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From the preseason expectations compared to the current stats, the biggest surprise to me is we rank 98th in net punting. Prior to the Penn St. game -- -- in which he launched 2 beauties averaging I think 53 or 57 yards for the game -- Iowa's punter has really struggled after the first couple...

Last night's first attempt did remind me a bit of last year's Iowa St. game, when Iowa scored a TD to go up 19-7 vs the Clones late in the 3rd quarter. I said out loud to my friend at the time "No need to do this" when Iowa uncharacteristically went for 2 and then failed. I understood the...

From what I saw of the Minnesota game, they came to play Friday night vs the Huskers. Defense was flying around, strong running game...simply out-physicaled NB...kind of like Iowa looking in the mirror on a good day. Saturday's game at Kinnick looks like an old-fashioned slobberknocker.

'Alarmingly inept' is an apt description. I was telling my Indiana friend who was at the game with me that I can't remember the last time Iowa successfully converted a 2-pt conversion. And then 0-2 again last night. It feels like a LONG time, and not because they haven't tried many! This...

You're correct -- my bad.

I didn't know if he was gonna jump ship, but we ALL knew if he didn't he was gonna milk this moment for all it was worth! Oddly, one of my first thoughts was wondering what KF was thinking: Cig has been in the BTen 1.5 years and is now pulling down 11.5mil/year. KF has been in the BTen 27...

Week 1: Ole Miss Week 3 -- Mizzou Week 4 -- Georgia Tech Week 5 -- Memphis Week 6 -- Oklahoma Week 7 -- Texas Tech Week 8 -- Texas A & M A risky pick, and am tempted to go with Ohio St. 'cause they've got a tougher road ahead than Indiana and I think Indy can beat them in the BTen title...

Agreed. Iowa State was almost a cosmic/preordained thing for him -- he had an internal revelation he'd be coach there when his Toledo team came to play in Ames once. It's known he covets the Notre Dame job, so if the ND coach gets hired as the new Penn St. coach, THEN things could get...

Sounds about right. Let 'em start there and RISE!

Whether they start or not, it's clear that KF and Lester would love to keep both of them around.

The fact that Indiana will offer Cig more money and an extension is a given. But the same goes goes for Rhule at Lincoln too. The age difference between Rhule and Cig is interesting, and can be looked at either way. Probably makes Cig less interesting from a Penn St. perspective, but from...

You're probably right about Iowa hitting the QB portal after the season, but Iowa still would prefer to keep backup QBs on the roster who have actual game experience or that they 'like', rather than lose Brown and Hecklinski to the portal and have to trust a true or redshirt Fr with no...

Campbell would take ANY offer from Penn St. in a NY minute. He's peaked at ISU...he and everyone else knows it.

Rhule may take the PSU job, but why in the hell would they want him? His record vs Top 10 opponents is worse than Franklin's. He's a proven program 'rebuilder', but Penn St. is not in rebuilding mode -- they're in 'we want a national title yesterday' mode -- and there's nothing in Rhule's...

Yeah, this is the best -- and most healthy -- OLine the Hawks have had in many moons. Jones' is really performing this season -- he seems quicker, faster, and his lateral movement is elite. He'll be missed bigtime when he's gone. His biggest challenge is handling strong, bull-rushing nose...

Competely agree. Some systems are well-suited for smaller QBs -- NWestern's Fitzgerald had some shorter QBs who fit their system -- but Iowa has always made their QBs primarily throw out of a standard pocket and has never been small-QB friendly. Over the years several smaller QBs have...

A lot of truth in this post. It's clear that Lester likes both Brown and Hecklinski, and KF seems to agree. These days if you want to keep QB backups from transferring you have to play them a little, just to give them hope for the future at their current location. Brown got his chance vs...

I don't pay attention to polls much, and could care less about any poll 'over the long run'. But when two undefeated teams play each other midway through the season, and the team that goes on the road, wins by 10 pts, and the following week is ranked lower than the actual loser -- well, that...

Don't forget about Dayton Howard, who at 6'5" had the best catch of the season vs Rutgers. Pair him with VZ, and you've FINALLY got some height at the WR position.

The SEC has had an anti-field storming policy and fine structure for many years, and I always suspected their fans were a little jealous when they'd see BTen fans storming fields with no repercussions. I was amazed that they were so obedient and never stormed their fields...until a few years...