Mea Culpa

JonDMiller

JonDMiller

Publisher/Founder
The back and forth of the last few days is fruitless and not something I want to keep engaging in.

While the extreme segment of the Iowa fan base that is calling for Kirk's head gets my blood boiling, after having gone back over some of the posts and comments I have made the last two days, I do think I have been guilty of some of the things I have criticized others for, mostly making extremes out of a minority situation...I think that's also called a mountain out of a molehill or the tail wagging the dog.

That took my focus away from the issues at hand with this year's team (that I wrote about immediately after the game) and put my focus on a small number of people who don't deserve that much attention. I can also understand how some of these comments have alienated some folks who don't share those extreme opinions, but also felt some collateral damage.

Obviously, all is not right in the football program and most of the criticisms that I have come across on the boards are fair, even if I might have worded them differently ;)

I let the extremists cloud my better judgement with a few of my comments and I am probably more ticked off about that than anything from Saturday.

Until this season has played out, I am going to refrain from any such program macro conversations, pro or con, and comment on the games and circumstances at hand as they relate to this season...once the season is over, my approach will shift to the macro as we will be able to add this year's performance in its entirety to the discussion.
 






JonDMiller said:
The back and forth of the last few days is fruitless and not something I want to keep engaging in.

While the extreme segment of the Iowa fan base that is calling for Kirk's head gets my blood boiling, after having gone back over some of the posts and comments I have made the last two days, I do think I have been guilty of some of the things I have criticized others for, mostly making extremes out of a minority situation...I think that's also called a mountain out of a molehill or the tail wagging the dog.

That took my focus away from the issues at hand with this year's team (that I wrote about immediately after the game) and put my focus on a small number of people who don't deserve that much attention. I can also understand how some of these comments have alienated some folks who don't share those extreme opinions, but also felt some collateral damage.

Obviously, all is not right in the football program and most of the criticisms that I have come across on the boards are fair, even if I might have worded them differently ;)

I let the extremists cloud my better judgement with a few of my comments and I am probably more ticked off about that than anything from Saturday.

Until this season has played out, I am going to refrain from any such program macro conversations, pro or con, and comment on the games and circumstances at hand as they relate to this season...once the season is over, my approach will shift to the macro as we will be able to add this year's performance in its entirety to the discussion.
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That's great, but who the heck is Mea Culpa?! Is that a recruit or something?;)
 








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I'm sorry but I don't get this line of thinking.
We've had 13 years to accumulate our data, to make pretty damn educated opinions, criticisms and observations.

If we boil the current "issues" down to the real nitty-gritty it would reveal a staff that is unwilling or unable to adapt to personnel. Certainly not on a game to game basis and quite frequently from season to season.

Most of us knew Iowa would be outmanned on the D this season, not a surprise, but to continue to "stay the course" is lunacy. Asking Tom freakin' Nardo to do what a Christian Ballard or Adrian Clayborn did is just simply ignorant. Asking a 255lb DE to "set the edge & contain" against 320lb tackles with TE's & RB's chipping is asinine. Asking LB's to cover slot WR's is blatant negligence. NONE of this is New & I, nor anyone else needs another set of 4 games to make these statements.

The defense is outmanned. OK, I get it. I have no delusions that we re-load like Ohio St or Alabama, I understand we don't always have the horses. So instead of asking overmatched players, that are working their ***** off, to do what they just aren't capable of is just poor management. Its like asking your dentist to perform your lasik procedure.
 




treychase said:
I'm sorry but I don't get this line of thinking.
We've had 13 years to accumulate our data, to make pretty damn educated opinions, criticisms and observations.

If we boil the current "issues" down to the real nitty-gritty it would reveal a staff that is unwilling or unable to adapt to personnel. Certainly not on a game to game basis and quite frequently from season to season.

Most of us knew Iowa would be outmanned on the D this season, not a surprise, but to continue to "stay the course" is lunacy. Asking Tom freakin' Nardo to do what a Christian Ballard or Adrian Clayborn did is just simply ignorant. Asking a 255lb DE to "set the edge & contain" against 320lb tackles with TE's & RB's chipping is asinine. Asking LB's to cover slot WR's is blatant negligence. NONE of this is New & I, nor anyone else needs another set of 4 games to make these statements.

The defense is outmanned. OK, I get it. I have no delusions that we re-load like Ohio St or Alabama, I understand we don't always have the horses. So instead of asking overmatched players, that are working their ***** off, to do what they just aren't capable of is just poor management. Its like asking your dentist to perform your lasik procedure.
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unwilling or unable to adapt to personnel is the EXACT OPPOSITE thing KF and co. do. Name another program with as many walk-on or no name NFL ers??
 


Nice to see all is almost righted back in HN. My neck is getting sore from trying to keep up following the volleys back and forth and trying to decipher who's calling out who. (and why the Boss keeps trying to go on hiatus?)

Based on field performance thus far this season, it will not matter what the final record is, this debate will continue on well into the off season. We were never going to be NC 's this year, and for at least another week we still have a shot at B1G champs and a Rose Bowl bid (as slim as it may seem). There will always be needs to be addressed regardless of who the HC/OC/DC/AD/QB/LB/DB is....and that is what sells the threads.
 




CAARHawk said:
It has got to be hard to run a site and resist getting sucked into the muck.
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I wouldn't call it muck. It's a message board and I love it.

I was telling someone today that the last few days on the boards were wearing me out a bit...BUT that if I didn't have this job, I'd still be on message boards a few hours a day because I love the instant interaction.

There are times where I do not adhere to my own advice, such as walking away from the keyboard. However, most of the time I do. I may have close to 10,000 posts on this site, but I bet I have 20,000 posts that I typed, then thought better of it and hit delete ;)

I am a fan at heart, like everyone else...and at times that shows through...other times I wish it would show through more, other times less.

But I pretty much just write what I am thinking most of the time, which I hope is for the good far more often than it is for the bad. But there are times, it's on the bad side ;)
 






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