Jon at 6:58

JonDMiller said:
Here is what is going to happen. Iowa either wins Big next year and the following year, meaning 20 or more wins combined in the two years, and then Brian will be the next head coach. Or they fall short of that, and he won't. So regardless of your opinion on that next coach, I think we'll all find out one way or another within the next 24 months. That should make everybody happy
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Imagine if any other state employee would have their child succeed them in their position.
 
earlkoppelman said:
Execution.Execution.Execution no? YIKES!
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i agree it's execution. yesterday, the failure of execution was in the design of the game plans, not the carrying out of individual plays. we were ill prepared to combat their defensive pressure and didn't have enough men in the box to defend against the run and force a very average, at best, qb to beat us.
 
ArvadaHawk said:
i agree it's execution. yesterday, the failure of execution was in the design of the game plans, not the carrying out of individual plays. we were ill prepared to combat their defensive pressure and didn't have enough men in the box to defend against the run and force a very average, at best, qb to beat us.
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the design of the game plan called for five drops and free blitzers?
 
JonDMiller said:
the design of the game plan called for five drops and free blitzers?
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Can you explain how the staff prepared the offense to account for the free blitzers? how did the staff prepare them to be ready for delayed blitzes? I mean, how does a staff never make mistakes and it is always the players fault? What was the game plan as far as how many men we had in the box to stop the run and force an average at best qb beat us? near as i could tell, we played our base defense and that allowed WUs to out flank us by pulling linemen. jon, i have been very fair when identifying a lack of execution by both staff and players. to always point the finger at players is simply short-sighted. now, i don't have any great insight into the staff...i don't have access to people that talk to all of the coaches throughout the week; you do. So, please enlighten us all on how this staff prepared this team to be ready for all of what WUs threw at us and that it was simply 5 dropped passes and some free blitzers that caused us to gain 66 total yards on offense and almost 250 yards rushing. We got shut out, Jon. if not for JJ, we would have lost 38-0 with 66 total yards and 5 first downs.
 
Saturday's aftermath reminded me of my days working for a chain store.

I was in operations (i.e. trenches). We ran sales, schemed by those in corporate.

At times, those sales failed. Plenty of finger pointing to go around.

Operations would blame the Ivory Tower for giving us klunky merchandise, poor sales flyers, etc.

Ivory Tower would blame operations for not fully carrying out their grand plan.

The truth was always found somewhere between those polar opposites.
 
Seth53 said:
Saturday's aftermath reminded me of my days working for a chain store.

I was in operations (i.e. trenches). We ran sales, schemed by those in corporate.

At times, those sales failed. Plenty of finger pointing to go around.

Operations would blame the Ivory Tower for giving us klunky merchandise, poor sales flyers, etc.

Ivory Tower would blame operations for not fully carrying out their grand plan.

The truth was always found somewhere between those polar opposites.
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i used to work in retail also. I'd say this. its up to the Ivory Tower folks to provide the right merchandise; items our customers wanted to buy. then it is the operations folks responsibility to display and market that merchandise correctly and properly so that products practically jumped into a customers hand of shopping cart.

Our Ivory Tower is giving us laxatives for people with diaherra.
 
OkstHawk said:
And it's nice to see the apologists out here to try and tell everyone how things are okay with Iowa football. 66 yards say otherwise brah
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Where did I say that? I'm just happy that the hater brigade feels like they can now post again. Last week must have been tough on you.....errrrr the hater brigade.
 
Joshbrown said:
The problem causing the split in the fanbase is that half the base is invested in the program first. And half the base is more invested in the coach than the program.
Ultimately the school/program need to matter more than employees of said same.
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Oh, yeah. But doubt that will ever happen.
 
OkstHawk said:
And it's nice to see the apologists out here to try and tell everyone how things are okay with Iowa football. 66 yards say otherwise brah
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Dean is sayin', if I can put words in his mouth, that the Iowa defense is stellar (which it isn't) and Iowa's offense sucks. He's his own form of hater.

Oh, to be as strong as Wisky's defense.....

Herein lies the problem with the current Iowa football program: (most) fans, coaches and administrators are incompetent.
'Look at what the offense did against tOSU...look at the average number of points the defense gives up.'
 
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JonDMiller said:
Here is what is going to happen. Iowa either wins Big next year and the following year, meaning 20 or more wins combined in the two years, and then Brian will be the next head coach. Or they fall short of that, and he won't. So regardless of your opinion on that next coach, I think we'll all find out one way or another within the next 24 months. That should make everybody happy
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I think if Barta is around in two years, Brian is automatically the head coach. It will be interesting to see what happens.

With the schedule next year, beat ISU and Iowa will be favored except vs. Penn St. and Wisconsin. I see 4 probable bowl teams so not the worst schedule ever. So 10 - 2 with 0 top 25 wins is possible. Is that success?

2019 will have two or three top 25 teams, so a 10 win session then would be great.
JonDMiller said:
the design of the game plan called for five drops and free blitzers?
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Jon, I agree with you that it is execution. I have a few questions that somebody that covers the team for a living can answer better than I can:

Why do we require absolutely perfect execution with 0 margin for error? Other team's can drop more than 5 passes and win. Northwestern comes to mind. Heck, Wisconsin turned it over 4 times and won.

Can you explain why Iowa has 0 margin for error, and Wisconsin has 14 points and 4 turnovers worth of margin of error, when they play a mirror image style to Iowa?

I know they are better than Iowa - but they seem to execute more consistently. Why is that?

They score more points with the same style of offense and recruit better backs. Why can't Iowa score more and recruit those backs?

I'm not being adversarial. I can't figure it out.
 
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JonDMiller said:
Here is what is going to happen. Iowa either wins Big next year and the following year, meaning 20 or more wins combined in the two years, and then Brian will be the next head coach. Or they fall short of that, and he won't. So regardless of your opinion on that next coach, I think we'll all find out one way or another within the next 24 months. That should make everybody happy
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I'll give you 2/1 on the money that 1) that won't happen. We won't win the BIG 1 time in the next 2 years, much less 2 times. And B) Brian Ferentz still gets the HC job ( as long as Barta is here). Bet any amount you want.
You'll be wrong on both accounts.
 
HomerChampless said:
Dean is sayin', if I can put words in his mouth, that the Iowa defense is stellar (which it isn't) and Iowa's offense sucks. He's his own form of hater.

Oh, to be as strong as Wisky's defense.....

Herein lies the problem with the current Iowa football program: (most) fans, coaches and administrators are incompetent.
'Look at what the offense did against tOSU...look at the average number of points the defense gives up.'
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No you can't put words in my mouth, I could never say anything close to as stupid as what you say on a daily basis. Even after we gain 66 total yards, you are trying to point to the OSU game and say our offense is good? Holy *ucking Shit, you are really, really dumb.
 
deanvogs said:
No you can't put words in my mouth, I could never say anything close to as stupid as what you say on a daily basis. Even after we gain 66 total yards, you are trying to point to the OSU game and say our offense is good? Holy *ucking Shit, you are really, really dumb.
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I noticed your qualifier of 'on a daily basis (which I didn't add)' to Iowa's offense sucking. Come on. Admit, at least, a few times in the month. Don't like the defense, either? Hum?
 
revkev73 said:
Strategic errors...

Stanley, having burned a year last year, needed to be the focus of the development given the year was Kirk vanilla, pedestrian. One can easily see that need even though he has done pretty well.

Given this year is now a four loss clunker or more, Iowa needs to focus on development and playing time for the replacement linebackers and running backs of the future.

Hiring a "train in place" OC, a high profile position that has been erratic and inefficient.

Delaying finding a new HC...who is set on winning the West, the Big Ten and a National Championship, rather than dumbing down the fan base with low expectations and excuses.

These moves are critical to becoming top shelf and involve leadership moves and leadership changes.[/QUOT

tell me you didn't see at least 3 if not 5 losses when camp opened in August.

Come on, be truthful. I rationally saw losses or highly probable losses to psu, osu, wisky, nebby, and close tough games at isu (because it is Kirk and isu), msu and jNW because of Carr.

I saw 7-5 as a good season with new QB. if u were expecting 9 or more wins then the problem is yours.

as is this team could have been on track for 10 wins if everything went perfect.
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deanvogs said:
If you think that #24 ranked scoring defense is bad, and the #80th ranked scoring offense is good, knock yourself out. I'm not gonna waste any more time on you.
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I'm curious what our scoring defense rank would be if our offense was ranked even in the upper 60's....or had the exact same offense, but a solid punting and punt return game.

With just an average performing offense, Iowa would be at minimum 8-2, and very possibly 10-0. Which means we have a pretty damn good defense.
 
deanvogs said:
Where did I say that? I'm just happy that the hater brigade feels like they can now post again. Last week must have been tough on you.....errrrr the hater brigade.
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Glad you are over satisfied as long as Iowa plays great in one game per season. Real fan, yeah! Loved every minute of last week. But how do you follow up one of the great Iowa performances with one of the worst in 50 years? Fact of the matter is BF had one great game, one good game, and eight really shitty performances. This isn't supposed to be an on the job learning experience. Dude sucks and you love it!
 
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