Cant we all just get along?

[HomerChampless]

Season just needs to get here. No one can agree about anything.

Here's something we can all agree upon... half of us are going to be screaming "I told you so" about midway through the season. I honestly have no clue whether that will be the KF supporters or the haters. Should be interesting.

The bolded is wrong. All Hawkeye football fans are gonna scream "I told you so" about halfway through the season. This is the misfire among the Hawkeye base.

 

[HomerChampless]

I'm so confused. If I love the Hawks and want to support them am I supposed to like KF now or like him when he's not the coach anymore?

Depends if Iowa wins... Unless you're a KF lover, in which case you always....
Unless you're a KF hater, in which case you always....

Cleared things up?

 

[hawkeyebob62]

The bolded is wrong. All Hawkeye football fans are gonna scream "I told you so" about halfway through the season. This is the misfire among the Hawkeye base.

Uh...the "misfire" took place between your ears, sport.

 

[HomerChampless]

I am solely concerned with the success of the Iowa football program, and who said "facts" aren't allowed?

If it was a "fact" that firing KF and hiring coach ???? would fix everything, then I would be on board. It isn't a fact, and we have no idea who Iowa would hire, what their success rate is, how much experience they have, or if they are a good head coach...

...Yet good coaches aren't guaranteed success... That is the nature of the business.

I guess the long and short of it is, to me KF has had success in the past, and I don't see why he can't have success in the future. As long as we are near .500 this year, we shake off last year, I think we are in good shape for '14 to contend for the CCG. I know many on here think he should be gone now, and that is fine, and these things are a matter of "opinion", not "fact".

I'm not saying it's good to fire Curt. It would be disastrous. It would mean Iowa's program has fallen and can't get up.

Here are my facts: KF is a conservative coach. There's nothing wrong with that. -Alabama has a conservative coach.- A conservative coach wants the offense to be conservative (not make mistakes), while the defense strangles the other team's offense.

Iowa's current defensive philosophy was effective as long as the B1G predominantly had offenses that were '3 yards and a cloud of dust'. Little passing, no such thing as spread offenses. Iowa's secondary could be faster versions of linebackers that plugged the line of scrimmage more often than pass protect.

That's not the way B1G offenses are now. Heck, even Wisconsin's offense has spread and passing qualities to it. So, Iowa's defense is weaker because its pass defense can't defend against the pass, and linebackers and DBs aren't able to defend against spread offenses. A conservative coach, like KF, has a defense that can't strangle opponents.

What would make his/Iowa's defense stronger? Athletic DBs that can ALSO pass protect. Pass protect means preventing the pass completion.

Ferentz is trying to compensate for his weaker defense with more offensive wrinkles, but that's not KF. When he does it, like in the Pitt game, he cries. I've got more, but this is getting too long.

The short is Iowa, right now, is an old fashioned team.