No more Rose Bowls for a while please
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MoseSchrute
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I would now take any other BCS game over the Rose. I've seen enough. Came in through the back door on this one, anyway.
HawkeyeWalker
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Yes please.
Biggusblockus
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That was brutal to see in person. The Rose is great but now that I've been, I won't be going back if Iowa gets another bid. The team obviously has fun during the trip as well they should, but they just get housed in the game. Not even competitive. The thing was over in the first 10 minutes.
ThunderHawk
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Come on. That's only 98-0.
ThunderHawk
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This game reminded me of exactly those SBs. Of course I was a Steelers fan growing up so losing SBs was never an issue.
Regardless of the name of the bowl, it is clear we need to completely re-evaluate our bowl preparation again. We did the same thing after getting blown out by USC in the Orange Bowl at the end of the 2002 season. But now that our 4-game bowl losing streak has exceeded even Hayden Fry's bowl futility record (his worst streak in bowls was 0-3-1, one of which was also a Rose Bowl), we need to look at EVERYTHING. And we might start with the following:
+Because we travel so well, we will frequently be awarded bowl invitations above where we ordinarily would. That means we will ALWAYS be an underdog, and going up against a better team;
+We are out of our element no matter where we go - the distractions, in almost any bowl, will get in the way unless we have a plan how to deal with each of them. We just can't "let the trip happen" - which we clearly did in Pasadena;
+We will not have played in several weeks, and good KFz teams are always at their best when they have been playing recently. Since that can't happen at a bowl, we have to develop better strategies so we can "find our mojo" quickly - it took Stanford one whole play;
+It would help if we can stay consistently good so that a bowl like the Rose won't come in as the greatest thing to happen to Iowa in the last 25 years - our Sr's. will have seen enough to keep everything in perspective for our younger players.
Have NO idea (obviously) what will happen next year. But knowing KFz, our bowl preparation will improve dramatically, and we WILL win whatever bowl we do end up in. And by the way, I'm going to make a first prediction for our bowl at the end of next season - Citrus in Orlando (or whatever it will be called).
+Because we travel so well, we will frequently be awarded bowl invitations above where we ordinarily would. That means we will ALWAYS be an underdog, and going up against a better team;
+We are out of our element no matter where we go - the distractions, in almost any bowl, will get in the way unless we have a plan how to deal with each of them. We just can't "let the trip happen" - which we clearly did in Pasadena;
+We will not have played in several weeks, and good KFz teams are always at their best when they have been playing recently. Since that can't happen at a bowl, we have to develop better strategies so we can "find our mojo" quickly - it took Stanford one whole play;
+It would help if we can stay consistently good so that a bowl like the Rose won't come in as the greatest thing to happen to Iowa in the last 25 years - our Sr's. will have seen enough to keep everything in perspective for our younger players.
Have NO idea (obviously) what will happen next year. But knowing KFz, our bowl preparation will improve dramatically, and we WILL win whatever bowl we do end up in. And by the way, I'm going to make a first prediction for our bowl at the end of next season - Citrus in Orlando (or whatever it will be called).
hawkinn3
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What do they do with the other 29 days?
StatelineHawk
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Ouch.
I would take 11-1 or 12-0 and a Rose Bowl bid next year right now.
the hawks and mainly coaches need to maybe have more contact drills and scrimmaging during the bowl prep.
The coaches need to go totally against the grain since we usually are the underdog playing an opponenet up in the standings and we are usually playing against better athletes. Like how about coming out with designed QB run sweeps where you attack the edge and have an extra blocker in the running back. And then throw off of that type of play. Just something different.
the hawks and mainly coaches need to maybe have more contact drills and scrimmaging during the bowl prep.
The coaches need to go totally against the grain since we usually are the underdog playing an opponenet up in the standings and we are usually playing against better athletes. Like how about coming out with designed QB run sweeps where you attack the edge and have an extra blocker in the running back. And then throw off of that type of play. Just something different.
SteveGarvey
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Guess Cubs fans should hope they don't make the playoffs this year.
Nah, I'm not a quitter like that. I hope we go again next year and get a W.
CarfinoFan
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I had an amazing time at the game, tailgating and sitting in the Stanford end zone near the tunnel. I was drowning in a sea of red but to be there in person was special. I hope next year we make it back and get a W!
mccarthyizm
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This made me laugh, but I agree with the sentiment. I was disappointed with the offensive game plan yesterday. Iowa reminded me a little of the Georgia Tech team Iowa dominated in the Orange Bowl in 2009. Iowa had a month to prepare for that offense, and yet GT attempted to do what they had done all year. It failed spectacularly.
There have been Iowa teams in the past that were good enough to show up, do what they do well, and dominate an opponent that absolutely knew what was coming. But this was a much better opponent, and an overachieving Iowa team. I expected an offensive gameplay that was based more around the reality that they probably couldn't impose their will and would need to play a little rock/paper/scissors.
Seth53
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I'd rather have them in the final four quite frankly.
HawkeyeMHA
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I'll second and third that. Going to the rose bowl does us absolutely no good if we are going to be beaten that bad.
