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    So Where is the Bar for Iowa Basketball

    Excellent point! Some of the posters are unsure how we can do this and maybe we should just look at the Iowa State program Hey we are both in Iowa and we are in the mighty Big Ten. If they can do it why not us?
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    So Where is the Bar for Iowa Basketball

    I guess my suspicion was correct. Most (on this board) are happy with the current program. Not sure that would be true with the majority of Hawkeye fans as attendance and increasing apathy would indicate Let me just respond to some of the thoughts expressed above. First to resist change for...
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    So Where is the Bar for Iowa Basketball

    Is it Beating 8 or 9 cupcakes in the non conference and then hoping to go 500 or a little better in the Big Ten get into the tournament as a 7 or 8 seed and maybe win a game to get demolished in the second game never to make it to the second weekend or if miss the tournament play in the NIT...
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    Iowa vs Northwestern Game Thread

    We just beat NORTHWESTERN at home at the buzzer. Pounded on the boards Enjoy it May not be many more
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    No time to panic

    We got USC upstate next. We will throttle them! Where do they find teams like that? Do you think 3000 will show up
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    Has McCaffrey landed any 2025 recruits

    Don't wish to squabble with you but I suspect I have been an Iowa fan longer than most on this board. I remember being glued to the radio listening to the Ralph Miller teams in the 60s Chris Perval Jerry Jones and my favorite George Peeples. that team lost to Texas Western and everyone went...
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    O-Line Moore Award Semifinalist

    Really???
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    Meanwhile, the cross-state rivals...

    Is there a "good" bowl outside the playoffs??? I doubt many Iowa fans will be going to the game
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    So Would Iowa be better off in Big 12?

    Hey this was a hypothetical not intended to be a serious consideration. Of course Iowa will never be in the Big 12. I suppose its possible Iowa State might be in the same conference as Iowa if they move to create 2 super conferences and then add some teams to the Big Ten SEC ??? who knows what...
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    So Would Iowa be better off in Big 12?

    Clearly not going to happen but if it was an option?? Big 12 doesn't get the national exposure and won't receive the revenue that Big Ten teams enjoy. It's a secondary conference with mostly secondary level teams that to a large degree have no natural rivalry with each other. On the other side...
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    Sports Illustrated Preseason ratings

    They have the Hawks 40 and 9th in the Big Ten. Probably a fair rating. They don't think much of the Big Ten with only one in top 20 Purdue at #14 Where has Michigan State gone? In any event give us a better chance to compete in what looks to be a very mediocre conference They did have Iowa...
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    Has McCaffrey landed any 2025 recruits

    Just to inject a bit of objectivity 247 had Iowa a respectable 31 in 2023 53 in 2024 and of course not rated yet for 2025 since we have no one committed Not sure humming is a descriptor that one would associate with Iowa basketball recruiting or Iowa basketball in general. Maybe you were...
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    McNamara says he has played well up until last game

    That was his assessment He has 944 yards through 7 games with a 5.9 yard average and A LONG of 33 yards. with 6 TDs and 4 Interceptions I posted a while ago that some Michigan reporters said he was a mediocre QB on a talented Michigan team. Maybe its time to accept that they were being generous
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    Has McCaffrey landed any 2025 recruits

    Looks like just about all those looking at Iowa have committed elsewhere?? No big dollars to buy players a coach entering the end of his career nor a lot of success especially when it counts seems to be a lot to overcome. We may be competitive this year if not a tournament team but the future...
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    Get Prepared for some Tough Times

    We had hoped for a special year. Obviously that is gone. Next year will be worse. Lose a lot of key players with little hope of adding enough to be good. May be looking at 3 or 4 win season Iowa men's athletic program at crossroads. Regardless if Ferentz retires (and he needs to retire) we are...
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    MIchigan Set to Flip Iowa Kicker recruit

    Just saw a recruiting article pop up on the internet indicating Michigan is 92.1% likely to flip Starzyk the highly rated kicker Iowa recruited for next year. Too bad as we all know the kicker is the main cog in a Ferentz offense
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    The reality of it

    Iowa will likely never challenge for football supremacy It was men vs boys today and it is only get to be a wider disparity with the NIL and the teams like Ohio State buying players to round out their great recruiting classes. Evy did it with a few good players many of them playing both ways...
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    Can we run the ball next week?

    The short answer is NO we cant run the ball against an elite team like Ohio State
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    Iowa lands their 2026 QB

    Herrara from California 3 star by 247 with mostly mid major offers. Described as pocket type QB. No mention of dual capabilities I hate to be pessimistic as I don't know much about him but he sure sounds like a Ferentz QB
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    This Game Will tell us a lot

    WE have played an FCS team, Troy (one of the worst teams in the country), Iowa State a pretty good team that was playing without top 3 LBs and Minnesota. Not exactly a tough schedule to date. This game should tell us if Johnson is a legit top RB, If our defense is still elite and if a change in...


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