It feels like the end....

SpiderRico

SpiderRico

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You can often feel the end of an era by observing the fanbase. While there was some anger over this loss, there seemed to be more general apathy than anything else and that typically signals the beginning of the end.

I fully expect next season and any other subsequent season that KF is our head coach to include about 10,000 less season ticket holders. Extrapolating that over a 7 game home schedule, including lost concessions, comes to about $5.5M per season. Thats called apathy.

If you expect to lose $5.5M/season and your head coach costs $4M/season.....then the math gets pretty simple....
 
Maybe that will get some attention. The only thing that the UI listens to is $$$$. I for one will NOT go and spend my money at a game.
 
I think you guys are going overboard. The B!G is exceptionally tough this year. Of course we are struggling.
 
First game since 2001 that I didn't watch every minute that was on tv. Turned it off at 14-3, checked score a couple times and just gave up.
 
I'm not sure if this feels like its the end of an era. It definitely feels like uncharted terriotory. As Jon mentioned in his excellent article, these are the worst back to back losses since 1999 or 2000.

Since late 2000, you could always count on Kirk having a team that will be competitive in most games, tough teams that could execute fundamentals such as blocking, tackling, catching passes, making simple throws and catches, as well as making solid decisons, and not killing themselves with errors, and having solid special teams.

Iowa has none of that any more. Kirk has morphed into Todd Lickliter. Thus that is what I will refer to him as from now on.

I stole my sig from Jon's article. Its impossible to sum the Iowa program up any better right now.
 
Agree that it does feel like the end of an era. Real similar to the last couple years of the Fry era.
 
Hawkfromnorwalk said:
Not true. When people get apathetic the truly stop caring and talking about it. Talking about becoming apathetic isn't being apathetic.
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I put "almost a little" so that no one could make the kind of comment you did. What the hell do you think you are doing?!?!?!?!?
 
Hawkfromnorwalk said:
Not true. When people get apathetic the truly stop caring and talking about it. Talking about becoming apathetic isn't being apathetic.
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I agree, I think a lot of people here don't know what that word means.

I am apathetic towards quilting. Maybe I should go to a quilting message board and tell them I don't care. :D
 
Watching the hawks is like tuning in to SNL, you check in out of morbid curiousity to see how bad the show can de-escalate
 
It feels like the end of The Godfather III, when Al Pacino does a silent scream for about 3 minutes.
 
I don't buy the lickliter comparison. While the game may have passed Kirk by, he has done alot for this football program and the university. Lickliter's contributions were minimal if any.
 
kicker22 said:
I don't buy the lickliter comparison. While the game may have passed Kirk by, he has done alot for this football program and the university. Lickliter's contributions were minimal if any.
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Under Lick Iowa BB suffered from lack of top end talent, poor execution, several players leaving, roster filled with players not qualified for the level of play, on floor product was hard to watch, a nonexistent home court advantage, losses to pathetic teams, and he always had a confused look on his face.

I see a lot of the same things with the Iowa program right now. I'm holding out hope that the 2011 & 2012 recruiting classes will start to show their ability but the JR & SR classes right now are the equivalent to a Lickliter BB roster. Its hard to find one that would be an impact player on an above average team outside of Hyde.
 
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