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Oh, one last thing - trust that between now and February that coach Morgan will find at least one (possibly more) under-recruited gem that gets a last-minute offer and will turn out to be all-conference. It seems to happen every year.

Criticism of Iowa’s recruitment at TE, OL and LB would make the critic look pretty foolish during the Ferentz tenure. Trust the coaches’ Metrics as they have proven to be better than the recruiting services - and by a wide margin. (Ditto CB And Safety, but you rightly point out that we are...

Mississippi State has 2 first rounders and 3 fourth rounders. I hope a couple of them decide the bowl game is too risky and choose not to play!

I think James Ferentz is playing for the Patriots. Add him to the list.

Phil Parker will be drilling them over and over on assignment football. Especially the front 7. Hopefully our experience vs Maryland will help us here. Safeties need to really have good vision and be ready to fill. We did pretty well vs Georgia Tech with a month to prepare... let’s hope the...

I don’t see this as a Really big deal. Basically, for spread teams, we will be playing our “Nickel” package instead of the 4-3 as our base package. We have always had a nickel package. Basically they are saying that we need to use the Nickel more. $5 says we go right back to the 4-3 vs...

How did we rank in another under-appreciated stat: Red zone efficiency? The missed opportunities vs Wisky and PSU will haunt me for awhile.

My son plays in the circuit around DSM and Beyond Ball is one of the teams included in these tournaments. Now my son is only a 7th grader, but we see a lot of 8th grade teams playing on the next court over. It is not unusual to see a player on each of these teams at the 8th grade level that...

Rob Ash was the coach at Drake. He was a fine coach and well-liked.

Even if he isn’t as accurate as Duncan, I think this might help in those “hidden yards” because the Kick coverage squads have been so good these last 2 years. I think maybe the staff will be looking at him as a kick-off specialist and let Duncan and Shudak battle it out for FG inside 45 yards...

October defines the season. Wow.

We have the personnel to run this now. I mean, we are loaded at Safety...

I think TE will take a step back, how could it not? But I think the combo of Cook ( we know he is a great athlete), Beyer (tall and fast) and Weiting will still be the best TE group in the B1G and will still be very productive. No question that the WR group needs to continue to improve and...

One dig could be that he doesn’t know when to get a QB out of the game when he clearly is not functioning at an acceptable level ( see Penn State game). Is it not his call?

If anyone else jumps early, I hope it is Stanley. Seriously doubt he gets the required grade from the draft evaluation, though. Let the Mansell vs Petras competition begin!

I am encouraged by the simple fact that Sargent and Young BOTH figured out that the cutback lanes were there and they started using them. Now, it seemed like it took until the Illinois game, but they were definitely looking for the cutback lanes in the last 2 games. They were there all year...

The Tracy kid from Indy. Also, I think if Hock comes back, they put Beyer in as the speed TE and if he can prove to people that he can stretch a defense and CATCH the ball, we will still be in good shape. Assuming that the balls thrown his way aren’t at his feet or 10 feet over his head...

I am a fan of Walterfootball.com. They have 2 former scouts picking and Charlie has 2 TEs going in round 1, but it is the other 2 guys: Okwuegbunan from Mizzou and Smith from Bama. Fant is next off of the board at #48 which is halfway through round 2. The other guy, Walt, doesn’t have any TEs...

Defense will be awesome - totally agree. Offense ... we will most likely NOT have either Fant or Hock. A QB that isn’t accurate and accentuates that with an inability to run. 3 good but not great RBs we can interchange, and 2 very good OTs, but weakness on the interior OL once again...