Did The OLine Improve?

[Fryowa]

Will you make me a cookbook with your go-to recipes?

Haha anytime

 

[Fryowa]

Hawkeyegamefilm retweets his stuff. Must be legit.

Hawkeyegamefilm is definitely legit. He makes everyone here, including myself look like a knuckledragging mouth breather.

 

[okeefe4prez]

College XC - Men is 8K or 10K (championships), Women is 6K. There is a movement to make both men's and women's distance 8K but it hasn't gotten much traction.

High School XC - 5K for boys and girls

Middle school XC - usually either 2K or 2 miles. In Iowa middle school is 2 miles.

In High school it's pretty common for courses to be slightly longer or shorter.

My son is 6 and he has 4 meets this fall. First one was a mile, next one is 2, after that is 2.5, last one is a 5k. I can't believe the middle school races are that short up there. I guess it's no wonder all the football teams up that way other than Ohio totally suck now.

 

[ohhawk]

“We’ll start with Iowa, and talking to coaches this week who have played the Hawkeyes, the biggest surprise to me was that they said Iowa’s offensive line was both soft and underwhelming with talent."

ESPN writer / 10/29
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Even improvement may not be enough for what remains on the schedule................I think a good litmus test is ahead Saturday.

 

[Iceman]

One thing that made them look much worse than they are is the fact that, in losses, they went up against the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 6th ranked defenses (going into Saturday).

One thing that made them look much better is that they played against the 84th ranked defense.

They play against the 4th, 62nd 81st, 97th ranked defenses.

For perspective, they scored 27 against the 42nd, 27 against the 84th, and 7 against the 4th ranked FCS defense. Obviously that doesn't account for defensive TD's, safeties, or short fields.

Not sure where I'm going with this. I just woke up from my nap and I'm sitting on my davenport trying to figure out what to have for supper.

The rest of the teams we play are bad teams. All of them have won zero big games. Our line will look better just for this reason.

 

[BigD]

College XC - Men is 8K or 10K (championships), Women is 6K. There is a movement to make both men's and women's distance 8K but it hasn't gotten much traction.

High School XC - 5K for boys and girls

Middle school XC - usually either 2K or 2 miles. In Iowa middle school is 2 miles.

In High school it's pretty common for courses to be slightly longer or shorter.

On the day I retired (my first day of official cross country) I think we ran two miles. That’s a long way for an asthmatic. I know my friend really pushed himself. He did tell me he ran like 17 miles in one day. It may not have been non stop however. He may not have been actually running and may have been more of a jog. I know my daughter and her husband have done 5Ks a few times which is just a little over three miles I think.

 

[BigD]

Well we will see how we do against Purdue. Hopefully this is the beginning of a turn around.

Not going to believe it however until I see it. I did say more than once Iowa could go 8-4. I think 6-6 is more realistic however but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it. This would be with wins against Nebby and possibly Wisconsin. Looking for losses against Purdue and Minnesota.

 

[hawkdrummer1]

Seems like the sort of situation where Barnett might find a new position in the off-season, and KF will thank him for all he did at Iowa.

One more asst coach that didn't pan out.