How would Iowa's facilities rank in SEC?

[Joshbrown]

I don' think it necessarily has anything to do with facilities. I think it comes down to the fact that the south is a football hotbed and a lot of the elite talent doesn't want to leave the south to come to the Midwest.

Yeah, but Nebraska is top 10 in all time winning %. And that state is so depressing that Bruce Springsteen made an album for suicide patients and called it Nebraska.

A good coach wins awards, great coaches win championships.

 

[kicker22]

Yeah, but Nebraska is top 10 in all time winning %. And that state is so depressing that Bruce Springsteen made an album for suicide patients and called it Nebraska.

A good coach wins awards, great coaches win championships.

Agreed, and I'm kicking myself for saying this, but their National Championships and history speaks for itself. Even though I'm not convinced they are still relevant, I still think they're a national product based on previous accomplishments. We don't have that luxury.

 

[Joshbrown]

Agreed, and I'm kicking myself for saying this, but their National Championships and history speaks for itself. Even though I'm not convinced they are still relevant, I still think they're a national product based on previous accomplishments. We don't have that luxury.

Agree with your agreement.

Whenever someone says to me, "But I don't have the advantages the other guys have" I always reply with, "Lemme tell ya a lil story about a nation called Japan"

They don't have China's population. They don't have the imperial might of the former UK or USSR. They aren't innovators like the USA. They don't have the natural resources of a country like Canada.

But in a relatively short time Japan became an economic super-power. How did they do it? WILL

That single ingredient is usually the difference between winners and also-rans. Under HF Iowa finished the season ranked about 50% of the time. Under KF about 33% of the time. Yet every argument ends the same way, "We're lil ole Iowa and because of that I'm happy to accept that this is . . .

 

[VTHawk]

Agree with your agreement.

Whenever someone says to me, "But I don't have the advantages the other guys have" I always reply with, "Lemme tell ya a lil story about a nation called Japan"

They don't have China's population. They don't have the imperial might of the former UK or USSR. They aren't innovators like the USA. They don't have the natural resources of a country like Canada.

But in a relatively short time Japan became an economic super-power. How did they do it? WILL

That single ingredient is usually the difference between winners and also-rans. Under HF Iowa finished the season ranked about 50% of the time. Under KF about 33% of the time. Yet every argument ends the same way, "We're lil ole Iowa and because of that I'm happy to accept that this is . . .

One of the best posts I have seen.

 

[HawkGold]

Except....
1. Japan got destroyed in WW2

2. Japan's economy has been in a depression for many years/decades.

If you invested 100K in the Nikei in 1994 or so you would have about 25k in the Nikei today in non inflation adjusted currency.

Japan has been really sick for a very long time. It is slowly dying as a nation.

Better to use a different example.

And they've they've destroyed their retirements and savings in trying to make is seem as good as it is...which is miserable. And the US is trying to do the same thing by:

1. Immigration
2. Monetizing debt.