Former NW QB Shares why Cats are Besting the Hawks

[AHawk1]

Talk about a knock-down drag-out thread. Awesome!!!! Will anything change??

The only thing I can say is at least the Hawks are still undefeated this season, unlike Easton in this thread.

 

[CP87]

Very true. Then again maybe Chompers was just playing it safe with the lead. I'm a fan of always attacking until the game is over so it makes me somewhat bias.

That would not be the definition of playing it safe. For every team I have ever been around, "punt safe" is run by keeping your base D in, with the exception of a PR coming in for someone (usually a safety). The D plays as if the O is running a play (no setting up a return), and the PR just tries to get to the ball and fair-catch it. If Ferentz was really playing it safe, he would have done this. It would be more reasonable to suggest that he was trying to be aggressive by setting up a return to get into FG position and put the game out of reach.

I am not saying that Ferentz is faultless for his team's failure to stop the fake punt, but in this case his mistake was not from being over-conservative, but rather not conservative enough.

 

[alexzelada]

Oh no, Jon. Are you impugning the coaching skills of Norm Parker? I've told morons this for years - Iowa loses to NU because we run the same dang defense virtually all the time and Northwestern knows exactly how to pick it apart like the typical virginal NU student picks the scabbed over acne off of his face. Yet O'Keefe got blamed for virtually every loss we ever suffered during his tenure. Fitz knows precisely how to just take that defense apart and keep our offense with its big o-linemen off the field so that his defense is still fresh in the fourth quarter when they need a stop. It disgusts me to say it, but Fitz is a far superior coach to Ferentz. Fitz is 50-39 in his tenure, which includes an abysmal first season where he was thrust into the head coaching job way too early when Coach Walker passed away. It bears repeating that during this same period, Ferentz is 51-38. It absolutely disgusts me that with our facilities, fan support, gigantic coaching staff budget, outrageous ticket prices, lax academic standards and uncanny ability to look the other way at many off the field transgressions there is so much parity in on the field performance between NU and Iowa.

Norm Parker had more to do with Kirk's success than anyone else . . . including Kirk. Are you new to Hawkeye football?

 

[okeefe4prez]

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Yep, only works against the likes of MAC teams, ISU, Indiana, Purdue, Minnesota, NwU ... you know, the "inferior" opponents. (Geez, Iowa must've had some tuff schedules the past couple seasons.)

Add Northern Illinois to the list.

Northwestern lost to Miami of Ohio in their miracle 1995 season, so all is not lost guys.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Yet despite all of that and despite his crappy bowl record, if he beats Cal on Saturday and Iowa loses to NIU (both of which are distinct possibilities), he and Ferentz will have an identical record during Fitz's tenure.

Hey OK4P - do Kurt and Pat now have identical records bince opening day of 2006? Oh, they do. Wow. How is that possible? Kurt is totes awesome.

So anyway, Kurt totes could have rolled into a Pac 10/12 stadium for a late night game and lost his starting QB on the second offensive play of the game but still won. Kurt purty much dominates Pac 10/12 teams in road games.