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Maryland's defensive stats are skewed a bit by playing games against Ohio State and West Virginia, two very good offenses. Maryland's defense did much better against Indiana than did Iowa. Iowa faced an above-average offense for the first time this year in Indiana, and the result was not pretty...

This is pretty much where I'm at on the QB thing. It needs to get hashed out and have a guy moving forward. You hit it right with the biggest difference between the two QB's, which is the arm strength and velocity of Beathard. Once he decides to make a throw, the ball gets out quickly and to...

Full-court pressing for 40 minutes in today's game, with this roster, is inviting disaster. A serious question, but how many top-level teams today are using full-court pressure for 40 minutes? Not many, or any. Teams today (on average, and especially the good ones) have more guys who are capable...

I have found life much less stressful by not fixating on who plays. Or at least getting upset about it. The coaches literally see these guys perform 1,000 times more than we do. If you can't trust the coaches to play the best players, then there is no point in even following the team...

As others have said, the imperative is not keeping both guys. The first priority is identifying the best guy to help win games. How that situation is handled is one of the difficult parts of the head coach's job.

Iowa doesn't have 4 super-talented RB's. They have one who is pretty quick with good vision but is small (Canzeri) one who is fast but little vision or cutback ability (Bullock) one who runs hard but lacks speed (Weisman) and one who shows the most complete potential but will need more carries...

He was the second RB in the game. He came in with Beathard for the series. It's obvious Iowa had a package for Parker and Beathard in the game at the same time, and it was fun to watch. Several zone-/read snaps out of the shotgun. Iowa even threw in the PA fake to Parker on the zone read and...

Be careful Jon. Salary! All the staff needs to do is try harder! Elite program is our birthright!

Northwestern is a completely different program now as opposed to most of Fry's time. Northwestern from 1979 through 1994 won 33 total games in 16 years, about 2 games a year. 3 of those seasons they won no games, with another year winning just 1. Truly awful, perhaps only Kansas state rivaled...

It's 2016 when Iowa plays NDSU. And it's not the opener, it's the third game of the season in 2016, after Miami (Ohio) and Iowa State. But yes, NDSU will likely be a quality opponent coming in 2016. Lot can happen between now and then, but Bisons have a track record of being well-coached and...

From a pure passing talent standpoint, Lunt from Illinois is as good as anyone in the league (note I didn't say he was the best QB). But Lunt can throw it. From a total QB perspective, too soon to tell for some of the others. I certainly view Armstrong from NU and Leidner from Minny as more...

Good job of putting things in context. Winning at Iowa is generally more difficult than most of the other schools in the conference, for the simple fact that very few of the sports can have Iowa as its major recruiting base and field a team in the upper half of the conference (perhaps wrestling...

I'm an Iowa fan, and why is it so hard to admit that UNI has a better running back than we do? Johnson is good, plain and simple. He's had big games against teams from FBS schools. He had 159 total yards against Iowa the last time we played. Against Wisconsin in 2012, he had 107 yards receiving...

Ulis said when he made his announcement that Iowa was the choice behind Kentucky. MSU was definitely a contender, but Fran had beat everyone out by UK. Not that it really matters, finishing second in recruiting is the same as finishing 10th.

There is a bit of luck involved in the OOC scheduling, in determining who is going to be a 150-200 RPI team vs. a 300+ team. But other teams figure it out, Iowa needs to also. In addition, Iowa could schedule 1 or 2 Division II teams rather than a 300+ team. People might howl about that, but...

Re: Chicago Sun Times writer Seth Gruen may need to be tested for workplace drug use. Picking Northwestern to finish ahead of Iowa isn't outrageous. It could happen if the Wildcats stay healthy (including Venric Mark available for all B1G games). Northwestern's schedule doesn't include OSU...

When we say that we should "never lose to ISU" we sound like Michigan or OSU fans when they talk about losing to Iowa. Yes, Iowa on a yearly basis generally has more talent than does ISU. But the talent disparity isn't so big that ISU can't win (the last 15 years have shown us that). The...

Not sure how ESPN gets slammed for being biased here. All they are doing is projecting records based on their own stat-based power index (not sure what goes into it). Why is it hard to comprehend that the games at Pitt and Maryland will be difficult and/or Iowa could lose? Those teams are going...

I really don't care all that much if White increases his scoring much. As is, he is a very good college player. His inability to consistently knock down outside shots or handle the ball real well is what has kept him from being an elite player. But if he was excellent at those two things he'd...