Keenan Davis Quote-Can I get an Amen?!?

[OnLookin08]

I am too lazy to read everyone's response, but my two cents:

It would stand to reason that a team with talent like Iowa could find success when they play over a quarter of football in a style that their opponent had probably not prepared for in this weeks game plan.

I think people are taking his quote and running with it as if he was some how saying that they were handcuffed before, when he was probably just saying the coaches brought them together and said something to the effect of "listen, we are going to have to open things up, throw the ball around and get it in the hands of our guys to make some plays."

For those that are advocating this style as a whole you should ask Pitt how well it worked in protecting a lead. Honestly, had Pitt taken a play out of the Ferentz/Okeefe playbook and gone away from their system Iowa would be 1-2 right now because Pitt would have sat on it and gave the ball to the leading rusher in the nation as the play clock hit 2 seconds every snap.

It worked for this game and I think we can all sleep better knowing we are capable and well coached for situations when it's needed. I personally am not sold on wholesale changes due to one quarter worth of success.

 

[OUTofTOWNHAWK]

And yet by some mysterious alchemy we've won 6 bowl games in that span, all over BCS-conference teams.

This is a distraction from the argument, though. I still want to know how we were able to score so easily with our "limiting" pro-set offense at the end of the third quarter.

Maybe this goes to show that if we werent so conservative in which causes a couple of losses every year...we should be playing in harder bowl games.

 

[smoot27]

Maybe this goes to show that if we werent so conservative in which causes a couple of losses every year...we should be playing in harder bowl games.

Where I think he is error is not accounting for the negatives that come with style of play. Our conservative style keeps us in games with good teams, but it also keeps us in games with mediocre to poor teams as well such as the last 3 losses to Northwestern, the losses and near losses to horrible Indiana teams and the poor game against the worst team in the Big Ten last year. The fact that we are able to beat good teams in bowl games show how unacceptable it should be to lose to terrible teams on an annual basis, especially blowing 4th qtr leads frequently. No reason we shouldn't have been a 10 win team for 3 straight seasons with those loaded rosters.

 

[Bigtenchamp]

translation - I finally got the ball thrown my way more than 5 times.