Joe Labas

McNamara isn’t much better, and when you take his injury history into account it probably makes him about equal to Hill.

The odds of Cade suffering another injury on the field in play are astronomical

The odds of Cade suffering another injury on the practice field are also rather almost astronomical
 
Nope. injuries are more random than “prone.”
Completely false.

Ligament injuries are orders of magnitude more likely to reoccur after previous injuries. That's not random. Repairs are never as strong as the natural, uninjured tissue was.

Read this...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4205204/

Re-tears are 15 times more likely than in the previously uninjured population, and 20-25% of ACL repairs get retorn in athletes. That's astronomical, and very not random.

The study quoted deals with ACLs but it obviously applies to other ligaments as well, and you can find studies that support re-injury rates being higher. McNamara now has both knees compromised, his odds of being competitive next year are probably in the single digits.
 
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Former Hawkeye Joe Labas....

Looks like he's off and running.
 
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Didn't expect him to stay around.

Kirk kept him behind a guy with no functional knees and the Pillsbury Throwboy 2.0, what was he supposed to do?
 
He's the one I expect to do good things elsewhere.

If QBs can't get on the field here, they generally do not have success elsewhere. About the only exception is Nic Shimonek, but he didn't see the field because he was behind Ruddock and Beathard.
 
If QBs can't get on the field here, they generally do not have success elsewhere. About the only exception is Nic Shimonek, but he didn't see the field because he was behind Ruddock and Beathard.
None of those other guys won a bowl game.
 
None of those other guys won a bowl game.

Are you saying Ruddock and Beathard are not that good because they didn't win a bowl game? Because Beathard completed 9 of 10 in the NFL last night, and Ruddock is the only other QB during the KF era to actually throw an NFL pass.

Judging a QB solely by team success would lead us to the conclusion that Brad Johnson and Trent Dilfer are better than Dan Marion and Jim Kelly.
 
Congratulations to Joey Labas! (Almost certainly) the only QB in Iowa history to have a 100% winning record as a starter for the Hawks. He had zero interceptions and no fumbles in his career and he did throw a TD pass. He can leave with his head held high.
 
Are you saying Ruddock and Beathard are not that good because they didn't win a bowl game? Because Beathard completed 9 of 10 in the NFL last night, and Ruddock is the only other QB during the KF era to actually throw an NFL pass.

Judging a QB solely by team success would lead us to the conclusion that Brad Johnson and Trent Dilfer are better than Dan Marion and Jim Kelly.
No I referring to the other portal QBs who you said had 0 success elsewhere. They also had 0 success at IA.
 
KF said continually through Hill's struggles that he gave Iowa the best chance to win. He said Deacon was clearly ahead of Labas and Lainez.

What does that tell you?
 
How do they know when they've never given anyone else a shot?

And only using practices as a meter is just being stubborn as his best QBs weren't the best practice QBs in his eyes
One of our Heisman runner ups wasn’t even a starter until our original starter got knocked out.

However I am not sure where that Heisman runner up was against USC. Harmonitis at the QB position that game. The game started out right however as Iowa ran the opening kickoff back for a touchdown.
 
Completely false.

Ligament injuries are orders of magnitude more likely to reoccur after previous injuries. That's not random. Repairs are never as strong as the natural, uninjured tissue was.

Read this...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4205204/

Re-tears are 15 times more likely than in the previously uninjured population, and 20-25% of ACL repairs get retorn in athletes. That's astronomical, and very not random.

The study quoted deals with ACLs but it obviously applies to other ligaments as well, and you can find studies that support re-injury rates being higher. McNamara now has both knees compromised, his odds of being competitive next year are probably in the single digits.
Interesting and sad. Did not know.
 
KF said continually through Hill's struggles that he gave Iowa the best chance to win. He said Deacon was clearly ahead of Labas and Lainez.

What does that tell you?
Maybe that Labas will not light it up somewhere else?
 
Interesting and sad. Did not know.

From this paper, opening sentence of their section on predicting recurrent injuries:

"One clear precept of injury prediction is that the single best predictor of second injury is a prior injury."

Ignore the obvious fact that you cannot suffer a second injury unless you have a first, what this is saying is if you take a group of people who have had a prior ACL tear, and then another group that hasn't, and you try to predict who will have a future injury, there is no characteristic of those individuals that will have more predictive power than whether or not they had that first injury. @Fryowa may have undersold the recurrence rate slightly, some estimates trend towards 1 in 3.
 
I would love for Lainez to get meaningful snaps in this bowl game. If CM gets hurt next year, you can't run this back with Deac...you just can't. If Deac is in a Iowa uniform next year I just want to see him wearing a red cap and a headset.
 

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