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Message boards have "real fans", no doubt. Message boards do not necessarily have fans that are "representative" of the entire fan base. It is sort of like reading a review of a product on CNET or Amazon. You have to take the relative number of positive reviews to negative reviews with a...

I like this quote from the article: "It's something like 78 percent of former NFL players, two years after their last game, are either bankrupt, divorced, or unemployed," Ruettgers told WAWS-TV." Heck, I'd be unemployed, too, if I just got done making $50 million in about ten or so years of...

BAMMM! Right here. I don't want KF to leave. I want him to stay and be successful. I am not one of the folks calling for his or KOK's or Norm's head. However, there are a TON of coaches out there that would trade their job for the Iowa job. A TON. Think this through, Duff. Excellent...

Not a great comparison by Morehouse, but I will give him a pass because I haven't seen a lot of stuff where he has been way off like this. Morehouse is generally pretty good, and everyone steps in it from time to time. As a number of people have mentioned, the Alford situation was different...

I remember thinking that at the time--that KF was one player away from completely losing the program.

Personal opinion: Jon, the upside of using that term may be significantly less than the potential downside.

Agreed, which is why it is baffling to exclude one season. Why was he trying to make it look worse when the statistics were already bad?

Agreed, but if we are talking about wins and losses within a 4 point difference of the opposition, there is no reason to exclude the wins in 2009. It is akin to saying "we lost all of the close games (except for the close games we won)". Why not exclude the JC years if we are going to...

No reason to exclude the year in which the "stars aligned" if you are going to include the years in which the stars were out of alignment.

Really? Some of those 2005 recruits were crucial in getting to and winning the Orange Bowl.

It truly depends on who you get, doesn't it? With that in mind, I wouldn't buy a pig in a poke on this one.

I had us at 7-5 in one of those threads. Still holding out hope that we will get there...

How about BJ Lowery, though? That guy is absolutely ripping it up on special teams, even with only one good arm.

I know, but you responded to my post, and I wanted to make it clear that I do not think it is silly, but, rather, misdirected. I don't see it as a legitimate measure to critique KF. It is a legitimate measure to critique Barta, however.

I didn't say it was silly, I said the angst was misdirected.

I do love the guy's mentality.

I hate the salary thing, too. It is not KF's fault that the University agreed to overpay him (assuming that the nay-sayers are correct that he is overpaid). What was he supposed to do? Go in with a low-ball offer of $50,000 per year? Would these losses hurt any less if KF was working for free...

Not true in all cases. There is nothing inconsistent with: (A) believing that the team should be more aggressive in situations in which there is little time left on the clock (whether at half-time or the end of the game); and (B) believing that the most effective strategy should be used...

Aside from 2002 and the JC years, this has largely true every year. When we get the bounces, we go BCS (2009), when we don't we go to a lesser bowl (2010). This year's team talent is lower than usual (defense), so we needed a few more bounces to go our way to be slightly above average. It...