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One thing I always worry about is keeping him healthy. He doesn't have the look of someone who will be as durable as a Nathan Stanley. And in that light, I suppose it's just not going to happen that we keep a QB like Peyton Mansell in this day and age. But through the years, every back-up QB...

That was two REALLY BAD football teams playing today in the Rotten River Shoot-out. P.S. I'm tired of watching - and commenting on other football games. It's time to get the Big Ten back in business.

I was going over these one final time and spotted this. Regarding the Penn State game, yes I had goofed - the game was at Penn State, though my feeling about where the game fell in my rankings did not change. But I had NO intention of making mention of that "other" game. That Illinois team...

I can't comment on any of the things you ask about. I can only state the following: Strength and conditioning is virtually a year-round process now, especially for football. The strength coaches can see and meet with athletes at times the coaches can't. So THE #1 person a football player...

I understand - and I'm with you. The best thing we can do is to find things to post where we can be respectful, unique, even endearing. I had fun posting a Hayden Fry Top 25 list. And we can post ANYTHING here that is relevant to Iowa football. Give it a shot - our board is only as good as...

WOW! One of us has a VERY different perspective on QB's. But to respond properly to this will require me to make my own Top 10, and today I don't have time, and it would take to much space. HINT: Is either Nathan Stanley or Brad Banks #1 - NO.

I can think, just off the top of my head, of a good 3-6 dozen games far more worth re-showing, than that 2007 game - a dud game in a really dud season. For example, how about the 2009 MSU game, that went down to the final play, and was voted as the BTN game of the year? Or any number of the...

And since you asked, the Iowa way has always been one of respect and deference, as well as a willingness to unite as one, which we do when the swarm comes on the field, when we wave to those young people who face health challenges most of us can barely imagine, and when we take to heart the...

If kneeling were done for the purpose of prayer or something similar, that is one thing. But the kneeling has been done as an absolute contraindication to the accepted practice of standing at attention. For those who object to that practice, it is seen as a slight both against the flag and...

Do I (like anyone) know what is going to happen this Fall? Of course not. And yes, I know that, prior to the last few years there was no such thing as "the wave". But now that it is in place, it is unthinkable to me to envision the stands at Kinnick to be anything less than jammed full of...

This is just me. But while I could probably celebrate with the best of them after the game, WHY would anybody get inebriated during a game between the two best teams in the country?

I actually remember calling VOTH after that tragedy (by then, I was living in South Dakota). As you recall, their schedule was weekly during the football season, bi-weekly during the basketball season, and monthly off-season. The tragedy occurred not long after an issue had just been released...

The re-opening of our ministries will keep me quite busy now. But we'll see - I certainly have some games in mind. But it would probably be an amalgam of all the coaches, all the games, if I did. But you may have to wait awhile.

Sorry - WAY too much time has passed for me to remember exactly which ones they were. But I remember SO VIVIDLY reading those. Living away from Iowa after 1980, I snatched up those pre-season magazines - and anything else I could get my hands on, just so I could read SOMETHING about the...

OCTOBER 19TH, 1985: #1 IOWA 12, #2 Michigan 10. Talking about this game is a little like talking about Christmas. What more can you say that hasn’t already been said? Well, I’m going to give it a shot. First, there was a quote in a college football magazine, looking back at the 1985 season...

Appreciate it. But I stand by my comments. And when you figure how many 1981 games are already on the list, and how every one has proven itself to be a more important win at a more important time, a home game against a team that finished 7-4-1 just does not compare. Remember the list -...

Sir, read the post above yours, and then put two-and-two together. I have nothing else to say on that subject.

#10: DECEMBER 26TH, 1984 – THE FREEDOM BOWL: IOWA 55, #19 Texas 17. Probably the all-time favorite of Hayden himself as the Texas boy leaves the Longhorns collective bells rung. #9: DECEMBER 30TH, 1986 – THE HOLIDAY BOWL: #19 IOWA 39, San Diego State 38. One of the most exciting games...

As I prepare my article on #1, I thought it would be instructive to bring back the whole list of big games in the Hayden era. I understand that at least a couple of games relegated to "honorable mention" are very, very popular with Hawk fans. But I kept an eye on the place in Iowa history...

For the author of these threads, the place in the All-Time Top 25 was determined as much by the value of the game as time has gone by as anything. The bottom line is, while UCLA was highly rated when they came into Iowa City, by season's end, they didn't even end up in a top 20/25. They only...