Notebook: Urban Meyer A Fan of Iowa's Kirk Ferentz

Fryowa said:
That’s the funniest one I’ve heard here in a long time. Because I’m sure Kirk, Brian, and the rest of the Hawkeye athletic department is scouring HN to monitor @RobHowe and trying to bust him saying mean stuff about the coaches.

You drankin’ again Cletus?
Click to expand...

I'm sure they're not. But you can dam well bet someone is who can get info to KF and the staff. You're a complete fool and naive if you think otherwise.

KF knows the fans are not happy as he called them "armchair Quarterbacks in the des moines rag over the weekend. He was talking about the fact he says Iowa is improving when the "armchair quarterbacks" don't think they are. Where do you think he heard that from? The media sure isn't saying it to him.
 
Last edited:
hawkinstl said:
I'm sure they're not. But you can dam well bet someone is who can get info to KF and the staff. You're a complete fool and naive if you think otherwise.

KF knows the fans are not happy as he called them "armchair Quarterbacks in the des moines rag over the weekend. He was talking about the fact he says Iowa is improving when the "armchair quarterbacks" don't think they are. Where do you think he heard that from? The media sure isn't saying it to him.
Click to expand...
Are you smoking a foiley with @Joshbrown again?

That’s the only way that makes sense.
 
Look, this has nothing to do with Iowa or KF, it is purely Meyer's way of building up his next opponent so that when they beat Iowa by 50, it makes their CFP resume look better. Urban Meyer is all about Urban Meyer and OSU, he's only using Iowa and KF as a platform to make his own team look more impressive.

I know it's not likely but I would like to see Iowa play their most complete game of they year, just to knock that phony Meyer off his platform and to take away some of the smugness from their fan base. If any team receives more undeserved points in the CFP than OSU, it would be news to me.
 
DJI9424 said:
Look, this has nothing to do with Iowa or KF, it is purely Meyer's way of building up his next opponent so that when they beat Iowa by 50, it makes their CFP resume look better. Urban Meyer is all about Urban Meyer and OSU, he's only using Iowa and KF as a platform to make his own team look more impressive.

I know it's not likely but I would like to see Iowa play their most complete game of they year, just to knock that phony Meyer off his platform and to take away some of the smugness from their fan base. If any team receives more undeserved points in the CFP than OSU, it would be news to me.
Click to expand...

Maybe, just maybe it is showing respect as most coaches do toward one another. But nah we have to find some underlying sinister motive to insinuate it can't be.
 
OK, which one of you wrote this on Buck Nut? Rob?

I'm marking this as a marquee matchup regardless of where Iowa's ranked or not ranked currently.

It's amazing that we've only played them seven times in the past fifteen years ('03, '04, '05, '06, '09, '10 and '13). This will also be Meyer and this entire team's first-ever trip to Kinnick so they have no idea what's in store for them in terms of the fans and those infamous pink lockerrooms.

The last time we played in Kinnick was in 2010 and it was that season's marquee in-conference matchup for the Bucks. Both of whom were coming off big wins in their Rose and Orange Bowl matchups and expected to once again contend for the B1G crown. Another close, classic game that came down to a game of inches. Recall Pryor's 4th down conversion late in the game. A gutsy play. And then there's the one here from four years ago where Iowa's defense had not allowed a rushing TD up to that point until Hyde barreled in for a tough score. Roby also got ejected in that game for a bogus targeting call.

The one thing you can always expect whenever playing a team like Iowa is that their players will be well coached and well prepared. It's one of those matchups where you forget about the fact that the guy across from you was either a 2-star player or one who was unranked. And so I'm looking at this game much in the way I was the ones in 2006 and 2010 when it was a must win for the Bucks if they hope to win the conference.
 
HawkGold said:
OK, which one of you wrote this on Buck Nut? Rob?

I'm marking this as a marquee matchup regardless of where Iowa's ranked or not ranked currently.

It's amazing that we've only played them seven times in the past fifteen years ('03, '04, '05, '06, '09, '10 and '13). This will also be Meyer and this entire team's first-ever trip to Kinnick so they have no idea what's in store for them in terms of the fans and those infamous pink lockerrooms.

The last time we played in Kinnick was in 2010 and it was that season's marquee in-conference matchup for the Bucks. Both of whom were coming off big wins in their Rose and Orange Bowl matchups and expected to once again contend for the B1G crown. Another close, classic game that came down to a game of inches. Recall Pryor's 4th down conversion late in the game. A gutsy play. And then there's the one here from four years ago where Iowa's defense had not allowed a rushing TD up to that point until Hyde barreled in for a tough score. Roby also got ejected in that game for a bogus targeting call.

The one thing you can always expect whenever playing a team like Iowa is that their players will be well coached and well prepared. It's one of those matchups where you forget about the fact that the guy across from you was either a 2-star player or one who was unranked. And so I'm looking at this game much in the way I was the ones in 2006 and 2010 when it was a must win for the Bucks if they hope to win the conference.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure what Buck Nut is but it sounds painful.
 
westender said:
Exactly. We have been in every game we lost right to the end. Some people on here are just unhinged.
Click to expand...


You're correct in that some are unhinged. Some of us are realistic as well. KF gets more conservative as each year passes by. In other words he goes the opposite direction philosophy wise of the rest of college football.

Iowa almost always plays well versus Penn State, save for last year and Michigan. On the flip side The OSU, more times than not pound Iowa into the ground.

I'd expect nothing less than that Saturday and hope I am 1,000% wrong.

We will know by about 6:00 PM Saturday I guess.
 
westender said:
Maybe, just maybe it is showing respect as most coaches do toward one another. But nah we have to find some underlying sinister motive to insinuate it can't be.
Click to expand...

You can believe whatever you want, but given that the CFP voting begins this week, you have to be very naive to not know that Meyer is primarily talking up his own team with his remarks about KF. His complimentary words are just that, they are preemptive damage control in the event that OSU does not blow Iowa off the field.

I lived in Columbus for several years, I know what a fishbowl environment that Meyer lives in so I know where he is coming from when he makes such remarks. As you opine, he may have expressed some sincerity with his remarks, but the idea there was no underlying motive to buttress his own team's CFP ratings is too kind. His remarks were superficially complimentary, but his primary motivation was to influence the CFP voters, of that you can be sure.
 
---------armchair Quarterbacks

No wonder our offense is stuck in the 1930's, when our coach chooses to borrow a 1970's term.
 
Knight78 said:
FIFY.
Click to expand...

It's a popularity contest, no question. But now that ESPN is losing viewership at an alarming rate, that may change.

Speaking only about 2017, Alabama and Georgia are legitimate, they don't need any ESPN cheer leading but both OSU and Notre Dame are in the mix because of their cachet and what their fan bases bring to the NCAA and TV network's potential revenue.

The NCAA and ESPN have turned the CFP series into college football's version of Dancing with the Stars. It's too bad that is what it has become but I can't say I'm surprised.
 
Last edited:
RobHowe said:
Iowa has a chance to prove the next two weeks that it's a good team. It also hasn't lost to a bad team, yet.
Click to expand...

Northwestern is a bad football team. There have been a couple other bad teams this year that have given Iowa a real battle for most of the game. N. Texas, Illinois? This Iowa team is average at best. Defense is good against bad offenses, but will be exposed against teams that can move the ball. Offense is just plain bad.
 
Caddy said:
Northwestern is a bad football team. There have been a couple other bad teams this year that have given Iowa a real battle for most of the game. N. Texas, Illinois? This Iowa team is average at best. Defense is good against bad offenses, but will be exposed against teams that can move the ball. Offense is just plain bad.
Click to expand...

Northwestern is not bad by my definition. I’d put them them in the average category. It’s beaten a Top 25 team in MSU and was leading Wisconsin in Madison at halftime. Illinois is bad. If you’re going to play the almost lost to the Illini and N Texas game, Iowa also lost to Penn St. on the final play and by one possession at MSU.
 
The two freshman OTs will be tested mightily if they didn't already know that.
DJI9424 said:
You can believe whatever you want, but given that the CFP voting begins this week, you have to be very naive to not know that Meyer is primarily talking up his own team with his remarks about KF. His complimentary words are just that, they are preemptive damage control in the event that OSU does not blow Iowa off the field.

I lived in Columbus for several years, I know what a fishbowl environment that Meyer lives in so I know where he is coming from when he makes such remarks. As you opine, he may have expressed some sincerity with his remarks, but the idea there was no underlying motive to buttress his own team's CFP ratings is too kind. His remarks were superficially complimentary, but his primary motivation was to influence the CFP voters, of that you can be sure.
Click to expand...

It doesn't matter. Ohio State has to win out to make playoff, no matter who they play they have to win. Iowa or Morningside College. Have to win. And no way they are held out of it if they win out no matter what the scores of the games are.
 
RobHowe said:
Northwestern is not bad by my definition. I’d put them them in the average category. It’s beaten a Top 25 team in MSU and was leading Wisconsin in Madison at halftime. Illinois is bad. If you’re going to play the almost lost to the Illini and N Texas game, Iowa also lost to Penn St. on the final play and by one possession at MSU.
Click to expand...

You are talking to the negative outlook persons so they don't want to hear that.
 
hawkinstl said:
You're correct in that some are unhinged. Some of us are realistic as well. KF gets more conservative as each year passes by. In other words he goes the opposite direction philosophy wise of the rest of college football.

Iowa almost always plays well versus Penn State, save for last year and Michigan. On the flip side The OSU, more times than not pound Iowa into the ground.

I'd expect nothing less than that Saturday and hope I am 1,000% wrong.

We will know by about 6:00 PM Saturday I guess.
Click to expand...

Yeah they run the ball up the middle on every play and then punt. And on defense they play prevent defense every down. That is how some come across on "conservative".

"almost plays well against Penn State"? They played great and played hard. No one in the stands was down on that team after that game.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Share this page

Top