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Plus, whether it is Dale Jones or not, I like the idea of going 2-year JUCO for the big man depth if there isn't high school player available. This is already turning into a big class (six players, yes?) and the JUCO Iowa gets will fill out the 2-year stint Trey Dickerson would have had if he...

The major hole in White's offensive game right now is he is not a great three-point shooter. He knows it, and opposing teams know it. So it seems like he can get stuck on the perimeter a lot without a lot of driving lanes because other teams are aware of the fact that he wants to drive his...

He is likely referring to the 4-star QB Beneventi who has also committed (in the 2015 class).

I actually remember Iowa's defense last year being surprisingly decent at times-- as opposed to the awful fans were worried about in the beginning of the year. Although there were some exceptions (see: Central Michigan, Penn State, Michigan) where everything went wrong. The offense was by far...

People have mentioned Cyrus Tate, but for the above reasons Gabe actually reminds me of Kurt Looby. Looby only really started to figure things out his senior year after not playing organized ball for that long and he ended up in the NBA D-League. Would have been nice for him I think to have had...

I think the original premise of this post is sound. Although you could pretty much restate it for every team as "We will lose to a team with lesser talent this year because of our major weakness and the team not playing to its full potential." Iowa definitely needs to improve its three-point...

In terms of defending against different backs on the stretch play, I would think Canzeri or Bullock would be a much bigger threat to cut back through the hole on the stretch versus Weisman who has had most of his best runs following the path of the blocking (almost always to the left). I'm not...

Iowa was on pace to score 60 during the Minnesota game until the offense fell off a cliff right before the second half. They actually have showed a lot of potential to be a vibrant scoring machine with the running game, but-- and this is no small thing-- it won't reach its full potential or even...

I think Iowa stopped running because Minnesota was run blitzing like crazy the second half. If Vandenberg and the receivers had coordinated better he could have had a huge day.

I think there's room for a changeup back to Weisman, whether that be Bullock, Garmon or Canzeri. The one thing I haven't see Weisman do great so far is cut back against the stretch play, which is something the greats like Russell and Green were so good at doing. I think having a speedy slasher...

One confusing thing he was trying yesterday was a sort of a jump pass a couple of times. Did anyone else notice this? He'd sort of do a retreating hop as if trying to throw over the rush, and then wing it (inaccurately). I'm not going to hate on the guy, but he's got a lot of work to do if Iowa...

I still like Coker as a Hawkeye running back, especially the freshman version of him. I think Coker got a bit overweight (not fat necessarily, just put on too much weight) and this took away from a lot of his speed and burst through the hole. Weisman is a cut 225 now, and Coker was probably...

I also imagine Iowa will recruit at least one good running back before closing out this recruiting class, probably two? So if you assume that some of these players won't make it (not a bad assumption) just plug in those recruits to the depth chart.

Won't argue with that.

Montee Ball should have gotten 300 yards going against that defensive front.

Iowa fans would love it if the Hawkeye offense was as prolific as Oregon's, right? Well guess who throws it horizontal a ton? As do many other successful spread offenses. I would agree that Iowa needed many many more intermediate and long throws to mix in with the short passing game, but...

If you notice, that NIU team got better as the year went on, which is usually an indication of a group of players getting better. I would imagine that improvement would carry on to the next (this) year. That said: 1. Iowa probably isn't that great of a team right now. Not a huge surprise. 2...

I said they had a long way to go :)

If this team can get its blocking and pass game worked out it can be good. But man do they seem like they have a long way to go. Certainly seems like a bunch of confused people out there.

More fearless predictions: Iowa will lose to one team from Indiana (my guess, Purdue) Iowa will beat Northwestern and Minnesota Iowa will beat one of the three tops teams in the Legends: Michigan, Nebraska or Michigan State. My guess is Nebraska to finish 7-5. Garmon will be awkward but then...