Chizik may not be a good game day coach, but how many players of his were arrested during his time at ISU?
You are taking one blemish and trying to cast a pretty big shadow with it, sir. It's not always easy to tell how a kid will react once they go to college. Not to mention, the guy has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars back to the hospital in Iowa City.
I have an honest question for Hawk fans:
Why sit idle with Ferentz, are you ok with being 2nd fiddle in the Big Ten and mostly going to non-BCS bowls?
I would think as a fan base, you'd start to want more after 10 years....beating THE Ohio State and going to play a BCS bowl? Or is being an 8-9 win team the best that can be expected?
Please don't fly off the handle, honest question.
I'd say that's an extremely fair question. Some days, I wonder that myself, to be truthful, but as others have said, there aren't many, if any, coaches out there that understand what it takes to constantly be a winner at Iowa. Not to mention being a perennial powerhouse, I just don't think is possible at Iowa. You can point your finger at Nebraska earlier this decade and in the 90's, but that is likely to never happen again, with the change in scholarship rules and having to play the Texas schools every year, instead of Oklahoma, one okay school, and a bunch of patsies on your way to a 9+ win season.
How many times have your coaches been given a restraining order from their wives for domestic abuse?
I think this was an unnecessary shot at McCarney. Lest you forget that he was on the Iowa staff at one point too.
That's great-- now Iowa City can go ahead and build that new jail. They'll be sure to get plenty of use out of it!
Just like ISU can go ahead and add onto their football trophy case, they'll lower Iowa's unemployment rate by 1, as they'll need to hire someone to clean all the dust out of it!
See how easy that was? The act you are trying to pull brings "beating a dead horse" to a whole new level.
To round this out, I'm fairly happy with where things are headed. Iowa had a successful season last year, should be set up to be fairly successful this year, and is on the brink of a very successful recruiting class. A class that appears to be a group of very solid kids, instead of prima donnas that littered the 05 class. Some of them could very well turn into one, but from everything I've read in the premium info, they appear to be good kids.
