AreWeThereYet
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If they bring out the longer oars watch for a sweep.
Minnesota’s New Unis Have An Oar On The Helmet
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HawkeyeWalker
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Wow. Just wow.
Strange crew they got up der.
Strange crew they got up der.
AreWeThereYet
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Check list for spring ball.
Shore up the bulkheads.
Calk the planking.
Pump out the bilge tanks.
Fasten & grease the oarlocks
Teach running backs how to take a heading.
Have offensive line maintain a good trim.
Have receivers practice tacking. Good tacking is always essential.
Scrape barnacles off defensive backfield.
Shore up the bulkheads.
Calk the planking.
Pump out the bilge tanks.
Fasten & grease the oarlocks
Teach running backs how to take a heading.
Have offensive line maintain a good trim.
Have receivers practice tacking. Good tacking is always essential.
Scrape barnacles off defensive backfield.
cornfedcowboy
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I am guessing Hayden never played against Spurrier.
EstronHawkKing
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Nothing say's Grid Iron intimidation like a Gophers football helmet..........
SteveGarvey1
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I was playing in a group ahead of Hayden one day at Finkbine. A couple times his ball sailed through our fairway. He wasn't good at golf which maybe explains why he was a good football coach.
Ree4
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Yeah I played a couple of holes with Hayden decades ago when I was in my teens and he didn't do that well
Adam
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Lol someone was a sailor.
TulipCityHawk
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As long as you also subtract from your 30 the number of games we were strong underdogs but still won. I would put that around 10-15.
NoBeer
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Why does winning games you SHOULD mean you can't ever win one you shouldn't? This mentality of "you can't have both" is why our athletic department gets away with mediocrity. "Well, I'm just happy we're not caught up in the FBI probe." That's not an excuse for not being good. When the dust settles there will be teams who were very good and didn't cheat.
How many teams in last years top ten didn't lose any games they SHOULD have won?
Motigerhawk
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You could combine this thread with the offseason levity thread. So much good in here.
Admitting my own bias, I think Iowa has some of the best uniforms in all of college football. I look forward to the alt uni's once a year, but like the traditional uniforms. I'd be so annoyed if Iowa ever hired someone like Fleck and included a schtick like 'Row the Boat' on their uniforms.
AreWeThereYet
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This is all well and fine, but I still say the Harvard rowing team is going to totally kick their little gopher asses.
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DDThompson
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This is a loop in your logic.
Opponents that should not lose to Iowa can use the same logic as saying Iowa should not lose to lesser programs.
The logic TCHawk points out is straight on and has nothing to do with accepting mediocrity.
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DDThompson
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PJ is Stealing the cry of the rowing team!
What are the supposed to say?
Pound the ball! ??
What are the supposed to say?
Pound the ball! ??
EstronHawkKing
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The car the U of Minnesota gave Fleck upon hire.......
I get it, that is what everyone wants. Win all of the games in which you are favored, pull some upsets as an underdog. But as DDThompson and TCHawk point out, it can't work that way for every team, for if every team always won as a favorite there would never be upsets.
There was a discussion before the PSU game this fall about probabilities based upon spreads. Surprisingly, 12.5 pt favorites (which is what PSU was at kickoff) ONLY win about 70% of the time, which is far from a sure thing. Iowa as a favorite since 2003 (the first year of the database on teamrankings.com) is 86-27 (76.2% win%), which is middle of the pack (59th) for FBS teams. As an underdog, they are 24-37 (39.3% win%, 11th best in FBS).
In terms of what we want to be, again Wisconsin is the model. Since 2010 (start of their surge and a brief downturn for Iowa), they have won 86% of their games as a favorite (6th best in FBS, 2nd in B1G behind OSU at 87.4%; Iowa at 75.7% is only 35th best in FBS). And Wisconsin is still pulling upsets at a good clip, with a 7-12 record as an underdog (36.8%), good for 22nd best in FBS. Probably to no one's surprise, MSU (16-14 as underdog) and NW (19-31 as underdog) are very good when the other team is favored. Iowa has actually been not-so-good pulling upsets since 2010, going only 9-25 as underdogs (59th in FBS).
hawkdrummer1
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another leak in the boat.
https://www.twincities.com/2018/03/06/gophers-running-back-shannon-brooks-ruled-out-for-2018-season/
https://www.twincities.com/2018/03/06/gophers-running-back-shannon-brooks-ruled-out-for-2018-season/
