Iowa Formula Fails Against Michigan
- Thread starter RobHowe
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Rob,
Your last 2 paragraphs said all that needs to be said.
Do you personally believe KF will change his philosophy after 25 years? Not many people do.
It's sadly time for KF to hang up the head coaching duties and let Iowa hire someone more dynamic and youthful and who'll bring in a more modern philosophy. But, KEEP PHIL PARKER.
The bottom line is, in life most everyone's time comes to retire. And this is especially true if they will not or cannot adapt to the times.
The score would say otherwise. Even with the special teams blunder on the punt return, Iowa still loses because the offense of KF sucks and has for sometime.
It worked....FOR Michigan.
They're special teams was strong. Big punt returns and field goals from special teams. Great defense. And just enough anemic offense to capitalize on short fields.
The stats say it all.
Michigan had a total of 213 yards. Less than Iowa's average per game. They had one single drive that netted 3 points.
Michigan "found a way to win". They out-Iowaed Iowa.
HaydenHawk56
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Ya Michigan did look like a better version of Iowa last night. Bama should have their way with them.
BigD
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Well said Rob. All your points were accurate and true and reflected the types of things many forum members have said all year.
Kirk ball will not work in a new one division big ten. He won’t have a weak West division to survive off of anymore. Oh I suppose the stars will align once in a while and we will have a weak schedule here and there but for the most part that’s not going to happen. It is imperative that the program ups their offensive game moving forward.
Kirk ball will not work in a new one division big ten. He won’t have a weak West division to survive off of anymore. Oh I suppose the stars will align once in a while and we will have a weak schedule here and there but for the most part that’s not going to happen. It is imperative that the program ups their offensive game moving forward.
I say well better than a 5% chance after watching last night. Maybe closer to 25%. Maybe as high as 30%. Michigan's offense was statistically worse than Iowa's on the season.
Who knows how that all could have played out. Sure, michigan didn't HAVE to do anything on offense. But in the time they WANTED to do anything with it, they only came away with 3 points.
okeefe4prez
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I think they had a 5% chance of winning until the referees decided to overturn that pass and call it a fumble and recovery by Michigan. That's exactly the situation where Iowa gets some lucky big play, suddenly it's 10-7 and they start to push and make a mistake. Next thing you know it's 14-10 Good Guys.
Look, I didn't expect Iowa to win that game, we certainly weren't the better team, but it was within our margin of error until that play. What is frustrating is that last night was in all likelihood the last actual chance most of us will ever see with Iowa having a shot to win the Big Ten and yeah, we pissed it down our leg a bit with that fumble with good field position, a bad special teams play and that dropped INT, but despite all of those we were still well within this team's margin of error to luck into a victory until the refs decided they had seen enough and gifted Michigan the ball in a spot that all but guaranteed a touchdown.
RobHowe
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I didn't have a problem with them calling it a fumble. I asked Deacon after the game if he felt his arm was going forward. He said he didn't know. But he did say he heard multiple whistles blowing the play dead and that stopped guys from going for the ball. Heck, the Michigan guy nonchalantly picked it up and handed to the official instead of running it in. That was the problem.
And if they gave Iowa the ball back there, it would have been punting if there wasn't a turnover on the next play. The Hawkeyes were down 10-0 at that point. A comeback wasn't happening with this offense.
And if they gave Iowa the ball back there, it would have been punting if there wasn't a turnover on the next play. The Hawkeyes were down 10-0 at that point. A comeback wasn't happening with this offense.
