Iowa has lost 4 games at home this year. Kinnick stadium used to be one of the toughest stadiums in the country for an opposing team to come into and get a win. Winning team or losing team, the Hawkeyes are our team. Talent has nothing to do with home field advantage. It's all about fans. Fans create an atmosphere that motivates and supports the home team. Fans create an atmoshere of hostility that intimidates the visiting team. Fans can make it so loud and hostile that an opponent cannot hear their snap counts, their QB cannot audible, they can't here the whistles or even hear their coaches talk. Mistakes become amplified. Where's the proud Iowa fans? Iowa pride and spirit - this is our house and every team that walked in here knew it. This is on the fans, sitting on their butts, booing the team, etc. What's next....sell all our seats to Nebraska fans so they can call Kinnick "East Lincoln" every year?
Kinnick stadium - home field advantage
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Section136
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They should have never moved teh students.
Also, if Nebraska fans are coming here calling Kinnick "Lincoln East" every year, they will be missing the game in Lincolin every year.
1977Hawkeye
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Yep, it's all the fault of the fans that the team sucks. Gotcha. I love these posts.
Don't ya think the 20+ home games Iowa won in a row back in 2002-04 had something to do with the teams on the field? It's a two way street - the fans feed off of a good team as well, and vice versa.
DBAHawkFan
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I'm tired of the AC/DC music. Maybe it's time we find some new music to help "reboot" the program. Of course maybe it has more to do with hearing the "bells" 15 times every time our opponent has the ball since they convert so many.
eveningnewsteam
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There are a hand full of programs in the entire country that would have packed the stands with a terrible team against another terrible team like Iowa vs Purdue last weekend. Sorry, but this isnt on the fans.
FoolishFellow
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Kinnick was nearly packed on Saturday despite the fact that the majority of those who went knew it would just be... another one of those games.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a fan base that is going to get incredibly loud when nearly every possession ends with a 3rd and 4 attempt with Vandy throwing to a receiver for a 1 yard gain.
I'm sorry but your post is really dumb. Like really dumb. Hawkeye football fans are awesome and definitely not the problem. I also think that not-going to the Nebraska game is completely justified at this point.
We need to ditch the Blackout games. Have we ever won one? It's like a black hole where everyone in the stands fades away.
I agree with the others who said this is not on the fans. Kinnick was packed with fans who were ready and willing to be the 12th man when the team showed any life at all. The trouble is, there was no sustained "life" on that field. Our completely anemic offense was almost unbearable to watch and our D was no better.
I agree with the others who said this is not on the fans. Kinnick was packed with fans who were ready and willing to be the 12th man when the team showed any life at all. The trouble is, there was no sustained "life" on that field. Our completely anemic offense was almost unbearable to watch and our D was no better.
ICHawk24
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This is ******* crazy.
HawkinGoferLand
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I think home field advantage may have kept these games closer than they should have been. Purdue dominated us but needed some last second heroics and a 46 yd prayer to win it.
HawkeyeHypnosis
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You must not have been to any games. The fans were in it all the way. They were loud on 3rd downs and 4th downs. Very few gas actually left any of the games until late or after the final whistle. Fans are NOT the issue, the fans have been fantastic.
EDIT: And after reading your garbage rant again, to say the fans sat on their butts obviously proves that you attended zero games. No one sits, unless red hat is on the field, fans stand the whole way.
EDIT: And after reading your garbage rant again, to say the fans sat on their butts obviously proves that you attended zero games. No one sits, unless red hat is on the field, fans stand the whole way.
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NEIChawk
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There's no such thing as home field advantage anymore in college sports.....Ya, Ya, Kinnick has always been a tough place to play, but when it's "our house", we have the front door open for anyone to just walk on in and kick our a$$....Like I've said in other posts, when the players, coaches and staff do not show any emotion on the field, it's very disappointing to watch as a fan....Especially when you're at home, and you know what's on the line....
racerhawk
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Do you go to teh games? I do. You're completely wrong. For example, at the start of the PSU game, it was very, very loud. In Iowa's "miracle comeback" against CMU it was loud.
The fact of the matter (and a depressing fact it is) is that the crowd doesn't really matter all that much. The players do.
hawkdrummer1
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Iowa Football has a lot of problems.
Fan support is not one of them.
Period.
Fan support is not one of them.
Period.
If we just played Ni**as in Paris on a loop the entire game, we would never lose, the team would be pumped up the fans would be loud and we wouldn't even need to have this discussion. I've been saying this all year. We are undefeated this season when the players have been allowed to "dance" to that song, yet it still isn't being played in Kinnick. That's totally unacceptable.
GrandpaHawk
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Been a season ticket holder for 9 yrs and I can say the fans aren't the problem.Every team knows how to play us so the crowd noise doesn't effect them.We can't get pressure on the QB so he has all day to go thru his reads.When our WR's do get open our QB can't find them.Reminds me of the basketball team under Licklitter(very boring to watch).
BlondeTuco
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The Massey computer rankings analyze home field advantage of all the teams, based on how/who they play on the road and at home i.e. barely beating an average team on the road, followed by a big win against a good opponent suggests a strong home-field advantage. According to this computer, Iowa gets a .98 point advantage when playing at home.... with only four teams (all from the sunbelt) below them. Compare this to 4.31 points last year, and 4.44 in 2010 according to the same computer.
Anyone who has been to the games this year knows that the fans are not the problem. A loud crowd can cause the occasional false start and delay of game / timeout, but it's not going to turn a poor team into a contender. Personally, I don't think other teams view Iowa as much of a threat this season, so they have no reason to be intimidated by playing in Kinnick Stadium.
Anyone who has been to the games this year knows that the fans are not the problem. A loud crowd can cause the occasional false start and delay of game / timeout, but it's not going to turn a poor team into a contender. Personally, I don't think other teams view Iowa as much of a threat this season, so they have no reason to be intimidated by playing in Kinnick Stadium.
eveningnewsteam
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Exactly. Crowd noise is a non factor when opposition knows exactly what Iowa is going to do and knows there is a good chance there will be no pressure either.
Kinnick used to be a place where other teams came to die, kind of like the elephant's grave yard . Now it's a place where a woman's purse can not be larger than a sheet of paper and is searched for a low yield nuclear weapon that might be disguised as a sandwich and the open container law is viewed as a revenue source. All the time wine and cheese is being enjoyed behind glass by the rich while the rest of us in the cheap seats are too stunned to speak yet alone cheer for what we are being told is footbal.
