Former NW QB Shares why Cats are Besting the Hawks

okeefe4prez said:
I had to turn off the Iowa games against Michigan and Penn State late in the third quarter last year. Could you refresh my recollection about the size of lead Iowa had against them in the fourth quarter?

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NW was a better team than Iowa last year, no doubt. It was NW's year to make a BCS bowl, like KF and Iowa has done twice...but alas, they choked away double digit leads in the 4th qtr three times. If KF did that in one season, to cost Iowa a shot at the NC, you would shred KF.....but then again, you are now a NW fan so I am debating a NW fan...why? Why not just stick to NW boards where your over the top love for Fitz and hatred of Iowa and KF will fit right in.
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JHHawk said:
NW was a better team than Iowa last year, no doubt. It was NW's year to make a BCS bowl, like KF and Iowa has done twice...but alas, they choked away double digit leads in the 4th qtr three times. If KF did that in one season, to cost Iowa a shot at the NC, you would shred KF.....but then again, you are now a NW fan so I am debating a NW fan...why? Why not just stick to NW boards where your over the top love for Fitz and hatred of Iowa and KF will fit right in.
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I don't know that NU was a better team than Iowa last year. If Iowa had just run O'Keefe's freaking offense last year, they prolly had a legit shot at winning 8 or 9 games. I don't think that the team was really as lacking in talent as they showed on the field, I just think the coaching was abysmal.

I don't think either Iowa or Northwestern would have wanted anything to do with what Wisconsin brought to the table in the Big Ten Championship game last year, though. Bielema absolutely dropped the hammer. Imagine that, a coach cooking up a strategy to catch an opponent off guard in a huge game. That guy is the fruit of the Hayden Tree.
 


okeefe4prez said:
I had to turn off the Iowa games against Michigan and Penn State late in the third quarter last year. Could you refresh my recollection about the size of lead Iowa had against them in the fourth quarter?

[video=youtube;LC71N_4-zX4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC71N_4-zX4[/video]
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^^^ - Never happened. Blatantly obvious special-effects editing, probably by one of those techno-wizards who attended NwU's renowned MTS doctorate program. It's all a ruse by Fitz and his henchmen (most notably, C.J. "the slider" Bacher) to spoon-feed his guys his anti-Iowa propaganda to perpetuate his personal goal of dominance of the Hawks!

He should give it up and move on, already. Maybe take a page from KF's doctrine -- do it the right way, nothing fancy, execute and the other team will eventually lose. No need to waste valuable practice time scheming to attack your opponent.
 


seepig said:
Big 10 coordinators have been quoted this same thing the past 3 seasons....if the competitors are calling you out on being transparent...you've got coaching issues. Kurt maybe you should read the Hawkeye Nation Forum boards for some basic coaching 101 advice.
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Could you provide said quotes please? TIA.
 


tubahawk said:
The reality is KF doesn't care if other coaches see us as transparent. Right or wrong he is of the opinion that a well executed offensive play (even if known to the defense) still beats the defense.
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You are spot on here. It's really amazing that a major college football coach can think this way. Don't get me wrong. This works if you are going against inferior competition. That's not the case in at least half of Iowa's games, though.
 


FreedComanche said:
You are spot on here. It's really amazing that a major college football coach can think this way. Don't get me wrong. This works if you are going against inferior competition. That's not the case in at least half of Iowa's games, though.
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Yep, only works against the likes of MAC teams, ISU, Indiana, Purdue, Minnesota, NwU ... you know, the "inferior" opponents.:eek: (Geez, Iowa must've had some tuff schedules the past couple seasons.)
 


To think what Bacher was claiming was news is hardly true it's pretty old news. To believe some of what he said is to think that the Iowa coaching staff hasn't spent one second of watching either one of their teams film. Witch is all they ever do away from the field just about. They self evaluate themselves as much as they do the opponents. They watch film for hours and hours. Breaking down tendancies just as what are being described. It's not that Iowa didn't know how NU was going to attack. It's just Parkers style of defending. What they do with that info is what has all of us up in arms. Iowa plays that style of D because making teams drive 6 7 8 plus play drives isn't easy for everyone. Mizzu didn't beat us the last time I checked in the Orange bowl with a pretty good college qb and some quick receivers. NU has done a great job of game planning to beat Iowa at this style of play recently. Doesn't mean they can keep it up. We'll see. Everything Bacher said seems right on the money as to what happened. But it's not a surprise or news by any means.
 


okeefe4prez said:
Nothing to show? The dude is the winningest coach at his alma mater. He was offered the Michigan job. He has basically earned a lifetime appointment to a $2+ million per year job. You must have accomplished a helluva lot by 38 years of age if you think that is "nothing to show."

Ferentz had a great run. About a decade ago. When the fingerprints of guys like Bielema and Joe Philbin were on the team. And when the Big Ten was "line up and punch 'em in the mouth." Those days are past. Ferentz put together a monster run in 2008-2009 and we got a lot of bounces to make up for a lot of crap from the years prior to that run. But even in the midst of that monster run, the guy freaking lost to Fitz TWICE. AT HOME BOTH TIMES.

You can talk all you want about the relative talent on both squads when the respective coaches came in, but the fact remains that Ferentz can do some things Fitz can't. Ferentz can sign a guy like Faith Ekakitie who wants to go to NU but has too low of a GPA or ACT score to get in (but who is welcome at Iowa). Ferentz can go to a juco and pick up a guy like Brad Banks, Nathan Chandler or Marshal Yanda and plug a hole immediately with a junior rather than an underclassman (NU does not allow Juco players in unless they could have qualified as freshmen). Ferentz can park a guy like Shonn Greene at Kirkwood for a year until he can regain his eligibility (at NU, if you're gone academically, you're gone). NU actually has an academic brand that is about 1000x more valuable to them than a football team and they go to great lengths to protect it.

You can create your own little narrative about how awesome Ferentz is, and I will readily admit that he is a solid coach (albeit not a near $4 mm per year man), but when you look at the totality of the circumstances, Fitz is about 5x the coach of Ferentz.
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Show me a bcs game or title and I will be impressed. He is the top winner at nw. 50 wins? Good argument.

As mentioned your bit is old and you can see the fools who follow you and like your posts.
 




Easton said:
Show me a bcs game or title and I will be impressed. He is the top winner at nw. 50 wins? Good argument.

As mentioned your bit is old and you can see the fools who follow you and like your posts.
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No. Your bit is old. You're saying that if Ferentz resigned tomorrow and we had a choice between Mark Mangino and Pat Fitzgerald, you would want to hire Mark Mangino. Look at how KU fell apart after their Orange Bowl win. Ferentz is doing the same thing at Iowa. Well, I guess Mangino could beat Iowa State, though.
 


JonDMiller said:
It's tough to argue their approach given how excellent the defense has been most of the Parker years. For this one game, do u change who you are? I suspec t Kirk wouldn't do it. Or rather, did not.
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doesn't that just sound crazy though? "Well, we just don't match up well against this team, but we should just keep being who we are instead of making an effort to try something different." he sure didn't learn that line of thinking from Belichick.
 


This thread is so full of derp it's comical.

I'm just glad the season starts in a few days so people will have ACTUAL things to ***** about instead of more made up reasons to hate the head coach of their supposed favorite team.

Not to simplify things but it's pretty clear over KF's coaching resume at Iowa that if he has the talent to run the scheme he likes to run Iowa can compete with almost any team in the country and has proven that fact.

When he doesn't have the talent to do so things can and have gotten ugly.

KF is a conservative coach like it or not that is who he is, it has cost us games in the past and probably will in the future, on the flip side it has also allowed us to win games that we might not have been in if not for his conservative approach.

You can't have it both ways.
 


hoffahawk said:
This thread is so full of derp it's comical.

I'm just glad the season starts in a few days so people will have ACTUAL things to ***** about instead of more made up reasons to hate the head coach of their supposed favorite team.

Not to simplify things but it's pretty clear over KF's coaching resume at Iowa that if he has the talent to run the scheme he likes to run Iowa can compete with almost any team in the country and has proven that fact.

When he doesn't have the talent to do so things can and have gotten ugly.

KF is a conservative coach like it or not that is who he is, it has cost us games in the past and probably will in the future, on the flip side it has also allowed us to win games that we might not have been in if not for his conservative approach.

You can't have it both ways.
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where you been hiding man? haven't seen you in awhile. keep up with the passion!
 


okeefe4prez said:
No. Your bit is old. You're saying that if Ferentz resigned tomorrow and we had a choice between Mark Mangino and Pat Fitzgerald, you would want to hire Mark Mangino. Look at how KU fell apart after their Orange Bowl win. Ferentz is doing the same thing at Iowa. Well, I guess Mangino could beat Iowa State, though.
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This Iis one of the silliest points anyone has ever tried to push across. You want to put fitz above ferentz yet fitz hasn't gotten his team where gary barnett was able to.

Being a third or fourth place team in the division is the best fitz has been able to do in 8 yrs. His boner and it seems to have rubbed off on you, for iowa has gotten him less than his coach took same school.

Iowa will be able to find a better coach than fitz. I would prefer a coach who wants titles not revenge.
 


Easton said:
This Iis one of the silliest points anyone has ever tried to push across. You want to put fitz above ferentz yet fitz hasn't gotten his team where gary barnett was able to.

Being a third or fourth place team in the division is the best fitz has been able to do in 8 yrs. His boner and it seems to have rubbed off on you, for iowa has gotten him less than his coach took same school.

Iowa will be able to find a better coach than fitz. I would prefer a coach who wants titles not revenge.
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Barnett had two winning seasons at jNW. wouldn't say he was all that successful outside of one year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Barnett
 


JonDMiller said:
There is a difference between some thinkning he is trying to lose and disagreeing with some of the things he does.
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There's also a difference between thinking he is trying to lose, and recognizing that sometimes it appears that he doesn't care if he wins.
 


okeefe4prez said:
No. Your bit is old. You're saying that if Ferentz resigned tomorrow and we had a choice between Mark Mangino and Pat Fitzgerald, you would want to hire Mark Mangino. Look at how KU fell apart after their Orange Bowl win. Ferentz is doing the same thing at Iowa. Well, I guess Mangino could beat Iowa State, though.
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You can't compare a situation that has happened to one that might. If Fitz did leave NW, there's a pretty good chance their next coach wouldn't be as into the job as he is. If Nebraska and Michigan can hire the wrong coach, Northwestern sure as hell can.
 








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