Howe: These Hawkeyes Not Ready for Primetime
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EstronHawkKing
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Rob, do you think Brian Ferentz will be the next head coach at Iowa? What's your gut feeling ?
Is this for real?
RobHowe
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smitharooney
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I count two wins . 2017 Ohio St and 2018 Minnesota
IMHO Pat Harty sums things up very well............
https://allhawkeyes.com/pages/story/details/3292
https://allhawkeyes.com/pages/story/details/3292
earlkoppelman
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Set in Stone.Cement poured at last contract. "7" win bonus.YEP. My opinion only.
earlkoppelman
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Starts at Top?
Denverhawk1
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This seems to be an offensive line that severely misses Reese Morgan.
Perhaps someone who’s played and coached offensive lines would be a place to start. But what do I know?
Perhaps someone who’s played and coached offensive lines would be a place to start. But what do I know?
earlkoppelman
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I also said that. But didn't we all KNOW obvious? No Phil?? Firesale on Tickets??? Hawk Players Always Tough.
Oh boy.
I think they are going to have a real tough sell on that.
Anyone else notice as of today there are a lot more game tickets for sale? "We barely lost to ranked teams" isn't covering it.
They have gone through a couple recruiting cycles. These are their guys.
There isn't an excuse for why we are not competing in Indy. Not one except the coaches.
eveningnewsteam
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Oh boy
homes
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They want to be a running team, but they're not. Jon and Deace's podcast support that with the data. It's confounding. And frustrating.
hawkfan2679
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Right now it's a REALLY tough sell because the guy (BF) would seem like he's failing up. But if KF coaches 5-6 more years (to finish out his contract) and we don't have an appreciable uptick in offensive performance, how would that be sold? We've set a bit of a precedent with relative success having continuity in our coaching ranks, but I would expect that announcement would be met with lukewarm enthusiasm at best...
They would sell it like this: "Brian's offense was the highest (2018) and 3rd highest (2017) scoring offense at Iowa since KOK left.
That of course is helped by how bad Iowa's offense performed under Davis and the fact that Iowa has such an easy schedule those numbers can get skewed by a couple high scoring games. Iowa's offense last year struggled against every team with a pulse on D.
Plus they'd be selling this to KF bootlickers. If he didn't get fired after the disaster era of 2010-2014, he's in complete control and he'll probably be the next AD anyway.
RobHowe
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The average is boosted by Goodson's 29-yard run. The first six carries went for 1 or 2 yards.
The problem is this, KF can't even bring himself to publicly say anyting critical of the offense. When even remotely cornered his response was "well if we shut them out, 3 points would have been enough".
Like I said technically I agree and shutouts should be the goal every week. But come on man, any other coach at any other school that doesn't have his son working for him would have said the defense did it's job but the offense did not.
I know coaches don't throw anyone under the bus, but any coach anywhere would have said that things are not going well on offense.
So he isn't ever going to talk demotion of letting go. He hitched his wagon. Which leaves it up to Bart's. How many questions do you think he will ask? As I showed in another post, avg offenses, not top of the conference, have put up over 30 on every one of our remaining games except Wisconsin. Wisconsin may as well be in a different division than us.
I mean come on, if our defense was giving up 40 to Michigan, 40 to PSU, which is the equivalent of our scoring. Everyone would be freaking out. We score 30 but give up 40 to every P5 opponent and see how fast the shit hits the fan. Why because we hardly rarely ever give up that many. We are defense spoiled when 3 points is defended.
If that isn't biased, I don't know what is.
Expect near perfect out of defense and special teams. Yeah you are right a couple more plays in just about every loss in a very long time and we are constantly playing in Indy. My question is why is it always ALWAYS a stop here or there, better punting/field position, a tackle here or there? Come on, at the end of the day, you lose because you didn't score as many points as they did. How many times has our defense crapped the bed in all these years?
Just imagine where we would have been and where we would be if our offense was even 80% of what our defense is.
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SCHawkeye2
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Who on this board is OK with this record?
