Recent content by shonblatt

As was predicted before the recent Big Ten expansion, wins are now harder to come by. This Iowa team is better than both of the last two Iowa teams that won the Big Ten West. This team is a couple bad bounces away from the playoff.

What are those?

You can't judge a whole lot based on this level of competition, but what's clear already is, they'll play way better D. And even if the "pace of play" is slower, there'll be an intensity that makes the team an entertaining watch.

You'd think it has to be. Porous D, undisciplined, etc. This is on the coach.

It's still bizarre to watch Wisconsin play such sloppy and undisciplined football.

I expected to lose by 30 today. And had Gronowski not gotten hurt, we win that game.

I thought after his freshman year that Nwankpa was going to be a superstar. Thud.

The problem isn't all McNamara, the problem is our OL is embarrassingly terrible at pass blocking. All 3 of those second half turnovers were because Cade had no time. Our OL took a huge step backward after Tim Polasek left, and our offense has struggled to score ever since.

That was a pointless delay, and the announcers were wrong about all of that time nonsense. There were 40.1 seconds left at inbound, and 37.2 when the shot was released. 2.9 of the 3.0.second left on the shot clock.

Nah. There's not REALLY anything on the line when winning gets you to 8-4 and a date against one of two teams that already slaughtered us 6 weeks ago. We dodged another embarrassing loss next week. A west title doesn't mean a whole lot when all the teams have at least 4 losses. Losing to...

If DeJean plays the whole game, we win. It's really that simple. His replacement got burned twice for TDs. That should have been a close game where our D took over late and we won by 7. Them's the breaks.

Iowa and Purdue win out, and tie for the west crown at 6-3. Iowa has the tiebreaker. IL and MN split the last two and finish 5-4.

That wasn't a cute call, it was a jet sweep blown up by Johnson being in the wrong place.

Don't most sport parents believe their kid should be starting? I figure this allows them to save face a little bit, who wants to admit they aren't good enough to play ahead of below average starters? I've rooted for the kid since day one because, well - mostly because he has an awesome name, and...

Brian knows that he's unpopular and that he's mostly handcuffed by his dad's schemes. Leaving for a place they recruit better athletes would be tempting. Get out of his dad's shadow, see what he can do. Fail and he could go be an OL coach somewhere or back to the NFL. Then Kirk can promote KOK...