I Dare someone to find any coach in history

[koralakers]

with as many losses as KF, when favored by double-digits. I bet it's not even close. All coming from a guy who has earned as much money coaching as anyone in history. Unreal. When preparing for us, I bet opposing coaches just laugh at the simplicity it is to prepare for, and beat our offense and defense. It's why, time-after-time, INFERIOR opponents continue to own us, many times on our own turf.

 

[dualradius]

with as many losses as KF, when favored by double-digits. I bet it's not even close. All coming from a guy who has earned as much money coaching as anyone in history. Unreal. When preparing for us, I bet opposing coaches just laugh at the simplicity it is to prepare for, and beat our offense and defense. It's why, time-after-time, INFERIOR opponents continue to own us, many times on our own turf.

And I think for a while coaches were surprised that they were able to plan for KF's teams so easily. I'm sure their thought was, "there's gotta be more to this team... this can't be everything they're going to bring." And guess what, it was. (I'm referring to scheme)

But now they're not surprised. They actually expect to beat Iowa.

 

[hawkfan2679]

http://thegazette.com/subject/sports/iowa-football-struggles-as-big-favorites-20140914

The main excerpt:

From 2006 through Saturday’s loss to Iowa State, Iowa is 28-11 straight up as a double-digit favorite. Those losses include Northwestern three times, Iowa State twice, Minnesota twice, Indiana twice, Central Michigan and Western Michigan. Iowa has covered in just 13 of those 39 games. This season, Iowa is 0-3 against the spread (2-1 overall).

As for the rest of the Big Ten, nobody is even close to Iowa with those numbers, either against the spread or straight up. Here’s how Big Ten teams have performed as double-digit favorites starting with the 2006 season:

Ohio State — 38-27-1 (against the spread); 63-3 straight up
Wisconsin — 28-20-1 (ATS); 48-1 straight up
Nebraska — 24-26-1 (ATS); 45-6 straight up
Penn State — 22-16 (ATS); 38-0 straight up
Michigan — 20-17 (ATS); 36-1 straight up
Michigan State — 14-18-1 (ATS); 30-3 straight up
Rutgers — 14-16 (ATS); 27-3 straight up
Iowa — 13-26 (ATS); 28-11 straight up
Illinois — 12-12 (ATS); 21-3 straight up
Purdue — 9-13-2 (ATS); 22-2 straight up
Northwestern — 8-13 (ATS); 18-3 straight up
Indiana — 8-7 (ATS); 14-1 straight up
Maryland — 7-8 (ATS); 13-2 straight up
Minnesota 6-7 (ATS); 10-3 straight up

I think everyone could probably have guessed the ATS numbers sucked. But the 11 losses when favored by double digits? The entire rest of the B1G (including newest members Rutgers and Maryland) have 31 losses spread amongst 13 teams (i.e. an average of slightly less than 2.5).

 

[eveningnewsteam]

Easiest preparation all year for opponents. It's a week they get to just work on them.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

 

[koralakers]

http://thegazette.com/subject/sports/iowa-football-struggles-as-big-favorites-20140914

The main excerpt:


I think everyone could probably have guessed the ATS numbers sucked. But the 11 losses when favored by double digits? The entire rest of the B1G (including newest members Rutgers and Maryland) have 31 losses spread amongst 13 teams (i.e. an average of slightly less than 2.5).

Those numbers are crazy. Wonder if ANY coach has anywhere near 11 losses when double-digit favs, ever. Most would get fired if repeatedly losing those. Nebraska is next highest BIG school with 6 (not sure if all were Pelini), the next highest team is 3.