2014 - The Worst 7-5 Year EverQ

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SamBrownlee48

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This team had talent. It had proven, veteran leadership. It was deep. It stayed healthy. It had a very favorable schedule.


What a complete waste. Bad game management. Bad personnel decisions. Bad play calling. And too many games where the things that Kirk's traditionally done well (i.e. game prep, player development, and halftime adjustments) were not present.

Changes have to be made.
 
SamBrownlee48 said:
This team had talent. It had proven, veteran leadership. It was deep. It stayed healthy. It had a very favorable schedule.


What a complete waste. Bad game management. Bad personnel decisions. Bad play calling. And too many games where the things that Kirk's traditionally done well (i.e. game prep, player development, and halftime adjustments) were not present.

Changes have to be made.
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Well said. Can't dispute a thing you said, except that changes HAVE to be made. That's laughable. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING ever changes in a KF-run regime.
 
koralakers said:
Well said. Can't dispute a thing you said, except that changes HAVE to be made. That's laughable. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING ever changes in a KF-run regime.
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That's not true. Changes were made after 2010 among other things. Those changes were generally for the worse, but they were made. The Iowa passing scheme underwent massive redesign. 2012, Soup, and Vandy was basically sacrificed to install a system where WRs are supposed read the D as opposed to running set routes.
 
okeefe4prez said:
There could not have been bad game management. We have a great game manager running the offense.
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When I was in high school, I worked at McDonald's for a little bit. The General Manager there was one of the best McDonald's managers in the world. He had the awards to prove it, and it was obvious in the way he ran a tight McDonald's ship. He could keep the drive thru lane running from order to drive off in less than two minutes. Always had just enough fresh fries in the bin.

These days, the senior partner is a very lazy man who rarely if ever shows up for work. And when he is there, he's more of a distraction than anything. The place runs in spite of him. And yet, he brings in more money for our firm than the excellent GM could ever hope to. Because he's got talent.
 
Kirk's last hurrah was replacing most of his staff in the past 3 years. It's not working. This loss was 100 percent on the coaching staff. You don't get a lead like that.. At home... And tank... But, that is what average teams do.
 
The meltdown, lead blowing losses are significantly outpacing the good wins. We didn't beat a single good team this year and lost to at least 1 bad team.

ISU, Md, and now nebby are losses squarely on the coaches.

8 wins was the floor this year. Garbage.
 
The 1997 and 2010 seven win regular seasons were worse, as those two teams were incredibly more talented
 
SamBrownlee48 said:
This team had talent. It had proven, veteran leadership. It was deep. It stayed healthy. It had a very favorable schedule.


What a complete waste. Bad game management. Bad personnel decisions. Bad play calling. And too many games where the things that Kirk's traditionally done well (i.e. game prep, player development, and halftime adjustments) were not present.

Changes have to be made.
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I would say they lacked much....they lacked intangibles - leadership among them.
 
What I don't see anyone mentioning is that this Hawkeye team was remarkably uninjured the whole season. I understand the disappointing seasons when we have multiple injuries at the same position, but we didn't have that this year.
 
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