Recent content by simohawk

Well, I think it's incredible that this first airing of the Pony Excess shows right after the Heisman was awarded to a kid whose father was caught shopping him around. SMU got the death penalty 23 years ago... Cam Newton got the Heisman tonight...in a year where a previous winner was forced to...

What is scarier: the fact that the formula needed to be recalculated due to human error or the fact that the outcome of the Western Illinois-Appalachian State game had an impact on Nebraska, Alabama, Boise State, and LSU????

I think everyone agrees this is a bad decision by the NCAA with obvious implications that it will lead to paying players. Here are two secondary effects: 1) Coaches salaries, paid from boosters money, will become diluted with the competition from players salaries. This might be good or bad...

With the exception of the 2009 Ohio State game, we have not lost to a more talented team since Michigan in 2006. And we've beaten one team (PSU 2008) with more talent than us during that time. I think that says a lot.

I'm pretty sure that this play was invented by the Iowa Hawkeyes! I read a book on the history of Iowa football and there was a time when, maybe Aubrey Devine, disputed the spot of the ball. He was yelling at the officials, asked the center for the ball, and then told the officials he would...

The key to the game, in my opinion, will be when Iowa gets up early to STAY AGGRESSIVE! NW, more than any other team on our schedule, hangs around waiting...unfortunately, our staff has had the tendency to allow weaker opponents to hang around unnecessarily. To me, this more than anything...

Not to mention leaving early for the NFL, costing himself a Heisman and the Hawkeyenation a National Championship...

They only key injury that impacts this game is Pat Fitzgerald's broken leg 15 years ago.

I think Millen does a good job, but this comment wasn't accurate. However, he's only ever done 3 Iowa games and Vandy played in the first. The other was Wisconsin where Ricky kept throwing the ball too far into the sideline. And, in fairness, there were some bad deep throws by Ricky in the...

Michigan has Wisconsin snake-bitten the way Ohio State has Iowa snake-bitten. Most years (with the exception of the Rich Rod years) Michigan has more talent than Wisconsin, but even in the years where they don't they seem to give Wisconsin all kinds of trouble. I think the chances of Wisconsin...

Tony's blocking was head and shoulders above Dallas's blocking. However, Moeaki rarely, if ever, broke a tackle. Dallas is the best YAC player at Iowa ever. The gap in blocking ability is huge in Tony's favor, but is dwarfed by the run after catch gap in favor of Dallas. Watch the clip of...

The big thing not mentioned in that stat is that many of those games had no business being close games, either way.

Here are the 8 losses: 2008 (9-4) 21-20 loss to a 9-4 Pitt team 22-17 loss to a 9-4 Northwestern team 16-13 loss to a 9-4 Michigan State team 27-24 loss to a 5-7 Illinois team 2009 (11-2) 17-10 loss to an 8-5 Northwestern team 27-24 loss to an 11-2 Ohio State team 2010 (5-2) 34-27 loss to a...

JHHawk--you're absolutely, right, I missed the 2003 Michigan team in my post as one of the more talented teams that we actually did defeat. I knew I would miss a team or two or have debate on some, but for the over all sentiment I stand by it.

I will accept some heat on this statement. It didn't come out like I meant. When I typed it I was especially thinking against good Michigan and Ohio State teams and forgot that as part of my quote. Didn't mean to imply Hayden was not a good coach, just meant to say that with Hayden's style we...