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The difference being, Mike Trout doesn't play on a roster with 5 all-stars like the Hawkeyes have. If he did, and his team didn't win a playoff game, his manager would be yanked immediately. I don't think it has sunk in for most Hawk fans yet. Iowa's team was as talented as Michigan or Ohio...

Brian's logic appears much like that of his namesake. To judge a young coach 3 years into rebuilding a doormat program (while stuck with the previous coach's players) based on his head to head record against a long established coach at a historic program who has been there for 20 years defies...

Sadly, it sounds like the liberal PC world of "safe spaces" and being overly offended by life itself has hit the campus of the University of Iowa. To suspend a loyal 20 year employee for making an obvious observation off the record (one that not a single hawk fan disagrees with) is a complete...

I think 99 inadvertently hit the nail on the head here. While year after year Iowa has top TEs and some good DBs, those are not the positions that matter most when it comes to wins and losses. I would trade 3 all-Big 10 TEs for an all Big 10 QB any day of the week. Most teams actually use...

This is pretty unprecedented and the coaching staff needs to hold themselves accountable. On paper, Iowa was talented enough to win the entire Big 10, let alone the lowly Big 10 West, which was regarded as one of the worst Power 5 divisions. To lose 4 conference games and come up that far...

Let's see...Brian's qualifications are...not even one of the better recruiters on Iowa's bottom half of the Big 10 recruiting class. Two years as OC of a bottom half of the Big 10 offense. Oh, and 2 years where his dad got him a gig as a placeholder in New England, where their tight ends have...

Campbell just won the Big 12 Coach of the Year for the second year in a row, and he's only been coaching there for 3 years. Here is what he took over: 2013: 3-9 2014: 2-10 2015: 3-9 2016: 3-9 (Campbell's first year) Obviously, he took over one of the 5 worst programs in college football with...

What's hilarious is Stanzi's ignorant post. Don't let the facts get in the way of a completely stupid statement. Ferentz didn't inherit a talentless squad from Hayden at all. In fact, he inherited arguably one of the most talented teams Iowa has had. Just a few quick examples that come to...

Plenty of threads have been devoted to bashing Nebraska on this board. Rightfully so. They are a rival, they have an unfounded ego, and they suck at pretty much all sports. But now that the dust has settled, someone has to give credit where credit is due and illustrate a comparison...

Hwk23 - I think you're mistaken saying that our WRs step up against bad competition. Hell, even in this week's 63 point shellacking against Illinois, the WRs were nowhere to be found. Brandon Smith led WRs with 3 receptions, and no other WR had more than 1 catch. How is that possible when we...

A 63-0 win against a Big 10 opponent! We definitely took care of business against the last place team in the Big 10 west. Illinois came in with the 128th ranked defense in college football, and the coaches did a nice job exploiting their many weaknesses. While this takes some of the sting out...

Well, it looks like this post aged well. If the Hawks finish the season losing 4 of 5 (assuming a win against Illinois), with zero quality wins and a cupcake schedule, Kirk, Brian, and Coach Doyle cash in like no other Iowan in history for their mediocrity. Hats off to master negotiator and...

While the Defense has not been clutch at the very end of games, statistically, they remain one of the best in the country. Normal teams don't lose games when they only give up 14 points. Teams usually win those games by 20 points. Unfortunately, the Defense is not given anything to work with...

It's getting harder and harder to get excited about next year given the historical pattern of quarterbacks regressing. With little exception, any soph or jr QB at Iowa has become more and more conservative and gun shy under Ferentz as he's "developed.? Hell, even NFL starter CJ Beathard was a...

Uhh, did you watch the game? There are very few high school quarterbacks playing in Iowa's class 4A playoffs who couldn't complete 23 of the throws Stanley completed today. He simply hiked the ball and threw the safest possible horizontal pass behind the line of scrimmage possible. Stanley's...

In other news, Eno, who was so excited to be a Hawk just 18 months ago, had 191 yards rushing today. The entire Hawkeye team mustered just 64 yards. Last week, Eno had 175 yards against #16 Utah. This single recruiting blunder likely cost us a 10 win season this year and a good year next year...

#7. Ferentzian Clock Management Strikes Again - Once again, we have the ball right before halftime and with the game on the line at the end of the game. Once again, Stanley runs the clock all the way down, as if he's on a Sunday stroll with no recognition of the clock or the situation, and...

What an infuriating season! We were gifted one of the 2 easiest schedules in the Ferentz era. We had the talent, bringing back our top QB, OL, WRs, DL. We led every game in the 4th quarter. Still, we manage to piss the season down our leg. In spite of 3 losses to mediocre teams and zero...

In a season of highs and lows, the Hawks are sitting right where most thought they would be after 3 quarters of the season are complete. 6-3, with no unexpected wins or losses. We lost each of the big games that could have made us an upper echelon team, and won the games against the weaker...

You really think Penn State was favored to win because of the rain, and not because they have been a top 10 team most of the year and are thought of as the better team? Did you watch the game? Stanley was not throwing to "multiple 5'8 guys." Virtually all of his passes were to 6'5 future NFL...