If Iowa Did Not Succeed on the Two Point Conversion

[jameskalina]

If the Hawks did not succeed on the 2 point conversion then we may not be talking about taking some shots down field near the end of regulation.

The Hawks would have been down two or three and that would have forced Iowa to get into field goal range to either try to win the game or send it into overtime.

 

[Ihawk209]

Are you confident that we'd have been able to move the ball?

I seem to remember some pretty shaky clock management late in games last year..

 

[jameskalina]

Are you confident that we'd have been able to move the ball?

I seem to remember some pretty shaky clock management late in games last year..

I don't know if Iowa would have been able to move the ball. We would have found out.

If ISU stopped Iowa then they would have deserved to win the game, as they did anyway.

 

[HandsyHobo]

So if you could do it over and you were Kirk Ferentz, you'd tell them to intentionally blow the 2 point conversion in the hope that it would motivate them to suddenly start playing better on the next offensive possession? What is the point of this thread?

 

[HawkeyeMcNutt]

Are you confident that we'd have been able to move the ball?

I seem to remember some pretty shaky clock management late in games last year..

Kirk has stated that the problem has been fixed..we'll see.

 

[jameskalina]

So if you could do it over and you were Kirk Ferentz, you'd tell them to intentionally blow the 2 point conversion in the hope that it would motivate them to suddenly start playing better on the next offensive possession? What is the point of this thread?

I'm saying if the two point conversion failed we would not be talking about the what if's of going for it as opposed to sitting on the ball. It would have forced Ferentz hand.

 

[kicker22]

If the Hawks did not succeed on the 2 point conversion then we may not be talking about taking some shots down field near the end of regulation.

The Hawks would have been down two or three and that would have forced Iowa to get into field goal range to either try to win the game or send it into overtime.

Damn us making the conversion. You forgot to mention that if we stop them on 4th down or 3rd and long and keep them out of the endzone we don't have to worry about it either. I see what your doing, but there's no sense in applying "if's" to any scenario because it creates too many variables and there's no way to ever know how it would play out.

 

[kicker22]

So if you could do it over and you were Kirk Ferentz, you'd tell them to intentionally blow the 2 point conversion in the hope that it would motivate them to suddenly start playing better on the next offensive possession? What is the point of this thread?

Not sure what the point is, but loved your response. No way to light a fire then to intentionally take points off the board.

 

[hawkeyescott]

If the Hawks did not succeed on the 2 point conversion then we may not be talking about taking some shots down field near the end of regulation.

The Hawks would have been down two or three and that would have forced Iowa to get into field goal range to either try to win the game or send it into overtime.

No $hit, I'm glad this is cleared up because I would have figured KF still would have tried to run the ball with 1:17 left and down 2, you know like he did at Michigan St in 09.