Search results

Iowa has the fourth best record in the conference at 7 and 2 and plays the team with 5th best record in Rutgers on the 11th. To be in this position in November is remarkable considering the injuries on offense. Iowa having two of three games at home is an advantage down the stretch. When you...

Iowa went 8 quarters without a touchdown until Ostrenga scored in the 3rd Qtr today. No TD's in 2nd half vs Wisc, none versus Minnesota and none in the first half vs NW. Hill was functional today other than his interception throw. Overall little to no improvement from two weeks ago.

Iowa has statistical advantages over NW in two areas, defense and special teams. The deference isn't that great on defense where NW is currently 50th nationally and Iowa 19. Offensively NW has scored 33 or more points in 3 of its games and Iowa only has 1. It scored 13 vs PSU and Iowa got 0. It...

There are Pros and Cons in Kirk's situation. There's a lot of money to be made and the opportunity to make history on the pro side of the argument. On the Con side is the amount of turmoil that is part of college football; realignment, NIL, and the transfer portal. Kirk did reach out to the...

Kirk next move should be assigning Brian to coach from the Press Box. Brian is under contract and if he quit now he would be sacrificing his remaining salary. What would be awkward for Brian is being on the sideline at the two remaining home games and walking off Duke Slater Field for the...

It's impossible to know the answer since we do not know if Minnesota would have been able to score in the last two minutes after Iowa kicked off. What we do know is Iowa had plenty of time and time outs to go 20 yards in order to try a field goal from around the Minnesota 35. Those last three...

In another thread I referred to the Minnesota game as Iowa's Bobby Bowden Moment, the event that triggers a chain of events leading to dismissal or resignation of a coach. It is now up to Kirk to decide if he wants to continue. 2024 is a completely different Big Ten for all sports, winning...

Since nothing is official at this point I would not want to conclude that a resignation letter has been signed, sealed and delivered. Obviously, the circumstances surrounding the offense needed to be addressed during the bye week. I can only speculate that someone important initiated a...

It was good to be able to watch parts of a number of games. Some teams are continuing to improve during the season and others are making no progress. The biggest take away today is having a QB that can run and has speed. In the KS vs OU game the QB's both could extend drives with runs. The NW QB...

One assistant coach explains 1985 - Bill Snyder - When he left IC in 1988 for KSU that was a big loss for Hayden Fry and Iowa. My wife had an uncle that was clued in to a degree and he insisted Snyder was the brains behind Iowa's success. I'm pretty sure that Snyder's abilities exceed any Iowa...

Iowa will finish 5th in some form or fashion. It seems Iowa is always 5th.

The title is a bit deceiving from the actual posts. I believe Fry and Ferentz have created a head coach position that will be attractive to candidates that want stability and fan support. It won't be attractive to coaches like Urban Meyer or Lou Saban chasing national championships. The...

How does this nightmare end? The real Iowa nightmare is down the road a few years. College football is well on its way to its creative destruction. A good Iowa regular season will be 7 and 5 and many years 4 and 8. Everyone not named OSU, MI, PSU, SoCsl, WA, and ORE are nothing more than cannon...

I almost started another thread, but Minnesota Football Saturday 2023 was Kirk and Iowa's Bobby Bowden Moment. In 2009 Bowden was cut loose by FL ST as the program was declining and after FSU had to vacate wins for improprieties. Bowden didn't have any losing seasons leading to his firing. He...

I don't think Iowa has to worry about anyone poaching Iowa QB's. Iowa's OC will make sure that won't happen with his success rate as a coordinator. I'm turning Iowa's offensive woes over to St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes. Maybe he can fix things.

That was a bad Minnesota Football Team on Saturday, abetted by an even worse Iowa offensive effort, 22 points between them. If Kirk and company think Hill will improve I can't see how. After 3 games nothing is better statistically for Hill or the offense. Utah brings in a backup for their...

Minnesota is tough to figure out, they are ranked 119th nationally in total offense and 63rd in total defense. Their offensive average yardage is 313.3 ypg. They give up 373 ypg on defense. Compare those numbers with Iowa's 247 ypg on offense and 325 ypg on defense. Iowa's numbers are really...

It's the corrupt world of college athletics folks. In business, the professionals call this creative destruction. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being "much about nothing" the "infraction" rates a 2 in today's world. It's naive to think this sign stealing really changes anything in the long term view.

On 10-16-2023 the best hope is the Iowa offense can sustain a rushing game and do just enough passing to keep possession of the ball to keep drives alive. Iowa actually had possession of the ball longer than Wisconsin, but not by much. There is some hope that Iowa can rush against Minnesota. The...

On some disturbed level of consciousness Brian has to figure out how to average 35.8 points per game over the last 5 games to reach 325. Currently he's at the 20.8 points per game average. If Iowa can manage to get to a 25 point per game average over the next 5 games they most likely win all 5...