Here's today's/seasons evidence to fire Greg Davis

uihawk82

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1. The hawks do not have cutback runners and if we run outside zone sweeps against a faster overpursuing Nebby defense we dont avg 2 ypc yet we kept doing it and doing it over and over and over for crap yardage ad nauseum. I am not getting on the players but Davis is just pounding his head on a brick wall and wasting plays.

How can a head coach stand for that.

2. Inside zone type straight ahead runs were doing the most damage today so it should have been apparent to keep pounding Nebby for 4 ypc and and like Wisky did just demoralize them.

3. The hawks do also have a pulling guard run blocking scheme between the tackles which I do not remember seeing today. If was pretty obvious after the first 5 times we tried sweeps to give up on that play.

so we had about 15-20 wasted outside sweep plays when the shortest distance between the LOS and the endzone seemed to be working better.

4. GD can't seem to call any quick slants which is a preferred pass pattern in the NFL and many college teams with high powered passing games. Why is this, GD calls about 5 slants each year.

When your receivers are having trouble getting open a quick slant should work and some stop patterns and comeback patterns should work. I dont remember seeing anything like this.

5. GD calls a lot of slowly evolving passing patterns that gets his QB in trouble.

6. GD cant put together a whole game of offense in any game this year.

7. The offense scored 17 pts against crappy ISU and only 17 today in regulation against a team that got manhandled by Wisky and pushed around by Minny.

I dont like to call for a firing/resignation but this is old and boring and aint working.

Anyone else see other evidence?
 
Well using Mark Weisman on any or all of these runs is the first problem. Recruit better players first and foremost. It's bad enough that we start a white man at tail back it's quite another that he is slow also.
 
I don’t want GD to be the sacrificial lamb. It’s a copout for Barta, and he probably thinks it’ll buy him another year or 2 of KF.
 
just not seeing progress. That's enough.

That is enough. GD has faster wideouts now I guess, maybe only one in Smith, but he seems to be able to only scheme a couple plays a game to get Smith or Powell open.

Today's td to Smith was a good example of Nebby blitzing and we had Smith as the only wideout on that side. Perfect set up for him to break that tackle and house it.

And why arent some of the redshirt freshman receivers getting a few reps a game. Is that KF or GD.

I hope GD hangs it up even if we have to start over on offense.

I would rather see 15-20 short passes 5 yards downfield to TEs today than the 15-20 wide sweeps we ran
 
I don’t want GD to be the sacrificial lamb. It’s a copout for Barta, and he probably thinks it’ll buy him another year or 2 of KF.
Let me ask you this, after the first 5 or 6 sweep plays got totally smothered would you call another 12-15 of them throughout the game?
 
50 rushes = TRAVESTY.. GD hasnt got a ******* clue, end of story!!!!

With these running backs it takes a lot of plays, normally, to score. Iowa had more plays today than any game this year. I think they had 88 plays. NEbraksa had in the mid 50's. Iowa lacks explosiveness .....or lacked it in most games this year.
 
The Iowa offense was the football version of Fight Club.

Fighting with themselves all season long. Bi-polar. Looking cool and trashy all in the same scene. Blowing themselves up.

What else?
 
Come on now....Greg Davis should be the LEAST of our worries. Fire him, and all you would be doing is shuffling chairs around on the Titanic while buying KF more time to make millions.
 
Marshall

Kansas State

Colorado State

Minnesota

Boise State

All in the Top 25.




Duke is even a better football program than Iowa.

Yes, Duke.



That should be enough evidence.
 
I don’t want GD to be the sacrificial lamb. It’s a copout for Barta, and he probably thinks it’ll buy him another year or 2 of KF.

If Davis is used as the scapegoat for Ferentz, I'm gonna puke. If Iowa fans are stupid enough to give Ferentz a pass by putting the blame for his failure on Davis..I don't even know what. That would be bad.
 
This is the Kirk Ferentz Sh*t Show. To blame anyone other than the guy making all the money serves no purpose.
 
Hawkz - That is exactly what will probably happen....win/win for KF. Hey, "I'm really trying to win here"....and again, buys him more time.
 

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