Adam Ritterberg sums it up

[kmajhawk]

ESPN's Rittenberg sums it up well in his blog and doesn't hold back.

Blackshirts, Burkhead lift Huskers to Indy - College Football Nation Blog - ESPN

Spot-on in my opinion. Coud have been even harsher in his assessment. Iowa's sports media should be ashamed of themselves that the most honest, accurate, critical assessment of Kirk Ferentz and his Iowa football program is coming from a Big Ten sports columnist who I believe is based in Chicago.

Jim Rome should have a field day with the game and this program on Monday.

 

[CAARHawk]

Yunno, the sad thing is this doesn't even warrant Rome taking air time to discuss. Unless it is to compare KF and John L on the grounds of salary and whether the school is even considering bringing either back next season.

 

[INTIMIDATORHawk]

The fans are saying it. The local media is saying it, the national media is saying it, the game announcers are saying it....

When will Kurt actually listen and hear it for himself?

My guess is that Brian Ferentz is about to blow a gasket. Hopefully he and his dad have a "come to jesus" meeting over the off-season. IMO, Brian is the only hope we have of seeing Iowa abandon its conservative ways under KF.

 

[tomhawk80907]

The fans are saying it. The local media is saying it, the national media is saying it, the game announcers are saying it....

Sometimes the pain can feel good. After 31 years of running every day there are times it's true. I now want to see captain coward laughed out of his profession by his peers. He'll, it's already begun.........are you listening CC. He defies logic and defending and it seems the game passed him by quite some time ago.

 

[GhostofBTT]

I don't have a problem with running on 3rd and 4 yards. Put the ball in the hands of your best player and take it out of the hands of your worst.

 

[MeatMan]

My guess is that Brian Ferentz is about to blow a gasket. Hopefully he and his dad have a "come to jesus" meeting over the off-season. IMO, Brian is the only hope we have of seeing Iowa abandon its conservative ways under KF.

i think that Brian just might be the only person in the world who could get through to the old man. let's all keep our fingers crossed.

 

[MeatMan]

I don't have a problem with running on 3rd and 4 yards. Put the ball in the hands of your best player and take it out of the hands of your worst.

just maybe not a zone read handoff. go with what had worked on the outside zone stretch play then. and then go for it on 4th if you're going to run in that situation. had the wind at their back there, so if you're ever going to throw it, that was the time.

 

[hawkfan340]

just maybe not a zone read handoff. go with what had worked on the outside zone stretch play then. and then go for it on 4th if you're going to run in that situation. had the wind at their back there, so if you're ever going to throw it, that was the time.

Funny thing is I think JVB could have picked up the first if he would have just kept it. Nobody on D was even looking at Vandenberg. There's no point running some zone option, when the QB doesn't have the option. If you do that, you're just letting the d-end crash down unblocked(!) on the running back.

Even Stanzi picked up a 1st against against PSU back in the day when he kept the ball because everyone was shocked he kept it. (And IIRC, I don't think Stanzi was supposed to keep it... I remember Robinson fought him pretty hard for the ball in the backfield.)

 

[MeatMan]

Funny thing is I think JVB could have picked up the first if he would have just kept it. Nobody on D was even looking at Vandenberg. There's no point running some zone option, when the QB doesn't have the option. If you do that, you're just letting the d-end crash down unblocked(!) on the running back.

Even Stanzi picked up a 1st against against PSU back in the day when he kept the ball because everyone was shocked he kept it. (And IIRC, I don't think Stanzi was supposed to keep it... I remember Robinson fought him pretty hard for the ball in the backfield.)

and that pretty much sums up the GD failure. that is not an "iowa" play because we never run our QB. so, in that situation it does not benefit Iowa as you point out. it was pretty apparent that GD forgot several times this year that Colt McCoy and/or Vince Young was not the QB.

 

[DTF]

There really was almost no effort to win games. The offensive play calls completely ignored situations and showed no sense of urgency. Every drive was treated as its own independent event, no regard for what worked well or what worked poorly or how much they were losing by. No concerted effort to get first downs or sustain drives. Call three generic plays, then punt, show no creativity or attempt to buck the trend of offensive anemia. Complete disregard of how to win football games.