Dinardo on the Score

[JHHawk]

just now, said if Iowa will go as far as Ricky Stanzi carries them,and he thinks if Ricky takes care of the football, Iowa will still win the Big Ten,even without Jewel.

I like Dinardo....cuz he has faith in the Hawkeyes and is a smart football man.
I agree with him.

Now he is talking about Terrell Pryor...says his own talent is a negative cus as long as he can run for the 1st down, he will never be a pocket passer. Contrasts him with Bolden of PSU ,who does not think run first.

Says Michigan is suspect til that defense gets fixed. Not happening this year.

Dinardo says BTN ratings were off the chart this past weekend...probably due to OSU and Michigan.

Funny aside, he was on the phone from a football practice and the Score guys asked which practice and he admitted he was not supposed to be there and would not divulge.
I suspect he was up in Evanston watching his nephew Jack practice with NW...and did not want to come off as biased.

 

[jameskalina]

Dinardo knows his stuff.

If he still thinks Iowa can win the Big Ten as long as Ricky takes care of the football without Hampton then that's good enough for me.

 

[iowahawkeyes89]

Or if we avoid running into a blocked punt, kickoff return and a pick six all in one game.

Usually that helps...

I credit AZ for capitalizing on our mistakes, but I still think we ****** away that game.

 

[racerhawk]

Or if we avoid running into a blocked punt, kickoff return and a pick six all in one game.

Usually that helps...

I credit AZ for capitalizing on our mistakes, but I still think we ****** away that game.

I agree completely.

It would've been interesting to see those two teams play a "regular" game. Iowa was down 14-0 immediately, and that made it a very different game. Having said that, Arizona drove the field and won the game.

 

[ThunderHawk]

Stanzi has a better shot at the NFL than Pryor. Maybe not at getting drafted higher, but at sticking around.

 

[hawkfan2679]

Stanzi has a better shot at the NFL than Pryor. Maybe not at getting drafted higher, but at sticking around.

At QB, probably. Pryor, if he is as fast as the tOSU fans like to allege, might have a career as a wideout, a la Brad Smith from Missouri.

 

[HawkeyeSox]

Di Nardo's weekly appearance is one of the only reasons I tune into the Score anymore. Other than White Sox games.

McNeil is ok (at least he talks about college football more than once a week) and Boers and Bernstein can be funny at times but often just come across as smug and condescending.

I also don't really need 18 straight hours of Bears analysis.

 

[PeoriaHWKI]

I think a lot of the media see this as a 1 time meltdown and not an overall picture of the program. Lou Holtz who never gives Iowa respect said the very next day that Iowa got thmeleves down and battled back... and that to be down by that much on the road to a ranked team and almost pull this off means Iowa is a very good team. Almost implying this was a fluke.
I think we are seeing the media finally come around in handing us a little respect.

 

[Jeebus]

I think a lot of the media see this as a 1 time meltdown and not an overall picture of the program. Lou Holtz who never gives Iowa respect said the very next day that Iowa got thmeleves down and battled back... and that to be down by that much on the road to a ranked team and almost pull this off means Iowa is a very good team. Almost implying this was a fluke.
I think we are seeing the media finally come around in handing us a little respect.

I think anyone that actually watched the game has respect for Iowa. It's the people that didn't watch or don't understand football that see the pick-six and the score and think that Iowa is some chump team.

You can't discount emotion in football. Arizona was FULLY invested in this game. Their last national game was a complete and utter embarrassment. This was their redemption game. That is no small motivation.

 

[das89hawk]

What is the truth? Iowa was overranked or AZ under ranked. AZ isn't getting a ton of love for beating Hawks. Look at last year, Iowa didn't get huge bump after beating AZ in Iowa City. I hope Az wins Pac-10

 

[fufred]

Gerry DiNardo was the model of B10 coaching consistency, I mean for 3 straight years he went 1-7 in conference as Indiana's HC. He once even finished as high as tied for 9th in the B10. Gerry DiNardo is the last guy I would listen to when it came to the B10, he's clueless.....his rap on a splitting carries vs. having a "feature back" was one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard.

 

[homerHAWKeye777]

Gerry DiNardo was the model of B10 coaching consistency, I mean for 3 straight years he went 1-7 in conference as Indiana's HC. He once even finished as high as tied for 9th in the B10. Gerry DiNardo is the last guy I would listen to when it came to the B10, he's clueless.....his rap on a splitting carries vs. having a "feature back" was one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard.

fufred -

I think that the issue there was that picking on a problem with Ohio State was more like splitting hairs. Given how the tOSU OL closed the season last year ... the 2010 tOSU squad appeared to have precious few vulnerabilities. He needed to take some sort of angle ... I don't think that his choice was necessarily a bad one.