Changes on the horizon...
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Fryowa
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I agree.
Most posters here agree.
Most media members agree it sounds like.
I thought Copeland's interview was the best one in the history of Iowa football except for Kirk's take the pig and leave the timeouts sound byte.
Fryowa
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Liestikow said he feels Kaleb will stay so it leaves those two and Patterson as far as guys that would materially impact the current room. Maybe it's Patterson. Who knows.
I am not interested in a retread OC (ala Greg Davis), and I am not interested in a retread QB.
We are going to lose a bunch of people off a historically good Iowa defense. The O has hit rock bottom. This is the perfect time to start a rebuild.
Pick a young OC with a track-record of success and innovation at a smaller school in the upper-midwest. Someone who other coaches rave about. Someone with a philosophy of balanced football in a sense compatible with the modern game. Don't worry about pedigree, lack of P5 experience, just hand him the keys, and get out of the way.
Play for the future. At QB, pick the best of Lainez, May, and Labas (or DeJean), and roll with him. Or get a young guy out of the portal. Are any of you excited about McNamara (or any other 1-year stopgap) coming in and running the same offense that Petras just ran?
Hit the portal hard to rebuild OL. Figure out whatever the Hell has gone wrong with that position over the past 2 years, and fix it.
Likewise, sell your program to young WR in the portal. Convince them everything will be different with this new OC, and they have a chance to help build the "New Iowa Hawkeyes."
And re-evaluate the "Iowa Way." There is lots of good there (personal responsibility, accountability, controlling what you can control, minimizing mistakes, etc.)...but a team afraid to make mistakes is going to have a low ceiling. We have to be willing to play young players through mistakes, we have to tolerate some risk. Sure, we will lose some games because of it (see Jeff Brohm), but we will also win because of it (see Jeff Brohm). There has to be some point on the spectrum between KF and Brohm that is more optimal than current.
It won't kill me to see the Hawkeyes lose next season, but it might kill me to see them lose in the exact same ways that have haunted them recently.
We are going to lose a bunch of people off a historically good Iowa defense. The O has hit rock bottom. This is the perfect time to start a rebuild.
Pick a young OC with a track-record of success and innovation at a smaller school in the upper-midwest. Someone who other coaches rave about. Someone with a philosophy of balanced football in a sense compatible with the modern game. Don't worry about pedigree, lack of P5 experience, just hand him the keys, and get out of the way.
Play for the future. At QB, pick the best of Lainez, May, and Labas (or DeJean), and roll with him. Or get a young guy out of the portal. Are any of you excited about McNamara (or any other 1-year stopgap) coming in and running the same offense that Petras just ran?
Hit the portal hard to rebuild OL. Figure out whatever the Hell has gone wrong with that position over the past 2 years, and fix it.
Likewise, sell your program to young WR in the portal. Convince them everything will be different with this new OC, and they have a chance to help build the "New Iowa Hawkeyes."
And re-evaluate the "Iowa Way." There is lots of good there (personal responsibility, accountability, controlling what you can control, minimizing mistakes, etc.)...but a team afraid to make mistakes is going to have a low ceiling. We have to be willing to play young players through mistakes, we have to tolerate some risk. Sure, we will lose some games because of it (see Jeff Brohm), but we will also win because of it (see Jeff Brohm). There has to be some point on the spectrum between KF and Brohm that is more optimal than current.
It won't kill me to see the Hawkeyes lose next season, but it might kill me to see them lose in the exact same ways that have haunted them recently.
Fryowa
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LeVar Woods checks every box you mentioned other than OC experience.
I'd rather have him because he's a known quantity rather than rolling a thousand-sided die on some G5 hero.
I simply don't know about him. He certainly has a track-record for innovation, and he is raved about. But I believe offensive play-calling is a unique animal...you can have a great football mind, and you can still suck at play-calling. I would rather go with someone who has proven to have that knack. But I would rather go with your plan than status quo.
If he doesn't go to Nebraska I'll be surprised...There are a couple of glaring omissions from this typical thank-you-but-I'm-moving-on post by Keegan. Anyone else picking up on it?
I could just be reading too much into it.
HuckFinn
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Yup. Picking up on itThere are a couple of glaring omissions from this typical thank-you-but-I'm-moving-on post by Keegan. Anyone else picking up on it?
I could just be reading too much into it.
ssckelley
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What's this supposed to mean?
ssckelley
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Xavier perhaps?
spliff45
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Yep. I don't know if that's true or not, just the scuttlebutt.
HawkGold
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He's on Hopium
InGoodCo
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It means, if you think Iowa isn't in the portal you don't leave the walls of HN very often. They are hosting portal guys this weekend.
ssckelley
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We can't rejoice that?
InGoodCo
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No, I just don't think losing a WR who only had a few flashes and was hurt all season is a huge loss. Everyone is freaking out, and that's fine - Iowa could be just fine, the fact is neither of us know.
