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This is why I don't get in the prognostication business when it comes to Iowa hoops. Iowa's quality of depth has always been an issue so one major injury handicaps this team alot. 3 players down with injuries is a major blow. And 2 of them are out for the season. At full strength Iowa can...

Of course they are. But here they didnt even pretend to put a better matchup on the field.

This was the biggest mismatch in the bowl season. The only reason ISU is there is because their fans travel. Total money grab rather than putting the best matchup on the field. ISU has no wins against winning teams all year. Kansas State would have put up a better fight.

It isn't a guarantee that the entire roster returns. We lose Kriener and Evelyn to graduation. It is possible Weiskamp and Garza take a hard look at the NBA. We also don't know how Bohannon's recovery will go with this hip surgery and whenever Nunge comes back he won't have played any...

Just looked at the remaining schedule and the conference schedule in 18 games has a total opponent record of 146-67 to this point. They have 7 games against teams currently ranked in the polls. That could go up or down as the season unfolds. Traditionally horrible Penn State and Rutgers are...

I wouldn't say Evelyn plays the 1 the rest of the way, that would be a bit of an overreaction and would be to the detriment of Touissant's development. But with Moss transferring out, Bohannon now shelved the rest of the way, and Touissant being inexperienced it is clear the depth and...

This actually has nothing to do with Bohannon. Bruns knows ISU players have trash-talked and trolled fans in the past. Bohannon just gave him a convenient target to aim for. What this is really about is the fact that Iowa has dominated all the other meaningful sports in this rivalry and it is...

The Pit was already like that. Their renovation was pure cosmetic and modernization. To do this at Carver would require total removal of the seating bowl and re-built with straight sidelines. Expensive and long process.

The last time Barta spoke about renovations at Carver he said projects like a new clubhouse at Finkbine and a new boat house for the rowing program ranked higher on the priority list following the Kinnick expansion and are under way. Barta would love to do something about the basketball venue...

That's really the only way ISU has a chance of winning this one. Otherwise total mismatch. There's not a single position on the field where ISU is better than Notre Dame.

If I were Toren Young and Mekhi Sargent I would take a moment to sit down and review Iowa's RB usage over the last 5 seasons. For that time Iowa has successfully used 2 or 3 backs effectively rather than having one feature back getting 25 carries a game. Yes Goodson is a stud and has passed...

Campbell already got an extension after the back to back 8 win seasons. If he's getting one after a season that fell short of expectations and in which they only won 1 game against an even mediocre team (Texas) then Pollard must have it on good authority that there's alot of other programs that...

For those hoping Alabama would over-look Iowa in a potential bowl match-up, think again. If there's one coach in college football who goes to great lengths to prevent this it would be Nick Saban. If you also factor in the last game they played was a loss to Auburn on a 12-men on the field...

There's always excitement and anticipation until the schedule gets harder. Whether it keeps up beyond that is a toss-up.

Florida State is also on the hook for $3 million to Oregon for Taggart's buyout there plus the $1.7 million owed to South Florida that Oregon passed to Florida State. Taggart will probably pass Charlie Weis for highest-paid unemployed coaching flame-out in history.

This is how it starts though. Fire coordinators, results don't change. Eventually when they run out of coordinators the head coach is the only one left to fire. Frankly, I don't even know just how good Frost is as a coach. He left Oregon but the offense kept rolling. He left UCF and they...

Its kinda hard to predict these things, especially late in the season. I'm not sold on anyone in the West frankly. There isn't that much difference between Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Iowa hasn't had their signature win yet this season so perhaps that comes in Madison in a couple of...

Everyone knows this game is a lose/lose for Iowa. Iowa is forced to play a program that finishes in the bottom of the Big 12 most years while ISU has the benefit of playing an annual top division Big 10 team every single year without having to negotiate for it. It is one of the sweetest...

It has become the automatic reaction of the public to discount anything happening to the big boys and rightfully so given how many times they have broken the rules and gotten away with it because the NCAA was helpless to do anything about it (for various reasons). But when you have the FBI...

In all fairness the slate of games next weekend is kind of lacking. The only match-up of ranked teams is Utah and Washington State in Pullman. Wazzu just gave up a historic comeback to a bad UCLA team which torpedoed any chances for gameday to show up for that one. Ohio State and Nebraska are...