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[HawkeyeWalker]

2% according to the article Jon has posted on here. 50:1 - Maybe a dull razor, hurts more when it cuts you. Things will be a little clearer after Saturday.

Sat is big, but to me the NW will tell the story (I'll go on record that I still don't think they are as good as they've looked, but still, a win vs. NW and things will look pretty good)

Hopefully, we can get better every week, get healthy. ....and just win.

It's really unbelievable and awesome we can even be talking about Indy, given the preseason narrative.

 

[SmokeTownHawk]

If we're 7-0 and relatively healthy headed into the bye week, paraphrasing Ron Gonder on WMT, "We'll be able to smell the cabbage cooking from here."

 

[hawkeyebob62]

But how many close plays were we from being 44-20, instead of 34-30, or even 24-40? The being that we went through 5 seasons of losing those "close" games" Kirk is reinvented, to a degree. He deserves credit for that. But he isn't all the way there, yet. I still believe he made personnel mistakes this non con by not playing J. Smith with the 1's against Ill St and UNT, instead of waiting until the WUs game. And I think he's made some strategy mistake: ISU (end of half), not clocking the ball with .24 left against Pitt and not kicking 20 yard fg to tie WUs at 3-3. Do folks realize that if Stave hadn't fumbled, WUs probably scores to go up 13-10? And we didn't even attempt fg in 1st qtr on the road. Don't get that at all.

I don't know your political views, but if I HAD to guess, you focus a ton on what happened from early-2001 to early-2009 rather than the present day.

<<Do folks realize if Stave hadn't fumbled...>>

And do folks realize if Wisky had been called for an OB/late hit on CJB...?

Or do folks realize Wisky benefitted from some questionable PI calls?

Do folks realize if Koehn hits that first FG, we'd have been up 13-6? Add in the other 4th-down fail, and if we score, we could've been up 20-6?

Do you realize if Texas belonged to Mexico, Drew Tate might not have come to Iowa? Or if Canada was still part of "The Crown", Tevaun Smith could be playing "non-American" football?

Dude, give it a rest. We're 5-0. We aren't going undefeated, we have just as good a chance of NOT winning the B1G West as we do of winning it. But, good Lord, why LOOK for ways to post miserable stuff or complain about stuff from two seasons ago or who did/didn't play a given position at a given time?

Kirk is Kirk. Not a mystery, there, sport.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Sat is big, but to me the NW will tell the story (I'll go on record that I still don't think they are as good as they've looked, but still, a win vs. NW and things will look pretty good)

Hopefully, we can get better every week, get healthy. ....and just win.

It's really unbelievable and awesome we can even be talking about Indy, given the preseason narrative.

OK, here goes: When I was in college, a win over NW didn't tell a story, it meant we saw 3rd- and 4th-stringers whose names we'd never seen and/or heard

 

[hawkation]

So most fans were calling for Ferentz to be fired, when the reality is he was a few close plays from possibly being 10-2 or 11-1. This year he's winning those close games (so far) and people are loving the supposed reinvented Kirk Ferentz.

Amazing how things can change when you win close games

I was one of the (few) fans calling for Ferentz head last year, especially after getting demolished by Tennessee. The difference from last year isn’t only the winning, it’s the fake field goals and aggressive play calling. The hawks aren’t running the same predictable plays and taking a knee with time left on the play clock. Near the end of the Illinois State game, Iowa could have taken a knee and left with a win. Kirk let the hawks play and we won by a wider margin. Beating an FCS school 31-14 looks a lot better then 24-14. That’s why I am loving Kirk again! Go Hawks!