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I agree. When the game is no longer in doubt, put the backups in and feel free to run whatever offense and defense you would normally run. It's a great chance to get those guys experience running the stuff that you're going to be asking them to run in the future in a game setting. Putting in the...

Mississippi State to me is a bad job. It's probably the 6th best job in the division and would be the worst job in the division if Ole Miss hadn't become a dumpster fire. Venebles would have to be some sort of masochist to take that job. Dan Mullen is THAT good of a coach to get the results...

I don't think ASU's issues have been talent based, but it seems like the team isn't good with the details. They were improved this year compared to 2016, but apparently not enough. I do think that Todd Graham still has his job if Kevin Sumlin still had his. I think they saw an opportunity for an...

You're missing the point if you think I'm actually comparing Johnson and Ferentz in regards to their overall coaching ability. The point is that Johnson was saying that in certain situations that he wouldn't be aggressive for the sake of being aggressive. It's about controlling the game. In this...

I disagree that 98% of coaches would pass the ball in that situation on 2nd and 18 at their own 30 with less than a minute to play. I'm going to take a quote from Jimmy Johnson. "You see, an offensive coordinator has got one thought on his mind. Score. Score as fast as I can and as much as I...

The loss to Michigan State itself wasn't a freak occurrence, but the play where Stanley intercumbles is a bit of a freak occurrence. You hit that play instead of a turnover and you end up 17-14 at that point in the game and. The game ended 17-10 so that TD could have extended the game. Would...

They took a sack on 1st down when they were at their own 38 so they faced 2nd and 18. At this point there was about a minute to go in the 2nd Qtr. There are good coaches that would still try to move the ball at that point. There are also some good coaches that would probably say lets just get it...

I never lived in Iowa City or went to school there, but I hung out there regularly during my "college years." Iowa City is great, but it's nothing special compared to other places in my opinion based on my personal experiences. I've been to Madison multiple times and went again last week. I...

I don’t like losses at the time, but usually I’m pretty level headed later that night or the following day. For instance, I expected Iowa to be able to at least split NW and MSU. They lost both and it was frustrating to watch as Iowa struggled to move the ball for large chunks of the game...

I agree with everything but the last part of your third point. Iowa's history/tradition is solid, but not great. Great campus environments can be found almost anywhere. I don't feel like Iowa City is anything unique compared to it's counterparts. Almost anyone who is anyone has high end...

My post was regarding LB's only. I said as much in my post during the first sentence. I also never said 2nd stringers shouldn't see any playing time. The last two weeks are the first time all year that Iowa was involved in a game that was definitively decided by the time the early 4th quarter...

What player in the LB corp has been held back that we know for a fact was better than the player in front of him? I'd argue that it's a sad state of affairs that we don't have another LB on the roster that is an upgrade over Bo Bower, but Jewell is a 3 year starter for good reason. Niemann has 3...

It only took the second post to find a winner here. All other posts after this post regarding this topic were perhaps fun, but unnecessary communication.

I can't say I know much about recruiting aside from the very basics so I don't know much about which coaches talk to who, what their roles are, and recruiting budgets. I'm from Iowa and lived there for close to the first 23 years of my life, lived 7 years in Arizona, and the past couple of years...

Your assessments aren't totally off base, but they aren't exactly right either. For instance, I think your grade regarding the rushing attack is correct. The yards per carry of our RB's isn't just below average, it's bad. I agree that the production is at the very least disappointing to...

I don't really count Jerminic Smith as a part of the equation in regards to why or why not the WR unit should be better in 2018 than 2017. Smith was never a part of the 2017 team once the season rolled around. To me, this comes down to do you think Vandeburg, Easley, ISM, and Brandon Smith are...

We returned 4 out of 5 OL coming into the year, but 2 of the 4 returnees were injured before conference play so really we were looking at 2 out of 5 returning starters by the time conference play started. Injuries are a part of the game unfortunately so sometimes something can be projected, but...

This is simple. 4 OL will return, both TE's will return, all but 1 WR will be back, all but one DL will return, and it looks like 3 starters in the secondary will return now that Jackson is probably going pro. Most importantly, the QB will return. What we replace is a pair of RB's, all LB's, a...

The Hawks didn't play the Badgers in 1993 or 1994. In 1993 the Badgers went to the Rose Bowl and in 1994 they finished 3rd in the conference. In both years the Hawks finished below .500 in the Big 10. I'm also unsure what effect Kirk Ferentz had on the performance of the 1997 or 1998 version of...

Wisconsin being a better program than Iowa isn't new. Since 1990 when the Badgers hired Alvarez, they've won 237 games including 4 outright Big 10 titles and 5 other shared Big 10 titles. Iowa in the same stretch has 202 wins and shared 3 Big 10 titles. This isn't something new. This isn't about...