Does Iowa Get A Bowl At 6-6?

brhawks18 said:
This team has been practicing i.e. doing game prep for 12 to 13 weeks and based on what i've seen the offense is getting worse each week.

Normally yes, the more a team practices the better they become. Not seeing it with this staff in charge. I'd like to be optimistic and believe in what they are doing. However, I've actually watched this head coach for 15 years now and without Norm Parker on his staff, 15 extra practices won't do sqaut because KF will have the same philosophy he's had for his head coaching career.

KF and his philosophy of bullying everybody ended when speed became the number one thing for teams. Remember, on a football field the biggest bully's cannot bully people they cannot catch.
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#clueless
 
Iowa will go to a bowl game. How many will follow is a good question. Beat Purdue and lose to MI and NE and I think turnout will be disappointing. Win 2 of the last 3 at least and break out of the offensive funk and I think more excitement follows them. I also think the results of the last 3 games will also play out to how the seats in the stadium are filled early next year as well as determining what the media (and the majority of fans) has to say about the team's fortunes in the off season.

Seems like we're on the edge of rebounding or falling right now.......not a good place to be unless 6-6 with very questionable quality wins trips your trigger.
 
You know you've entered a bizarro world where people insist practice doesn't matter.

I wonder how good this year's team would be if we had zero practices since January. 0-9 for damn sure.
 
ICHawk24 said:
You know you've entered a bizarro world where people insist practice doesn't matter.

I wonder how good this year's team would be if we had zero practices since January. 0-9 for damn sure.
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I didn't insist it won't help, but I don't have any faith that this staff will do much with it anymore. That's all.
 
If Iowa wins out and 2 Big 10 teams go to bcs bowl games I believe Iowa can get into the Outback Bowl. I hope so, they won 2 there and got robbed by the refs on the third. Not to mention it's a New Years Day bowl.
 
One example of the type of player that would really benefit from 15 extra practices is Reggie Spearman. A young guy that has seen the field a little but not much that will be counted on a lot next year.

Ryan Ward, name a freshman WR/defensive back, are a few more that would greatly benefit.
 
A yeah. Hawks travel really well. Ill be in Detroit dodging bullets with the real fans.

Yellow and black is not anyones gang colors so thats neat.
 
tubahawk said:
Please elaborate on what losses Iowa would have otherwise been able to win this year because Rudock and Beathard were able to watch JVB practice 15 more times?
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You have a hard time understanding why an analogy doesn't fit, huh? The point isn't whether Iowa would win any games this year, the point is what difference could it make for development next year?

Look at the sig. Iowa was NOT poised to make a huge jump this year. That is NOT going to be the case next year.
 
If you've never gone to a bowl game, any bowl game, you need to go to one.

I've been fortunate to have gone to 5 (Outback x 3, Cap-1 and Insight).

It doesn't have to be a BCS-level bowl to be a great time.

It doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg either if you're smart about where you stay, etc. Tix are pricey, agreed, but the rest of it you can control somewhat.

Sooooo....if we do go to Detroit, go and see it for yourself.
 
HawkeyeMcNutt said:
I think a more interesting question is does a 6-6 Iowa team get selected ahead of a 7-5 Minnesota team?
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Heck yes. 1) Iowa's fanbase is exponetially better at traveling than The Goofs, and 2) We pummeled them earlier in the season, wasn't even close, 2nd easiest win all year so far.
 
Hawknick said:
If Iowa wins out and 2 Big 10 teams go to bcs bowl games I believe Iowa can get into the Outback Bowl. I hope so, they won 2 there and got robbed by the refs on the third. Not to mention it's a New Years Day bowl.
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OSU and Wisconsin - BCS Bowl
MSU - CapOne (MSU makes B1G championship game) and then Outback.

Nebraska is 6-2 with games at Michigan, MSU, at Penn State and Iowa.
Even if Nebraska finishes 7-5, and somehow Iowa finishes 8-4, I still think that the Outback would take Nebraska.
Nebraska has never played at the Outback Bowl and would bring double the fans Iowa would.
 
If Nebraska collapses, losing out, has coachig turmoil over the losses, etc etc. That would not make them vert attractive to the Outback Bowl. I have to check Michigan's schedule too, I know they can't lose to Nebraska, but lose every other one I think. Give me a minute.
 
Michigan has to lose @NW @ Iowa and against O$u. That would put them at 7-5. Iowa needs to win big against them to show the bowl scouts that they want to take Iowa.
 
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