Hawks are ranked again...

[MikeyLikesIowa]

Iowa is ranked #23 in this week's coaches poll. It hasn't been pretty (at least offensively), but I think we deserve it at 6-1. We haven't played a really tough schedule, but they haven't all been pushovers either. I think finishing 11-1 is very possible, but 10-2 or worse seems more likely.

 

[okeefe4prez]

I hate it. I want to be unranked. You get ranked and then guys start reading the press clippings in the newspaper about how good they are and that's when guys make mistakes. If I was Ferentz and there wasn't a Russian embargo right now I would send the team up to Siberia to practice and make the guys take classes remote. Just like that documentary about that boxer who was gonna fight that Russian guy who killed his buddy in an exhibition fight. Go unorthodox as hell.

 

[HawkeyezBull]

Simply put you have to be able to put more points cause there will be a day when the Defense isn't up to the same standard. Look at the Braves and Dodgers in the NLDS both top-tier teams until their offenses ran into a wall. Hopefully, the blocking nad holes created in this game are the tip of the iceberg and we can actually start putting up 200 yards+ per week. If that happens then yeah 11-1 is possible

 

[MikeyLikesIowa]

I hate it. I want to be unranked. You get ranked and then guys start reading the press clippings in the newspaper about how good they are and that's when guys make mistakes. If I was Ferentz and there wasn't a Russian embargo right now I would send the team up to Siberia to practice and make the guys take classes remote. Just like that documentary about that boxer who was gonna fight that Russian guy who killed his buddy in an exhibition fight. Go unorthodox as hell.

I've never been concerned about this. I think KF has always done a pretty good job keeping the players focused on what matters.

 

[okeefe4prez]

I've never been concerned about this. I think KF has always done a pretty good job keeping the players focused on what matters.

Old Kirk did, but now he's got guys running around on Twitter and the Gram. The internet makes legs weak.

 

[MikeyLikesIowa]

Old Kirk did, but now he's got guys running around on Twitter and the Gram. The internet makes legs weak.

I still don't think this is a problem.

 

[NCHawker]

2023 team is better than 2022. The 200 rushing yards, no doubt figured into the ranking.

National talking heads already having a hoot about the possibility of Iowa winning the west.

 

[guffus]

Losing 31-0 to PSU is enough to keep you humble. Nobody is worried about Iowa getting a big head.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

Old Kirk did, but now he's got guys running around on Twitter and the Gram. The internet makes legs weak.

Yep, old man agrees.

 

[Hawkboys]

You misspelled rancid!!

 

[Teddy]

Iowa will be favored in all the remaining games. Winning is winning. If Iowa wins 10 or 11 games the manner of doing it is irrelevant.

Wisconsin is better than any team remaining on Iowa's schedule, or at least more talented and better coached. Iowa's defense is suddenly going to fail against dogs like Illinois and Nebraska?

 

[Northside Hawk]

I hate it. I want to be unranked. You get ranked and then guys start reading the press clippings in the newspaper about how good they are and that's when guys make mistakes. If I was Ferentz and there wasn't a Russian embargo right now I would send the team up to Siberia to practice and make the guys take classes remote. Just like that documentary about that boxer who was gonna fight that Russian guy who killed his buddy in an exhibition fight. Go unorthodox as hell.

Of course that was filmed in British Columbia and not Siberia. Icicles don't form in 40 degree below zero weather. They need a freeze/thaw cycle.

Still my second favorite Rocky movie after the original.