Nebraska Week

Hard to believe he would still use the "culture" excuse and then blame the players. I don't see how that helps in the locker room.
After 2.5 years, you own the culture as a head coach. When Hayden came in, he made it clear what kind of culture and accountability he wanted from the players. It was about winning football games first. But it was also about individual accountability; going to class, working hard every day in practice, etc. If Frost is still worried about culture in year 3, the finger points to him, not the kids.
 
Some of their fans think he caught lighting in a bottle his 1 year in Florida and just might not be very good. hehehehe

A fancy offense will NOT work in the Big Ten after about the second or third week of October. I don't know how many times ADs will need to see this to understand it. Frost might be a fine coach if you put him somewhere like Baylor, TCU, Oregon, etc., where he will get a certain caliber athlete and doesn't see teams that are tough in the trenches every week, but his shit will not work in the B1G or SEC.
 
I think the only way Nebbie stays close to us is if we turn the ball over. I see us overpowering them for the most part. If BF calls a good game, Petras makes the plays he needs to, and backs hold onto the ball we come out on top.
 
As usual, a game like this is kind of a double-edged sword. I think Nebraska will come out with a lot of fire. It’s hard to get a team ‘up’ for Illinois, and they played like they hadn’t paid any attention during practice. That won’t be the case for this game, unless he’s flat-out lost the team. So I think we’ll need to take that fire away early.....if we don’t it’ll be a close one.

On the other hand, having watched Nebraska’s games, we’re clearly the better team, especially up front. On offense, they have McCaffery and Wandale. Both are very talented. Assuming they don’t go back to Martinez or start one of their other young QBs, McCaffery is a much more talented runner than Levis, but having seen a running QB last week should help us. McCaffery isnt polished at all as a thrower, so if we can contain him on the ground and limit Robinson’s impact, our D should be fine. And Levis was 13/16 throwing last week but still didn’t get it done. And our offense should be able to move the ball. We’ll need to take controlled rush lanes and not let McCaffery outside the pocket, but we know how to do that.

if Frost has lost the team, it’ll be a blow out. But I don’t think he has, so again as usual, this is going to be about taking their fire away in the first 5-7 minutes of each half, not giving the ball away, and just play our game. If we do that, it shouldn’t be close.

Iowa should win this game handily, but Iowa has been clearly the better team the last 2 seasons and in both cases need a last second score to put them away. That leaves me some reservation in just thinking this is gonna be an absolute beat down. The other side of me thinks.. "IL doesn't give AF about Nebraska and look how they did them, Iowa actually DOES care about Nebraska, this could get ugly."
 
Part of me wants a demoralizing blowout, and part of me wants another last-second Duncan FG to win it, so he can blow them kisses again...
 
How about both? Maybe a 55 point blowout with a meaningless Duncan FG as time expires to cover the halftime spread the gambling websites set after Iowa goes into the locker room with a 31-0 lead?


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Iowa should win this game handily, but Iowa has been clearly the better team the last 2 seasons and in both cases need a last second score to put them away. That leaves me some reservation in just thinking this is gonna be an absolute beat down. The other side of me thinks.. "IL doesn't give AF about Nebraska and look how they did them, Iowa actually DOES care about Nebraska, this could get ugly."

Oh I disagree and say Lovie and his players wanted to walk into Lincoln and make a statement. Illinois was 1-3 and manhandled Nebby and if the hawks play there game, a good game they win by about 2 TDs or more.

Two years ago Kirk made a bonehead decision to go for a short fake FG when I think he was already ahead by 15. Kirk could have had a 3 score lead and then to top it off the opponent Nebby fake punt gave them total life to score 15 straight points.

That game was over almost certainly if KIRK doesnt go all crazy and out of character on that fake FG.

I only feel pretty relaxed when Kirk has a 4 score lead with under 10 minutes to go ;)
 
I only feel pretty relaxed when Kirk has a 4 score lead with under 10 minutes to go

Bold. I need at least a 28 point lead, the ball, and the opposing defense standing there with their hands on the hips begging to get back on the bus with the offense running for 5-6 yards per carry before I start to relax with 10 minutes to go.
 
Wait, wasn't everyone thinking against Penn State when it was getting late in the fourth quarter, that Daviyon Nixon was going to intercept a pass in the flat and execute a perfect eurostep enroute to a 71 yard interception return.

Honestly...stuff of legend that one. That really was remarkable. His burst after the eurostep was really impressive...it was see ya!!!
 
Bold. I need at least a 28 point lead, the ball, and the opposing defense standing there with their hands on the hips begging to get back on the bus with the offense running for 5-6 yards per carry before I start to relax with 10 minutes to go.

Ever since my son and I were in the stadium iirc in 2005 when the hawks totally manhandled jNW in Evanston for 57 minutes or so on a miserable weather day but then gave up 14 points in the last two minutes to lose 28-27 I have noticed how the Kirk conservatism comes back to bite him, and all hawk fans, in the ass. And that game might have been the week after the hawks gave up a late lead and lost to Mich at home to give up their home winning streak. My point is the hawks can never have a big enough lead for me.

That game in Evanston was just a microcosm of that year of close but not quite games. Late in the game Chandler or some other TE for Iowa caught a pass and was pushed backwards a couple of yards and pushed out of bounds. Now 99.99% of the time the ref will windmill his arms to keep the clock running but he didnt. This was right in front of the Iowa bench and the coaches and players were all over that ref. That single play saved jNW a crucial timeout or 40 seconds of clock time. That was just an example but mainly Iowa shot itself in the foot, ankle and leg many times then and since then. But that is what makes Iowa an 8-4 team on average vs 9-3 or 10-2 more often than not.

That was not the main reason Iowa lost as it was just a team that squandered scoring opportuinites all year, like in their bowl game loss to Texas iirc, and also there were times the Iowa defense just couldnt get a stop, like late in the 2009 regular season.
 

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