No Pinstripe love from PennLive

[BigD]

I can't tell you right now what day or time it is, honest? I have to Google it or look at the very first post in this thread.

I enjoyed your last three post especially the one on the 7-5 record and playing two pattzies. Maybe three patttzies most years and you take that away and your looking at 4-5 against Legit competition’ and people wonder why some on here are upset? Our offense ranks in the seventies. If KF did this in SEC country he would have been run off long ago and feared for his and his family’s well being. I am not saying I agree with that level of fanaticism but I have equal dislike for apathetic fans who support whatever KF does. I’d rather watch a wildcat formation then watch this boring methodical crap of the last four years. I think about the cartoon show road runner and the coyote that keep keeping smashed and crushed. They should put Iowa colors on him and after he gets smashed with a huge boulder he pulls out a flag that says “Go Kirk!!!”

 

[DBAHawkFan]

If our offense could rank in the 70s (assuming you mean stats, not decade) we'd probably be in the Big10 Championship game most years.

We spent all year in the 100s, and aside from OSU, and a NE team that quit, we struggled to break 17 points in conference play.

That's where I'm at with this program, I just can't be bothered to watch them. 2015 was fun because we had CJB to pull miracles every week. But even that team still had issues on offense. He just made it bearable because we won every game (till post season)

I don't know if you could pick a more boring match-up for bowl season

 

[MelroseHawkins]

I enjoyed your last three post especially the one on the 7-5 record and playing two pattzies. Maybe three patttzies most years and you take that away and your looking at 4-5 against Legit competition’ and people wonder why some on here are upset? Our offense ranks in the seventies. If KF did this in SEC country he would have been run off long ago and feared for his and his family’s well being. I am not saying I agree with that level of fanaticism but I have equal dislike for apathetic fans who support whatever KF does. I’d rather watch a wildcat formation then watch this boring methodical crap of the last four years. I think about the cartoon show road runner and the coyote that keep keeping smashed and crushed. They should put Iowa colors on him and after he gets smashed with a huge boulder he pulls out a flag that says “Go Kirk!!!”

I really enjoyed watching Iowa States offense this past season, even with a back-up QB.

 

[BigD]

If our offense could rank in the 70s (assuming you mean stats, not decade) we'd probably be in the Big10 Championship game most years.

We spent all year in the 100s, and aside from OSU, and a NE team that quit, we struggled to break 17 points in conference play.

That's where I'm at with this program, I just can't be bothered to watch them. 2015 was fun because we had CJB to pull miracles every week. But even that team still had issues on offense. He just made it bearable because we won every game (till post season)

I don't know if you could pick a more boring match-up for bowl season

Yeah I remember an announcer saying something about being ranked in the seventies but that may have been earlier in the season. Of course maybe he was talking early 1970’s before Hayden got here. Kirk just doesn’t understand that fans want to be entertained. It’s college football for god sakes not a four million dollar a year charity ball.

 

[DBAHawkFan]

I could be entertained with a Pro Style offense, it's just that we seem to make so many STUPID mistakes, Play calls, or just baffling decisions week in and week out. WI isn't a spread team, they run the ball, they're not known as "sexy", yet all they do is freaking win. Yeah they didn't beat OSU in the Championship game, but how many times do you beat OSU? Kirk's done it twice in 20 years. How many times did Hayden?

The point is they put themselves in a position to play for championships. Kirk has Iowa scared 99% of the time to make a mistake. So we slow the game down and hope the other team makes a mistake and we pounce on it. The years that we do, we are successful. The years we don't, we look like this, 7-5 with a lot of head scratching and losses to Purdue.

I'll be curious to see how we come out against BC since it's the first time since Mizzou that we haven't played a team that has 4-5* loaded on their roster. If we still look like the past seven years in Bowl games, then there is something seriously wrong with how Iowa practices and goes about business (which is obvious anyway)

 

[DDThompson]

I've always thought 7-5 is really a .500 record in college football. Most teams schedule two pattsies early in the non-conf schedule that should win anyway.

This.
Playing 9 conference games is going to make it hard to hide average football teams.

 

[Ree4]

If our offense could rank in the 70s (assuming you mean stats, not decade) we'd probably be in the Big10 Championship game most years.

We spent all year in the 100s, and aside from OSU, and a NE team that quit, we struggled to break 17 points in conference play.

That's where I'm at with this program, I just can't be bothered to watch them. 2015 was fun because we had CJB to pull miracles every week. But even that team still had issues on offense. He just made it bearable because we won every game (till post season)

I don't know if you could pick a more boring match-up for bowl season

Our scoring offense ranked 68th so we were right there, the problem was that a few of the games were very lopsided as you said - OSU and Nebby stick out. We just didn't score very consistently. I've always thought YPG stats were pointless when it comes to Iowa, yards per play/points per possession are a better measure of offense but I have no idea how we did in that category because I'm at work, but it probably was not that great.

Same with defense, I don't care how many yards we give up, points per possession are probably the best stat to see how good we are.

 

[Sooby]

The days of getting 30,000 to travel to a 2nd tier bowl game might be over. With the TV money getting a bunch of people to travel doesn’t matter nearly as much.

The Outback Bowl chose Iowa for the 5th time in 13 years over Debbie for the 1st time.

Iowa fans would continue to drove to Tampa.
It's a great area, and the bowl activities from Clearwater Beach to the Ybor City New Year's Eve parade are great.
Our family went to 4 of the 5 Outback Bowls. Missed out on the horribly officiated 2005 Outback Bowl.

I don't necessarily like the new bowl agreements, where 5 different teams have to go in a 6-year period.
I rather the bowls, between each other, work thing out.