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IowaLaw called this transfer after the first Big 10 game last year when watching Nico Ragaini drop 5 balls and embarrass himself on punt returns, yet stay in the entire game while Oliver Martin rode the bench the entire Big 10 season. Oliver must have rubbed Brian the wrong way (I hope he...

Laporta looked good and could turn out to be a super star. But...he has a total of 15 receptions in his career. Putting every player who ever had stats on preseason watch lists kind of diminishes the value of the nomination.

There is one 100% objective issue alleged that, if the numbers are accurate, is the nail in Kirk and Barta's coffin and it has nothing to do with the "Iowa way" or graduation rates, which can be attributed to a number of outside factors. That issue is drug testing. If black players were indeed...

I've been an outspoken critic of Brian Ferentz's meteoric rise through the coaching ranks for a decade, but it's time for him to go. He started his career by asking his dad to make some calls to get him a coaching gig. Kirk went to the top and called in a favor to Bill Belichick. Belichick...

Up until the past week, there had been a lot of enthusiasm with the way Iowa recruiting had been going. Many have called this class potentially the best in Kirk's 20+ years on campus. Rivals has recently had them rated in the nation's top 10. With that said, I am noticing a discouraging...

There is a press conference coming up that will likely result in the termination of Chris Doyle. Most of the disgruntled former players and Wadley's mom also believe that Brian Ferentz, the epitome of "white privilege," needs to receive punishment as well. We know Kirk's not going to fire the...

C'mon, Jonrn - it's common in the short attention span era to think whoever is playing now must be the best ever (i.e. Lebron better than Jordan), but to say you'd rather have Brandon Smith over DJK makes me wonder if you've been following Iowa football for more than a couple of years. DJK had...

Getting defensive and blaming the players for speaking out rather than looking at the problem is a joke. Are all the dozens of players who have been calling out Brian Ferentz, Doyle, and others, for making derogatory and offensive race based comments while in a position of power lying? The...

Three obvious observations: 1. Coach's son Brian was also implicated but once again faces no discipline (like after destroying a visiting team's pressbox during a profanity laden temper tantrum a few years back). 2. Coach Doyle makes something like $3,000 PER DAY and his punishment thus far...

I hate what is going on in the program this week. However, Ferentz and staff have always had a problem with black athletes who played with "swagger" for decades and IowaLaw often pointed it out...only to be bashed as a "troll" or "cyclone fan" by fans and this site's moderators alike. In the...

It's been said over the years that Iowa develops elite OL, DBs, TEs and DL. But when it comes to quarterbacks, fans scratch their heads at the lack of improvement shown by QBs over the years. In fact, arguments have been made that QBs actually regress. While the stats for multi-year starters...

CP87 - you pose an interesting discussion but with a flawed premise. You essentially attempt to justify the fact that Brian Ferentz's offense was 103rd in the country in yards per game (despite an NFL QB, a stud RB, stud tackles, and the best WR corp in the past decade) by the fact that Iowa...

It took 7 games of some of the worst punt returning in Iowa football history before Ferentz finally pulled Ragaini from those duties to give someone else a shot. Averaging 2 drops on 3rd down per game has not reduced Ragaini's playing time in the slightest, regardless of having Martin on the...

UIhawk - good stats. Sargent did break off a big run...which begs the question...what is Brain's thought process in distributing carries? He's said "we play the hot hand." Goodson got virtually all of the carries (18) and averaged just 2.7 yrds per carry. Sargent, on the other hand, got 2...

A 49-24 win against a blue blood to cap off a 10 win season is the best way to ease the pain of going the next 8 months without Hawkeye football. While the refs randying around didn't do Iowa any favors, having USC down to their 3rd string QB was a huge break. Perhaps most encouraging is who...

The Hawks finished 9-3 and are headed to the Holiday Bowl despite having one of the worst offenses in the nation (#98 out of 130 schools). This was made possible by one of the best defenses in the Kirk Ferentz era. So how did they stack up? In short, they were dominant. Iowa ranked #12 in...

Motiger - good post with the offensive productivity chart. That lays everything out objectively. Since 2002, Iowa's offense is trending up toward a ranking of near the bottom of Power 5 offenses. Iowa's success has been based solely on its defense, which I think we can all acknowlege, has...

The all-Big 10 teams have been announced. The coaches and media all concurred with Iowalaw's report card and disregarded the hawkeyenation homerism relating to Nate's greatness, the WR corp that was "too good" to make room for Oliver Martin, and Goodson's relative super stardom. There...

dirt - I appreciate the attempt to rationally contribute to a college football discussion. In this case, however, you're wrong in so many ways. First, you attempt to justify Brian's error in judgment relegating Goodson to 3rd team for the majority of the season because he "wasn't good" at the...

Northside - absolutely brilliant homer observation: the team "decided early on" that it didn't care about scoring points or offense, and instead chose to rely on defense and kicking. lol That's the kind of loser sour grapes talk that Nebraska fans use after every loss. Congrats. The truth...