Mississippi pissed it down their legs with stupid penalties not just garden variety offensive line holding, plus they pissed it away with a perfect pass, dropped, which was right in the hands of their receiver for what was probably a game winning TD. All which is good for Iowa, been on the wrong side of those too many times. Mississippi got what "they deserved," not the best characters that NCAA FB has to offer. Good riddance. Go back home.
Are the quarterbacks in the NFL better than what Iowa had when they were in college?
I disagree. A man's physical strength still peaks late 20's or early 30's. Guys aren't ready for the NFL earlier. The League has made a conscious decision that unless you are a total star rush end, shutdown corner, QB, LT or splash player on offense, it has almost no use for you past your first contract because the cap has put a premium on a handful of positions. There are obviously guys like Hitchens who are solid role players and get paid okay, but the youth movement in the NFL is of their own making and it has really harmed the quality of the game and it is going to castrate college football the same way the NBA has castrated college basketball.
Is there a study that can verify this? I see plenty of HS linemen that look physically ready to play in the NFL, 19 year old kids bench press and squatting numbers unfathomable to us in our youth. Perhaps it's the ligaments and tendons that need more time to mature. I always thought it was the mental side that needed full development and that still may be true, but then you look at all the true freshmen on that stage last night and they looked oblivious to the moment.
He sounds jealous.
Most muscles contain "fast twitch fibers" and "slow twitch fibers". It's the slow twitch, especially in your chest and legs, that contain the most mass, and take the longest to develop. I don know if it can be proven, but perhaps modern medicine, both legal and illegal, can speed up the maturation process of slow twitch fibers.
