mass firings need to occur after this game

HomerChampless said:
I don't get it. The defense gave up big play after big play tonight. Six hundred yards of total offense to PSU and you want to blame the offense? Prejudice much? The whole team stinks from the head coach on down. Fire them all.
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HC, the defense was on the field for 72 plays because the offense couldn't get its sh*t together. So, yes, much of the defenses woes were due to being on the field way too much, and, we don't have backups that can play. So the starters had to go most, if not all, of the way.
 
The entire staff needs to go.. KF included. He is the major problem, and is the one responsible for everything that happens. What a joke the program has become, and if he isnt gone soon the program will sink to lows it might never recover from..
 
seepig said:
I would tell GD sorry dude you're retirement age you're gone. Let his son call plays see if anything gets better the remainder of the year. We need to know asap if BF can run an offense. Might as well do it during a dumpster fire seasson.
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I agree GD needs to be gone......but why in all that is Holy do you want Brian to take over? I don't want that kid given the keys to the offense...or anything else. He needs to be shown the door, same as GD.
 
There aren't going to be any firings. There isn't going to be any change. We're going to lose recruits to better schools, and we'll replace them with gritty scrappy corn-fed underachievers who were going to go to FCS schools and will become average starters in their senior year.

In short, we're justIowa. And if you want to spend money on justIowa, knock yourself out. You're probably too stupid to understand this post, anyway.
 
ArvadaHawk said:
HC, the defense was on the field for 72 plays because the offense couldn't get its sh*t together. So, yes, much of the defenses woes were due to being on the field way too much, and, we don't have backups that can play. So the starters had to go most, if not all, of the way.
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Well, you know (or, at least won't acknowledge) Iowa's defense has never been able to handle a good spread offense during the KF era. The best Iowa's defense could do against any good spread offense was to delay the inevitable long enough for a turnover or a stop on fourth down.

This 2016 version of Iowa's defense also can't stop any playmakers in a spread offense. Side note: Did you watch any of the LSU vs. Alabama game? LSU has about as, in your words, futile an offense as Iowa's yet kept the game close the entire game with great defense. Iowa doesn't, scratch that, has never had a great defense against playmakers in spread offenses under KF.

To your point of Iowa's defense being on the field for 72 plays: Iowa's defensive scheme is designed to be on the field for long stretches of the game. That's the concept of Iowa's defense. Bend and bend and bend but don't break. Can you see where Iowa's defense is regularly on the field for extended amounts of time because the defense scheme calls for it?? What has the defense done to change schemes to change this alarming trend in Iowa's defense? Bend and bend and bend but don't break is fine, if 20th century. Bend and break and break and break quickly is not.

If you understand Iowa's defensive scheme is to keep the defense on the field for extended minutes in a game, you understand this also limits the amount of minutes Iowa's offense gets and also why at the end of games Iowa's defense is always so pooped.
 
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Joshbrown said:
Everything on this board is repetitive . . . why stop others from having fun??????
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You know I don't wield the power to stop anyone from having "fun" here. it was more of a kind request.

You know I don't wield the power to stop anyone from having "fun" here. it was more of a kind request

You know I don't wield the power to stop anyone from having "fun" here. it was more of a kind request

You know I don't wield the power to stop anyone from having "fun" here. it was more of a kind request

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HomerChampless said:
Well, you know (or, at least won't acknowledge) Iowa's defense has never been able to handle a good spread offense during the KF era. The best Iowa's defense could do against any good spread offense was to delay the inevitable long enough for a turnover or a stop on fourth down.

This 2016 version of Iowa's defense also can't stop any playmakers in a spread offense. Side note: Did you watch any of the LSU vs. Alabama game? LSU has about as, in your words, futile an offense as Iowa's yet kept the game close the entire game with great defense. Iowa doesn't, scratch that, has never had a great defense against playmakers in spread offenses under KF.

To your point of Iowa's defense being on the field for 72 plays: Iowa's defensive scheme is designed to be on the field for long stretches of the game. That's the concept of Iowa's defense. Bend and bend and bend but don't break. Can you see where Iowa's defense is regularly on the field for extended amounts of time because the defense scheme calls for it?? What has the defense done to change schemes to change this alarming trend in Iowa's defense? Bend and bend and bend but don't break is fine, if 20th century. Bend and break and break and break quickly is not.

If you understand Iowa's defensive scheme is to keep the defense on the field for extended minutes in a game, you understand this also limits the amount of minutes Iowa's offense gets and also why at the end of games Iowa's defense is always so pooped.
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HC, I think we're all aware of Iowa's defensive philosophy of bend/don't break. But just because they're design to bend/don't break, doesn't mean they are a limitless pool of stamina and energy. The offense has a job to score points and not have 3 and outs when the defense is designed to bend/don't break. The offense didn't come close to that.

You're spot on with the spread teams that expose kirk ferentz' defenses. I stated after the 2nd game of the season that our lb'ers were too slow, laterally, and at full speed. yet, king gets burned for a touchdown because he was cheating on his coverage because 41 or 44 was guarding a WR. kirk ferentz' defense and offense need to be re-thought.
 
ArvadaHawk said:
yet, king gets burned for a touchdown because he was cheating on his coverage because 41 or 44 was guarding a WR. kirk ferentz' defense and offense need to be re-thought.
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He's had 18yrs to rethink things. There is only one solution and Kirk rethinking things isn't it.
 
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blubberhawk said:
Oh come on.. This staff does nothing to react to what other teams are doing on the field. Last night was a prime example. Watch the damn game over and see if Iowa changed anything to control the "read option". Any clown off the street could see what Penn State was exploiting and we did nothing to react. Also, Bo Bower covering their best back in space? It was a comical performance by an inept staff. What does Iowa do from game to game, offensively, to give other teams something to prepare for? Absolutely nothing. Iowa had two full weeks to prepare for Penn State. What in the "F" did they do with all the practice time?
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They did what they always do, work on execution - i.e., clean up those little things on the 6 basic offensive plays and four basic defensive formations. Problem is you can't expect walk-ons from small Iowa schools to be successful against teams flexible enough to exploit those vulnerabilities. Remember that this formula has worked 4 or 5 times out of 17 tries. That's enough to satisfy the big donors and the administration. A huge drop in season tickets is the only way things will change and that has worked 1 out of 1 time.
 
ArvadaHawk said:
HC, the defense was on the field for 72 plays because the offense couldn't get its sh*t together. So, yes, much of the defenses woes were due to being on the field way too much, and, we don't have backups that can play. So the starters had to go most, if not all, of the way.
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599 yards, and 350+ of them rushing. That's BAD defense. That's big 12 level defense. There's plenty of blame to put on the offense, yes, but you have to try to play defense that badly.
 
mrolympia said:
599 yards, and 350+ of them rushing. That's BAD defense. That's big 12 level defense. There's plenty of blame to put on the offense, yes, but you have to try to play defense that badly.
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This game the defense sucked. Most games the offense sucks worse. Either way, suckage is what Iowa is good at under this new contract.
 
mrolympia said:
599 yards, and 350+ of them rushing. That's BAD defense. That's big 12 level defense. There's plenty of blame to put on the offense, yes, but you have to try to play defense that badly.
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I am not defending the defense, but pointing out how the offense and the defense rely on each other. And when your defense isn't 2009 talented and deep, you need the offense to pull its fair share.
 
ArvadaHawk said:
I am not defending the defense, but pointing out how the offense and the defense rely on each other. And when your defense isn't 2009 talented and deep, you need the offense to pull its fair share.
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Or be like Wisconsin and have a lights out defense (I'm not necessarily advocating a 3-4 defense..I'm not not necessarily advocating a 3-4 defense, either) every year and be at the top of the B1G West every year even with the routinely pedestrian offense they seem to have every year.

I think defense wins championships. You seem to think the offense has to help out the defense. The thing is, KF doesn't want the offense to be the deciding factor in the game. The offense is hamstrung out of the gate.
 
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HomerChampless said:
Or be like Wisconsin and have a lights out defense (I'm not necessarily advocating a 3-4 defense..I'm not not necessarily advocating a 3-4 defense, either) every year and be at the top of the B1G West every year even with the routinely pedestrian offense they seem to have every year.

I think defense wins championships. You seem to think the offense has to help out the defense. The thing is, KF doesn't want the offense to be the deciding factor in the game. The offense is hamstrung out of the gate.
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We'd be 7-2 with even a pedestrian offense, possibly 8-1. That said, if we had wiskys schedule, wed be 4-5, or worse. but I agree with your sentiment.
 
mrolympia said:
basically every assistant need not get on the bus back to the airport. Shame Iowa's stuck with ferentz's asinine buyout. Thanks barta, you've murdered Iowa football.
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