You apologist always play the same lame card. If it is all that easy to get top recruits from fifty miles from their campus then why were these programs down in the first place? Did they move their stadiums magically. It plain and simple its the coaching that changed one way or the other. Why has LSU gone from a mediocre SEC teams to playing for a third NATIONAL title? Did they move their campus suddenly closer to these superior recruits?
Same with Georgia. Over the last twenty years under their previous coach they would have teams that were and weren’t ranked in the top twenty-five. Very similar to Kirk. Yes there are a lot more recruits because close by maybe thousands but they can only recruit like twenty every year out of those thousands. It’s called an airplane. It’s called recruiting trips. It’s called getting off your fat cat ass and making it happen.
Three numbers over 60, 15, and zero. Over sixty million in Kirk’s bank account over the last fifteen years with ZERO conference championships.
I am not some Johnny come lately fan Iowa fan. Suffered through the Commings years in the mid-seventies. I want to hope your right that recruiting is picking up and that the program is on the rise. No we’re suppose to believe that somehow the University of Wisconsin has discovered the magic potion.
My comment about what if our defense ranked as bad as our offense the last ten years is dead on correct. Something has got to change with our offensive schemes, offensive recruiting, or offensive coaching. Only a putz would think otherwise. Two NFL tight ends, a Future NFL quarterback, and supposedly one of the best lines in college football last year and how did that work out for us last year???
I want to see us get a shot at a highly ranked or recognized team in our bowl game and get the win. Then I will feel a little better. It’s been hard today to watch these games today and not ever being able to cheer for Iowa for a CONFERENCE title. UNTIL that happens there is no chance of EVER doing anything g better. Some I know don’t care even though they claim to be Iowa fans. They say we can’t but I refuse to believe that. Maybe as long as the the same ole same ole continues in Iowa City then possible those fans are correct.
I find it hard to concede and say we are little ole Iowa and we NEVER can.
Oh poor poor Mr. Not Johnny Come Lately Fan, it is so so sad that you have had to suffer through so much pain and misery, not being able to see your beloved team play in the conference championship game! My heart hurts for you, because you being such a loyal and longtime fan deserve so much more! I hope, for your pitiful sake, that as a consolation prize, Iowa goes to a top tier bowl game and beats a favored SEC team just to make you feel a little better. I know that wouldn't be much, but it will have to do until we can get you a guaranteed conference championship every year with a few national titles mixed in. I know that would be tough to swallow too, to actually lose one, because spending 4 million a year on a head coach should lock us down for these nattys every year.
Is that what you want to hear? Seriously? Because that is what it sounds like. It also sounds pathetic.
Everyone wants to be elite, everyone. There are 14 teams in the B1G and all of them want to win, with 7 or 8 of them devoting the resources to do just that. You have 3-4 in the ACC, 9-10 in the SEC, 4-5 in the Big 12 and another 5 or 6 in the PAC 12. That makes somewhere plus or minus 30 teams that want to be great, elite, and do everything that we aspire to do. That is no excuse, just a fact that there is a lot of competition. And before you start whining more about KF's salary, go look at those 30 teams and see what they pay their coaches and let me know how that goes.
Fyi, I dont know if you noticed or not but we did go 12-0 only 4 years ago and made the conference title game and nearly won it.
I get it, when you look at the college football landscape the elite teams are dynamic on offense and they all spread you out. Some say we should do that too. But here is where the problem is: if you spread, there is no way that Iowa will be able to recruit the skill position talent it takes to run that on a consistent basis and so we will be competing against teams that do what we do with better talent. How many games will we win against OSU, PSU, or any other elites doing that? So would we be better off running the current scheme of playing close games?
This year, like last, we were in every game and could have won them all with things we can control with our scheme. We didnt lose any games because of the scheme. Turnovers, protection, no running game, all of those were the factors.
So you are the coach and given 2 choices: current scheme and have the ability to control the outcome of every game based on execution, or try to compete playing the same way as everyone else at a talent disadvantage? Which is it?
