Daviyon Nixon 5 BIG Questions??????

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DBQHAWK85

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Why did he not play in the 4 allowed games when he could still maintain his red shirt?

Is playing in the 4 allowed games to get some BIG experience too much to ask while focusing on academics?

Is there more to the story I'm not getting?

Will he play in the bowl game since it's between semesters and there is no school work?

was it a wasted year?
 
I think there were many FR who will redshirt that didn't play in their alloted 4 games. I don't know why, other, than kirk has always played the 1's beyond a point in which subs to get reps. and it is a new thing so we can immediately say kirk isn't going to embrace it across the board.
 
Stanzi said:
I don't know why it would be a wasted year when he was already redshirting. Defensive line is probably our deepest position group so it would have been difficult to find him playing time. He's still getting to practice with the team while also focusing on academics.
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Everyone should have received playing time in the Illinois game, right?
 
Stanzi said:
I don't know why it would be a wasted year when he was already redshirting. Defensive line is probably our deepest position group so it would have been difficult to find him playing time. He's still getting to practice with the team while also focusing on academics.
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I agree he is getting practice with the team and it will help him.... BUT nothing is more beneficial than live fire or real game experience if nothing else just to calm the nerves and the best he can get is one game now?
 
IowaLawWasRight said:
Guys, he was academically ineligible. He wasn't sitting out for his health or to study more. He wasn't eligible to play.
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That isn’t true at all. He was absolutely eligible...but the staff chose to put him on academic redshirt in order to allow him the time to acclimate to a university setting given his past academic struggles.
 
SpiderRico said:
That isn’t true at all. He was absolutely eligible...but the staff chose to put him on academic redshirt in order to allow him the time to acclimate to a university setting given his past academic struggles.
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either way, he wasn’t allowed to play this year to answer the OP’s question.
 
thefizz said:
We played at Illinois and teams dress less players on the road than at home. I'd be surprised if any redshirted players made that trip.
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Understood, but I thought I read that multiple players that made the trip didn't play in the game.

Anyways, what about the N. Illinois game?
 
If I had to guess (and I do cuz right now Russian agents are holding a gun to my head and ordering me to guess, only Barta knows why) I would say he was held out for more than one reason. Yes, he needs to acclimate to academic life, but he also needs to get his GPA to a level that he can withstand a semester or two where grades suffer as a result of the commitment to football. Look, the walk-ons podcast makes it clear playing football at Iowa (and I'm sure at every P5 program) is a 40 hour a week job 12 months of a year. So do the math. Full-time job + full class schedule + social life = YUUUUUGE risk factors. And if someone struggled with Wisconsin high school . . . well let's just say their study habits will need some adjusting.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Yeah, but Iowa Law is more of an expert on Nixon than Nixon's position coach.:)
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I probably shouldn't write this, but Morgan is a chief agent in the massive disinformation campaign that has been going on at Iowa for several years. Now is as good a time as any since I'm letting this cat out of the bag, but Iowa has actually recruited and signed several 5 star wide receivers, then sequestered them and, as part of a re-education program, has turned them into art history majors, from whom none of us will ever hear from any of them again. It's evil, but effective.
 
SpiderRico said:
That isn’t true at all. He was absolutely eligible...but the staff chose to put him on academic redshirt in order to allow him the time to acclimate to a university setting given his past academic struggles.
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I hope Iowa has courses for this problem.
 
homes said:
I probably shouldn't write this, but Morgan is a chief agent in the massive disinformation campaign that has been going on at Iowa for several years. Now is as good a time as any since I'm letting this cat out of the bag, but Iowa has actually recruited and signed several 5 star wide receivers, then sequestered them and, as part of a re-education program, has turned them into art history majors, from whom none of us will ever hear from any of them again. It's evil, but effective.
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I had my suspicions...
 
karras said:
If I had to guess (and I do cuz right now Russian agents are holding a gun to my head and ordering me to guess, only Barta knows why) I would say he was held out for more than one reason. Yes, he needs to acclimate to academic life, but he also needs to get his GPA to a level that he can withstand a semester or two where grades suffer as a result of the commitment to football. Look, the walk-ons podcast makes it clear playing football at Iowa (and I'm sure at every P5 program) is a 40 hour a week job 12 months of a year. So do the math. Full-time job + full class schedule + social life = YUUUUUGE risk factors. And if someone struggled with Wisconsin high school . . . well let's just say their study habits will need some adjusting.
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What’s the second reason?
 
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