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You also have to give credit to the defensive line for putting enough pressure on the QB to have to unload the ball or take a sack. Any...

Kirk is not an offensive strategy guy. He's schemed his entire team to play defensive football. The overall strategy was to make the...

Exactly. And the programs that we've played against in the conference forever knew that better then everyone. Iowa's 'style' and lack of...

Same. Kirk takes the Michigan job in 2010, or whatever it was? .600 is probably fair. But with what he's done here, it shouldn't be a...

I also think HOF voters can and should take into account where a coach got his wins and losses. 60% win percentage at Iowa, especially...

I like this move. He really does deserve to be in and depending on how he wraps up his career he may or may not be above the old 60%...

Surprised the article does not mention KF as he is right near that line and is the most tenured coach in college football. With this...

Even BM doesn't want Iowa to play Drake, he's said as much.

Its a first year coach with a completely revamped roster. A light non-con seems prudent. Fran never scheduled a tough non-con. Moving...

^^^^Ding, ding, ding. Playing Drake at Wells would check so many boxes. My runner up would be Creighton.

Bucknell at least has tournament history and is typically in the low 200's in Ken Pom most years. IMO, this is much better than the...

Would prefer it to be Duke, North Carolina, or Kansas............ just to make it fun! It will be a good practice game I guess.

French city of Des Moines, Wells Fargo Arena...

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I have to believe the collectives are smart enough to have eligibility clauses. I would also have performance and participation...