Bullshit! That's exactly why they are successful. Barry Alvarez demands more of himself. That's why he makes damn sure that he hires the right coaches! Do you think he has magic pixy dust or something? Opens up the Coaches Almanac, sprinkles his magic dust and points to a candidate? Unbelievable. Sorry but you have no clue.
Newsflash. Neither Beilama (Arkansas) or Anderson (Oregon State) succeeded after they left UW. But the train kept rolling. Chryst was a .500 guy at Pitt. Maybe it’s more the program than the coach.
I worked in the cable TV business for eleven years as a video producer, public Access coordinator, and remote broadcast producer/director (some of our fellow posters finest high school moments may be in the athletic file of our vaults). They told us early in our careers that if the biz wanted to operate within the box and not strive for change and not have the competitive urge to do better we would still have three broadcast channels and PBS.
Ever see our record in the NACDA Director's Cup Big Ten rankings? Don't eat before viewing!
And we only play Michigan once...at home...which gives us a chance. So 2 of our 5 toughest conference games happened to be our first 2 IMO. I'm not worried.
Yess! Well said.. But Hard aggressive tonite. Makes "warm beer taste cold" SORTA Go Tough Hawks...
Wrong. Wisconsin at home was not one of our top 5 toughest B1G games. It would likely rank somewhere in the 8-10 range and I’d say closer to the 10 range given how we’ve seen Iowa play on the road recently.
Wow. Kenpom has Iowa 10th in the B1G behind Penn State and slightly ahead of NW and Minny.
I was listening to Steven Bardo talk about playing on the road in the BIG. He said that for any team to go on the road and win, they have to be 10 pts better. He said that's how it's always been. 10 pts better on a neutral court will = a BIG conference road win. Who are we 10 pts better than in the BIG? Certainly not any of the teams you have listed in that post.
I was brought up to keep working at something until you didn't fail. I also learned how to get back up after being knocked down, which is the definition of adversity. It would do me no good to continue this conversation any further because I can't even pretend to get into the headspace of your arguement. I would might as well be talking in Swahili.
I sought out the best players and the best games that I could find. I took a lot of lumps along the way, in order to improve. That's what I did to get to the point where I won championships. All of those lumps/losses didn't make me a loser. It made me a champion.
Off topic. Did you play with or against Ryan Driscoll in high school. Sad story. I just got back from an eighth grade game in Lancaster and haven't opened up the football threads yet.
He was a couple of years younger than me. I did play against Kurt Warner in a few sports. I played quite a few pick up basketball games with him. People don't know it but he was a pretty good basketball player. All around good athlete.
