idea who their coach will be. Iowa is a complete and total disaster this year. Those are both winnable games next year.
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    Only criticism: offensive play calling

    I agree we did a nice job of shortening the game in the first half but a few more passes would have been nice...
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    Only criticism: offensive play calling

    Or a tight end. I think we threw to Barkema once and that was in the 4th quarter after it was 17-7.
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    Only criticism: offensive play calling

    That was a terrific effort today. Chizik and his staff did a great job of getting us ready after the thrashing by Texas. This is one of those games that we will always remember as we "should have won." I do not want to come off sounding like a Hawkeye (criticize O'Keefe) but I thought we tried...
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    Leaving 5 minutes early

    Why is it that we have to have stupid posts after every home game being critical of our fans? The fans were very good today.
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    A question...

    How about the fact that during that 5-7 year run we were really only an average football team and the slip has not been as dramatic as it seems. I think the 2000 and 2001 teams where pretty good teams. In 2002, we lost 6 of our last 7 games and still went to a bowl. In 2004, we needed a long...
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    Response from KCCI's News Director about kids throwing debris from bridge

    Saw in another post the discussion of the boys throwing stuff off the bridge. After watching the story on the evening news, I sent an e-mail to KCCI's news director about how disgusted I was that their crew just stood there and watched. Here is the response I got the next day. I guess his...
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    Penality on final play

    I assume it was holding. Iowa was holding all over the place on that last play.
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    What has happened to our football program?

    We were not very good in 2004 or 2005 either. The Big 12 North has been horrible the last few years. A good team in 2005 would have won 9 or 10 games. We lost to Baylor at home that year. Go back and look at who we beat in 04 and 05, very unimpressive.