NorthwestHawk1
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Who would you rather have for next year? Gronowski or Stanley? Give me Gronowski all day.
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Fryowa
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This times a million. Which is why he's honorable mention for me. It's not all stats.
I'd go the other direction, but I think either answer is reasonable.
NorthKCHawk
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I think Iowa got the best football out of Stanley it could. He hit a ceiling and it was fine. I think if we had another year with Gron he would be even better. He was starting to get more comfortable passing and was generally a better playmaker as the season went along. I think he would be really good next season if he had one more year.
I think if this had been year 2 for Gronowski, they absolutely beat Iowa State.
I think they would have beat Indiana. (Not that Iowa would be a 'better' team than Indiana. Just that at home, in that game on that day, Iowa wins).
I'm on the fence if they would have beat USC. Entirely possible. But USC is better than they get credit for. Better than I give them credit for.
They still lose to Oregon.
So maybe 2 more wins. Which is statistically significant. Not sure playoffs would have been in the picture, but we'd probably be arguing with Texas fans right now or something.
Interesting question... How would MG have done under BF and Stanley under Lester? I'm afraid if MG was the QB for the Fant, Hockensen Smith, ISM era those dudes wouldn't have produced and became the names they did.
I would've really liked to have seen MG come to us last yr so we coulda had 2 yrs with him under Lester and so that the big stage wouldn't have been so overwhelming for him at the start like it was. Is what it is though.
If Mark coulda thrown as well as Stanley or if Stanley coulda ran as well as Mark you'd be cooking with bacon.
If we end up 10-2, we would be in the playoffs, IMO. The committee gave us quite a bit of respect until we ended up with two consecutive losses and we dropped out of their Top 25. Even now, we are ranked #24 and the only team in the Top 25 with four losses.
In your scenario our losses would have been to Oregon and USC. With a quality win vs. Indiana. Borderline but we would be in the mix.
