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Classless comments from Iowa players....

SlyCy

SlyCy

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Goes with the territory but it seems out of line to me. Save the smack talk for the field not the press. I love it when Hawkeyes get cocky...that's when they are the easiest to beat!!

``This is their Super Bowl,'' defensive tackle Mitch King said. ``They're always going to play Iowa good.''

``It's not the coach that I hate or the players, it's Iowa State,'' Iowa offensive lineman Julian Vandervelde said. ``It's the entity that they are. It's the whole rivalry. I was raised an Iowa kid, and no matter what happens, I'm probably always going to hate Iowa State no matter who they're playing and who their coach is.''

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I guess those comments don't seem out of line to me. They didn't say anything about beating ISU or about how bad ISU is this season or how good they are. All they're saying is that they hate ISU and that this is a huge rivalry. You might hear similar quotes from our players.

Edit: I just reread the quotes and I originally read it as "our" Superbowl, not "their" Superbowl. That attitude that this game is somehow more important to ISU is B.S. I still don't see anything wrong with the second quote though.
 
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Nothing irks me more than the "super bowl" comments. There is no bigger myth in Hawkdom than that one. It is a built-in excuse just in case they lose.

Anyone that has played competitive sports has to know that is BS. Is there a certain excitement around this game? Absolutely. But to think that our players magically get better and try harder for this game and not others is ridiculous. Every time they step on the field, I am confident they are doing their very best to beat the other team whether it's Iowa, UNI, or Texas.
 
Did anyone make it to the end of the article?

``It wasn't until eight minutes left in the fourth quarter when we were really able to stand around on the sidelines and joke about it a little bit and point up at the scoreboard and say, look what happened to Iowa State,'' Vandervelde said.
``That was a lot of fun for us.''


If this was a fan saying this fine, but a player??? Vandervelde is a first year starter on offensive line. Didn't he have a game to pay attention to? Even if it was 35-0. I played high school football at Central in Davenport with him. He was a sophomore on the varsity team when I was senior. Always high on himself just like this quote.
 
I guess I don't see how this is "classless." An interviewer asks them what they think about ISU and the results, and he says what's on his mind.

Could he have said something that wouldn't have make bulletin board material? Sure, and he probably should have. But I fail to see how this is "classless" - he's simply getting into the rivalry.
 
``It wasn't until eight minutes left in the fourth quarter when we were really able to stand around on the sidelines and joke about it a little bit and point up at the scoreboard and say, look what happened to Iowa State,'' Vandervelde said.
``That was a lot of fun for us.'' = CLASSLESS
 
SlyCy said:
``This is their Super Bowl,'' defensive tackle Mitch King said. ``They're always going to play Iowa good.''
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Maybe ole Mitch needs to head back to English class.

And keep talking smack but you better back it up because if you lose to ISU, THAT is going to be embarrassing.
 
Classless? :nah: (I've seen much worse from our own fans about our own team in the past 2 weeks)

Locker room material though? Sure.
 
I'm no psychiatrist but...

projection - A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which what is emotionally unacceptable in the self is unconsciously rejected and attributed (projected) to others.

Me thinks Hawks and Hawk fans are projecting a bit. Maybe this is THEIR superbowl.
 
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Let them talk and get over-confident. I'm hoping they take us lightly just like their fans will be because that's when teams are the most vulnerable. I'm curious to see if we come out with the same fire for this game considering Chizik has never been a part of it and has no Iowa ties to have that extra motivation. That is one thing Dan brought to this game.
 
cycloneworld said:
Maybe ole Mitch needs to head back to English class.

And keep talking smack but you better back it up because if you lose to ISU, THAT is going to be embarrassing.
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Silly me, and all this time I was thinking you guys were referring to his lack of manners, not his lack of education!
 
Step back for a second and think about it though. Under Mac it was our super bowl, you never saw the players play like they did against Iowa. If they had played with that kind of fire, and executed like they did in the Iowa game, Mac would still be the coach because they would have won a whole lot more games the past 10 years.
 
brianhos said:
Step back for a second and think about it though. Under Mac it was our super bowl, you never saw the players play like they did against Iowa. If they had played with that kind of fire, and executed like they did in the Iowa game, Mac would still be the coach because they would have won a whole lot more games the past 10 years.
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That's what I've always thought. Whenever ISU would play Iowa, they would look like a completely different team. I never understood how ISU could beat Iowa, but then finish the season with 2-3 more wins. Like in 2002. That game should have been Iowa's. But ISU played like no other, beat them, and kept the Hawks out of the NC game (probably).

Just my two cents.

But it'll be interesting to see how Chizik prepares them for this game.
 
Actually I don't think it has to do with any SuperBowl reference or any one coach putting 'more' emphasis on this game.

We are no longer intimidated by the UofI ... we relish the fact we won 5 in a row and want to keep the hurt coming.... the pain put on us with the 15 year 'streak' still runs deep, add that with us being able to whip up on 'em, come back from a deficit, holding a lead and winning in IC... we are no longer impressed/afraid/intimidated by the UofI or it's fans....

we KNOW we can do it, so we play with nothing to lose.

just the thoughts from a kid that grew up in CR during the 80's.

- keep.
 
SouthernHawk said:
That's what I've always thought. Whenever ISU would play Iowa, they would look like a completely different team. I never understood how ISU could beat Iowa, but then finish the season with 2-3 more wins. Like in 2002. That game should have been Iowa's. But ISU played like no other, beat them, and kept the Hawks out of the NC game (probably).

Just my two cents.

But it'll be interesting to see how Chizik prepares them for this game.
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The "Superbowl" topic is about as fresh as a Foghat concert, but here are my thoughts:

1.) Coach Mac knew the Iowa program better than any other we played each year.
2.) Coach Mac wanted to win that game as much as any other we played each year. (Maybe it would be fair to call it his Superbowl.)
3.) Iowa was generally not as good as Hawkeye fans believed.
4.) Suggesting a win over Iowa should imply an easy run through the Big 12 is laughable.
 
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