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    Petras

    As I recall from one of the "pods" (Miller and Co?), they thought the "gap" was much closer than they expected between Petras and Padilla. The verdict was that there is "no way" Petras doesn't start Indiana and that the coaches wouldn't throw Padilla out there at Jack Trice. If there is no...
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    Iowa Basketball Records That Will Never Be Broken

    I had forgotten about 77 in the loss. Iowa dropped 75 in the first half on Notre Dame on March 14, 1970 in the ME Regional consolation game (after the heartbreaker loss to Jacksonville).
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    Players that broke your heart

    I'm afraid I had to look up Stan Joplin and the details of the Toledo game. Long ago - Lester, Peth, Arnold, Speraw, Waite and Hargrave among others. Thanks for the post - lots of interesting stuff on the archived newspaper articles linked on Wikipedia.
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    Players that broke your heart

    I'm going to take a different tack on the thread and show my age. The date was 3/12/1970 and the player that broke my heart was Pembroke Burrows III (Jacksonville FL) with a tip-in with 2 seconds left to beat the Hawks in the Mideast Regionals. Iowa truly could have won it all that year...
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    Are you personally worried about getting the Coronavirus?

    The data will be pretty clear “after the fact”. There is a significant undercount of Covid-19 mortality. Can’t believe I’m saying this but one side will argue that deaths were inappropriately attributed to SARS-Cov-2 but you can’t rationally argue about excess mortality. All one will need to...
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    Are you personally worried about getting the Coronavirus?

    Those patients were in Wuhan. We should soon (unfortunately) have reports of outcomes in Italy and Europe. If confirmed it is a very grim situation and you are correct. We need more data.
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    Are you personally worried about getting the Coronavirus?

    From the Johns Hopkins dashboard. Covid19 case numbers: orange is China and yellow is "all other". This exponential rise is despite the fact that test kits are extraordinarily limited in the US. Montana received our first 200 kits on Monday and I'm quite sure Iowa is in the same boat. Here...
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    Are you personally worried about getting the Coronavirus?

    From the "hospital" we have received a presentation from the American Hospital Association. They are projecting, based upon available data, 98 million US cases of SARSCov2 (Covid19) with a 30-40% community attack rate and 480,000 US deaths. The overall case fatality rate is expected to drop to...
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    Mock 2020 draft

    Check out the top ten https://247sports.com/nfl/new-england-patriots/ContentGallery/2020-NFL-Mock-Draft-131849780/
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    Punting in opponent territory

    New take on an old topic - mentions KF https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/college-teams-are-still-punting-in-opponent-territory-though-not-quite-as-often/
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    Elite WR talent in our backyard

    Is it public knowledge what his "season ending injury" was?
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    The "wrong" Gary is still around

    Can anyone help me find the podcast Jon and Deace did last year where they looked the performance of our AD? As I recall the data were pretty persuasive about how our financial picture isn't on par with our lack of athletic production. I can't find the link.
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    Rob: an idea for a column

    It appears that my request wasn't clear. All I was looking for was a compilation of the write ups on our recently departed stars during their recruitment and after commitment but before they took a snap. The number of "stars" is easily located but what about the projections and aspirations -...
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    Rob: an idea for a column

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    Rob: an idea for a column

    You said it was slow so here you go: I enjoyed your 2/7 piece "Scouting Reports, Hawkeye Comps for '18 Iowa Recruiting Class" and found myself wondering what you and possibly your colleagues had written about recruits who have recently left the program. I'm referring to recent Hawkeye...
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    Link from OSU blog

    https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/film-study/2017/11/87586/film-study-ohio-states-ill-prepared-defense-was-exposed-by-a-fundamentally-sound-offense-in-iowa-city Thought this was interesting
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    99% have CTE. Football will be gone in 10 years. I'm serious.

    This study is not "biased" it is an observational study looking at a sample of "convenience". They report exactly how they came to look at these brains and what they found. Indeed there are no controls as this is a retrospective study looking at the clinical material that was donated. This is...
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    TIGERHAWK AT THE 50: Now Official

    Grew up in IC, love the Hawks and agree that Hayden walks on water but... I agree Josh. It's a cartoon that looks more like a parrot than a hawk or tiger. Let's go back to the flying Hawk or some other logo. I guess that this view point will have to wait a few decades...
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    OT - Your favorite Beatles song

    I'm with you. The "B" side of Hey Jude.
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    Schwartz: Make 2017 All About Akrum Wadley

    While I fully agree with the posts pointing out how unlikely it would be for Wadley to win the Heisman I read the Schwartz piece to say that (no matter how challenging the task) the U of I should do the work off of the field to promote Akrum and his long shot effort. The thesis is that the any...
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