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    Bill Raftery

    You can say it. But I have to disagree. He doesn't really offer much besides his canned lines he seemingly plucks from his soundboard. Talks too much, often over the game. Never feels like he really knows anything about the teams that are playing. And that stupid rapidly-spoken thing he does...
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    I will tell you guys....if Iowa does not make the Final Four this year

    Most pessimistic take I’ve ever seen from a fan of a team ranked #2 in the country. Well done.
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    Make your last minute Iowa seeding predictions

    Final guess: 9 facing 8 FAU for right to play 1 Houston. Hoping for: 10 facing 7 Missouri for right to play 2 Marquette. Would be happy with: 9 facing 8 Auburn for right to play 1 Houston (or Kansas). Would hate: 9 playing 8 Memphis for right to play 1 Alabama.
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    Will BF Be OC Next Spring?

    Here's the exact quote: "I would say I did the best I could this year with the pieces we had to try to put the team in position to win." Breaking down why it sucks: 1. Throws the players under the bus, as previously mentioned, which should be anathema to coaching 2. He is not saying he tried...
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    Badges / Hawkeyes Game Thread

    That is definitely part of it. And I'm sort of inclined to just say there's a systematic mismatch between offense and defense, overall, in the conference in its current state, and it is what it is. But I just don't understand how we so egregiously fail at blocking on such a high percentage of...
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    Badges / Hawkeyes Game Thread

    What is this line's major malfunction? Seriously: what explains the offensive line play being this impossibly bad?
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    How Iowa matches up against Wisconsin?

    A typical Wisconsin defense would be good enough to stonewall our offense (I'm talking one of those we-can't-even-score-a-TD-with-1st-and-goal-inside-the-five type affairs). But that is not this year's Wisconsin. I like us in this game as long as someone on the punt return team doesn't...
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    Bright Sides…

    I'm a generally optimistic person so gonna dump a list of 10 positives. 1. We have the statistically worst offense in the country and are close to being 2-0 in spite of it. 2. We won 10 games last year with an offense that was only slightly better than this. 3. The defense and special teams...
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    Post Mortem: 7-3

    People are gonna talk about how bad Petras was -- and he sucked -- but the offensive line was even an order of magnitude worse. What the hell is wrong with our offensive line? Zero push all game against an FCS defense.
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    Iowa vrs Purdue article

    Nah, I think last year was fundamentally different from a mentality standpoint. We had our sights on much bigger things than revenge against a team we were 1-3 in the last four against. For me, that game was a looking-ahead type of loss more than anything else. We just beat #4, rose to #2, were...
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    Iowa vrs Purdue article

    Link to the article? Interested in reading it. Worth mentioning that besides the loss last year, our previous losses to Purdue were all very tight games that I felt we were extremely unlucky to lose. I don't think our losing to Purdue is really indicative of some sort of systemic problem...
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    Welp...we're officially on O$U's radar

    You can't look at the decision retrospectively to determine whether it was the right call. It was the wrong decision because we had a better chance of scoring, than of turning the ball over and being scored on. Not because we ended up losing in OT. What happened subsequently has no bearing on...
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    Should Daniels have gone down?

    He absolutely should have gone down. It's a guaranteed victory. However, with the slim chance of Minnesota going down, getting a score, onside kick, and another score, and the style points we stood to gain from winning by a couple possessions, at the time I was okay with Daniels taking it in...
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    Getting pumped!

    I felt like we had the beating of them in 2009 and 2010. Now that we shouldn't beat them, maybe we can? It's not like they've looked all-world this year. And how often do we get blown out, good year or bad? Still not expecting a win. But pumped either way.
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    Apathy has set in for most fans....

    No, I wasn't. But seriously though I might bring a huge Basabe cutout to the game next week.
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