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Good point. So does Marv have the Big10 WR award (the so-called "Richter-Howard Receiver of the Year") locked down?

Wetzel makes a compelling argument, but he ignores the possibility that, by making these "tough" changes to the structure of the Big Ten, Delany might eventually -- though certainly not immediately -- improve the national perception of the Big Ten to the point that a 1-loss Big Ten team does, in...

I know, but I'd love it for him to get any AA recognition. It would be a great honor for a great and seemingly very humble person. Rittenberg seems to like him a lot, so his trumpeting of McNutt's skills should help in this, at least to some extent. Is there a Big10 "best-receiver" prize...

Even 3rd team? What do you think? (if the Biletnikoff voting is any indication, the answer is 0%) Will he even be 1st-team All-Big10?

Better now. It looks like there aren't as many videos loading in the player. No problems now.

I'm on a mac using Safari. All pages on HN stall the browser until the videos load. It's not a matter of bandwidth and downloading the page; it's the player and its playlist that holds everything up. I am experiencing major CPU-use spike, spinning wheel, frozen page. It resolves itself once the...

Good question. Of course, few decisions in football are per se truly fatal, and any tiny change in one of the three overtimes could have led to a W for the Hawks. But it's interesting to ask whether fellow coaches -- even just Big 10 coaches -- would call it fatal...not when asked by a reporter...

Most seem to agree that Kirk's decision to sit on the ball at 1:17 with two TOs was a fatal mistake. This hardly needs any further discussion. The more important questions going forward: 1) Did Kirk learn anything? 2) Do you think Kirk will actually change anything and become more...

That makes sense. These are both great points.

Thanks! That seems sort of odd, though; if I am an opposing offensive coordinator, why wouldn't I move my receivers around to then create a serious mismatch...like, for example, a James Hardy vs. Shada or Castillo?

The current battle between Castillo and Lowery for the corner spot opposite Prater got me wondering something that I'm sure someone can answer quickly: It of course makes sense that Prater will cover the offense's best receiver in any given game. But, not having any game tape in front of me...

Credit to Duffman and others for taking time to point out the fact that ISUhawk is a bigot. A couple of additional points: 1) ISUhawk claims that gays and lesbians don't have the same history of oppression, persecution, and discrimination as African-Americans, making the use of homophobic...

Yeah, this seems to be the crux of the issue here. Kirk harps over and over about execution. And, on some level, you can't really argue with that. But he says very little about adapting schematically. On the one hand, he's ultimately right that it IS all about execution. That's obviously the...

Ha! Good point. We certainly don't need any infractions. I remember reading that Kaeding kept meticulous notes about each kick he ever made (in practice and in games) and that he used this to improve, etc. I wonder how many kickers do something like that. In any case, let's hope Kaeding's mere...

Good points, tm. I sure hope so. I agree that Meyer shows some nice skill for a true freshman. You wonder how he'd do with a kicking coach...like Kaeding...Kirk should see about getting Kaeding's help in the off-season.

Good ideas, Mutton. I don't see how it's that hard for us to find a decent kicker. Someone suggested that Meyer's kickoff distance suffered once he became the full-time kicker (I think it was Jon Miller). Not sure if that's true, but his power certainly did decrease as the year went on. Some...

Good point. You wonder if conditioning gets changed around a little bit this year, what with the very visible fatigue of our most experienced d-linemen in a great many games (even against teams that didn't run hurry-up offenses). I do still think Doyle is the best, though.

An intriguing idea, hawkfaninTX. As long as AIRBHG doesn't curse our RBs again, we might finally have the depth to be really run-heavy. The question, I guess, is whether the O-line could hold up / enable that.

I was hoping you'd get involved in this thread, Spudhawk. It's great to have your insights here, and these are all very doable tweaks that you'd think would make the offense a little more dynamic and the D a little less predictable.

Interesting. One would think our strength next year is the run...three (or more) qualified running backs, and (more)mature offensive line. So it seems unlikely that JVB will really be allowed to let it rip any more than Stanzi was this year.