Good (and lengthy) interview with Iowa OC Greg Davis

[JonDMiller]

Greg Davis: History buff, speed reader…and 38 years of coaching | Hawk Central

“When Kirk hired me, he asked about taking Iowa’s run game and blending it with my passing game,â€￾ Davis said. “He talked about no-huddle and tempo. He said he’d like to look at it a little, but that he didn’t want to become a no-huddle team, but he wanted to have some of it.â€￾

stuff like this

 

[David79]

That was a great interview.

 

[whammer33024]

work internet sucks. will check it out later at home. pretty intrigued

 

[eveningnewsteam]

I think the days are over of seeing the play clock at 10 and the qb still waiting for the play call to come in.

 

[JHHawk]

Davis talks a good game. He knows the drill. Sounds like a quality person,and an interesting addition to the Iowa staff. It sounds great that Iowa will be mixing it up a bit on offense,but sports is the ultimate reality test of all theories...hope it works.

 

[spliff45]

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Billso]

Wow. Loved it.

Then again I loved Lickliter's intro press conference, so what the hell do I know.

 

[David79]

His offense is going to suck just like every other Iowa offense. They aren't going to recruit Texas that is a bunch of crap. Everything sucks, bleh.

 

[tweeterhawk]

If Greg Davis can implement an effective two-minute drill and get Kirk Ferentz's head out of the seat of his pants in the final 60 seconds of a half or a game, he already will have been a success as OC.

 

[wundergrape]

He calls LeVar Woods "Lamar", but I'm willing to forgive. Seems like a good guy.

 

[GoHawks24]

Will we finally be able to mangage a game clock!? That's what I wanna know. If not, I volunteer to do it for free.

 

[okeefe4prez]

The guy hasn't won a single game at Iowa yet. And when he won in Texas it was with Vince Young and Colt McCoy. He ain't gonna have that caliber of ball player up here. Plus, let's not forget that but for an erroneous procedure penalty on Chandler, the guy would be 0-1 against O'Keefe. His star studded Texas team needed a lot of luck to beat Iowa that day and that was against the pedestrian 2006 Iowa defense. There's no way he would have called those screens to Brodell that went for TDs. Kurt called that absolutely moronic end around pass, too. Argh, this season is gonna be painful to watch.

 

[LGEND24]

The guy hasn't won a single game at Iowa yet. And when he won in Texas it was with Vince Young and Colt McCoy. He ain't gonna have that caliber of ball player up here. Plus, let's not forget that but for an erroneous procedure penalty on Chandler, the guy would be 0-1 against O'Keefe. His star studded Texas team needed a lot of luck to beat Iowa that day and that was against the pedestrian 2006 Iowa defense. There's no way he would have called those screens to Brodell that went for TDs. Kurt called that absolutely moronic end around pass, too. Argh, this season is gonna be painful to watch.

Texas made great adjustments in that game when they realized that McCoy taking snaps under center wasn't getting it done. When they started to spread us out they turned the game around. That Texas team also wasn't really inspired that day to play a mediocre Iowa team and that is on the head coach, not the OC.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Texas made great adjustments in that game when they realized that McCoy taking snaps under center wasn't getting it done. When they started to spread us out they turned the game around. That Texas team also wasn't really inspired that day to play a mediocre Iowa team and that is on the head coach, not the OC.

We were their super bowl.

 

[cmhawks99]

Texas made great adjustments in that game when they realized that McCoy taking snaps under center wasn't getting it done. When they started to spread us out they turned the game around. That Texas team also wasn't really inspired that day to play a mediocre Iowa team and that is on the head coach, not the OC.

Interesting you say this, but then again here is what Greg Davis says about fans.....


Davis on Criticism

“It goes with the territory, but after all these years in the business, it still continues to be an amazing phenomenon to me.

“If Team A throws a long touchdown pass over Team B, the response is “can you believe Johnny got beat?â€￾

“If a play doesn’t work, the response is “can you believe he called that play?â€￾

“It’s not going to change.â€￾

 

[cmhawks99]

Will we finally be able to mangage a game clock!? That's what I wanna know. If not, I volunteer to do it for free.

And then we'd complain about you......and hopefully you'd come back and tell us how much easier it was from your couch….

 

[cmhawks99]

If Greg Davis can implement an effective two-minute drill and get Kirk Ferentz's head out of the seat of his pants in the final 60 seconds of a half or a game, he already will have been a success as OC.

sigh......and yet KF has Iowa on their best run in program history. Pretty cool weve got that all done with a coach who doesn't know what he was doing. But what the hey, people in Baton Rougue think Les Miles is an idiot too....

 

[RocknRollface]

Nice to see Davis address allot of the shortcomings fans have been pointing out for years.

Im both happy and shocked that Ferentz wants to speed up the tempo as well.

 

[cmhawks99]

Nice to see Davis address allot of the shortcomings fans have been pointing out for years.

Im both happy and shocked that Ferentz wants to speed up the tempo as well.

LOL......head down to the Texas board.....ask them about GD's short comings.....fans, they always get it first…the poor ole dumb head coach always misses it. And now here we have a Texas castoff, that their fans thought had short comings……hmmmmmm.

Now what Rocker…..

 

[Golfer]

I read quite a lot about the last two minutes of the first half. I believe, based on the fact they shut down the elevators, and speculation, that this is Iowa stalling to get game film down to the locker room, and this will not change much.

Some years it seems to happen quite a bit. Less last season it seemed.