Recent content by iowamike21

While Iowa and others are waiting to be judged worthy, we can rest easy knowing that NCAA wisdom and fairness have struck again. While Iowa and others fret over the naunces of the whole body of work we are repeatedly told is all-important, mighty Liberty has secured a spot in the NCAA tournament...

What Iowa team are you referring to that has "played rather poorly away from Carver"? The chess team? Men's basketball lost in the last 11 seconds @ Minn, lost by 4 @ Nebraska, lost in OT @ Purdue, lost in double OT @ Wisconsin...won @ NW and @ PSU (ask Michigan how they enjoyed their visit to...

We keep hearing that what you do in your conference doesn't matter to the selection committee. OK. Then why do winners of conf. tourneys get automatic bids? If it's about the whole body of work, then what logic is it that says winning 3 or 4 games in a conf. tourney trumps the previous 30 games...

It might be an interesting and effective surprise for Iowa, at least part of the time, to use a box-and-one vs. Indiana. May and Clemmons could take turns as the one hounding Oladipo. The two on top could be Marble and Olesani. Try to shoot 3s over that. Under, we'd have White and Woodbury...

Davis wants speed, so Jordan Cotton, one of Iowa's fastest players, doesn't get a single touch against Nebraska. No KO returns. One pass thrown his way, which was incomplete (and should have been pass interference). Thanks for stopping by, Jordan. This is just one more in an almost unending...

Coaches are supposed to put players in situations to maximize their individual skills and to accentuate offensive and defensive talents as team. Iowa's coaches were monumental failures at both this season, and for most other seasons, to be honest. They took a good, not great, but good Big Ten...

The Iowa players did their part, but the coaches pulled the rug out from under them again. The TV announcers were about to jump out of the booth over the predictable, conservative play calling that Iowa fans have been complaining about for years. I don't know how the coaching staff can look...

OP, you are correct. To use a baseball analogy, V'berg was a .260 hitter last year, so the new coach decides he knows how to "fix" him so he'll hit .300. In the process, he screws the kid up so bad he ends up hitting .150. I have no doubt this is what has happened. The young man was overrated...

Nebraska -- 59 Iowa -- (-7) VBG takes all Iowa snaps. 10,000 Nebraska fans and an ABC national TV audience mock the Hawkeye faithful. It's one of the bleakest afternoons in the history of a stadium that has seen more than its share. But the good news is, it's only a game, and it all pays the...

Iowa football is back in the Lauterbur era, and the scoreboard in Ann Arbor will be, too: Michigan - 59 Iowa - 7 And unless JVB gets hurt, he takes every snap. But then Grandpa Ferentz reminds everyone, it's only a game.

CJF hasn't broken a single tackle all year. He goes down like a rag doll. No hands. No speed or quickness. He's shown no serious athletic ability of any kind. He's playing because he's big, but he doesn't know how to use his size, his ONLY asset, to his advantage. He has no business on a D-1...

When it comes to Iowa football, in the wake of the latest humiliation at Indiana, all I can do is offer these quotes and facts. Do with them as you will: Dan Gable: * “If it doesn't tear your guts out to lose, there's no meaning. And without meaning, where's the incentive to win?" * “I never...

Everyone is correct to be leary of Iowa's D-line coming into the season. The facts are clear. But there is reason to be at least cautiously optimistic. The key to the season overall is staying healthy. If the football gods can allow that, then Iowa, given the weak schedule, could surprise with...

In 1961,Iowa’s last winning season (5-4) until 1981, Iowa’s non-con opponents were Cal,USC, and Notre Dame. In 1962 (4-5): Oregon St., USC, and Notre Dame. It was like that throughout the 60s the 70s and the 80s with the likes of Washington, Washington St., NC State, Miami (FL), Arizona...

1) All four seniors, Gatens, Brommer, Cartwright and Archie, start and play at least 3 minutes before some are subbed out; 2) Iowa pounds Northwestern with great defense, great hustle, great shooting and a crazy crowd; 3) All four seniors play the final few minutes and each one is subbed out...