Schwartz: Sunday Notebook - Hitting the Reset Button
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Joshbrown
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Dave brings up some good points. He mentions that he has no idea how Iowa will perform in the fall.
I think that's the Hallmark of the Kirk Ferentz era: Inconsistency.
He also mentions the 20 million for Delaney. I think there's a strong argument for congress to strip FBS programs of their non-profit status. Start treating them like the corporate entities that they are. Or, force the sports departments to put most of their revenue into the general fund. And the same rule would apply to any other department swimming in money. Put a cap on salaries and contracts for any/every employee of the University. Doing this would get tuition under control and benefit general research and better serve the mission of the University: which is to educate young minds. Which would be a welcome change as most colleges are indoctrination centers.
I think that's the Hallmark of the Kirk Ferentz era: Inconsistency.
He also mentions the 20 million for Delaney. I think there's a strong argument for congress to strip FBS programs of their non-profit status. Start treating them like the corporate entities that they are. Or, force the sports departments to put most of their revenue into the general fund. And the same rule would apply to any other department swimming in money. Put a cap on salaries and contracts for any/every employee of the University. Doing this would get tuition under control and benefit general research and better serve the mission of the University: which is to educate young minds. Which would be a welcome change as most colleges are indoctrination centers.
PawkHawk1
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No.
Put cap on it?
hawkeyemark
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I have a feeling that the Hawks will surprise this fall which generally fits the pattern of over achieving when nobody expects much from them. Hard to judge the offense from the spring game with everybody learning the new nuances and language of the updated offense. By fall a quarterback should emerge and we will have the freshman receivers to integrate into the passing game which at least a couple of them should play big roles in. The strength at tight end and offensive line and on defense should keep us in most games I would think.
The money situation has become rather ridiculous and I tend to agree with the notion of treating athletic departments like corporate entities. Down the road it will become a different ball game with media revenue becoming less of a cash cow and one way or the other colleges and universities have no choice but to deal with tuition costs which accounts for why in my world the military has so many bright young people to pick and choose from. I think we have seen the focus on revenue and not running an effective athletic department come to a head with recent events which Iowa has to address cleaning up this mess and charting their course ahead.
The money situation has become rather ridiculous and I tend to agree with the notion of treating athletic departments like corporate entities. Down the road it will become a different ball game with media revenue becoming less of a cash cow and one way or the other colleges and universities have no choice but to deal with tuition costs which accounts for why in my world the military has so many bright young people to pick and choose from. I think we have seen the focus on revenue and not running an effective athletic department come to a head with recent events which Iowa has to address cleaning up this mess and charting their course ahead.
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hawkeyemark
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Josh, I see nobody has answered your question and I hesitated to as well because I don't think you can put a number on the number of wins that would define over achieving. Wisconsin seems the consensus favorite to win the West but if Iowa can finish a solid second not in the middle of the pack which most people predict than I would say we will likely have exceeded expectations.
If we can get to November still in the hunt for the division title then we will sit in really good shape to surpass what people expect from us. Then we face that gauntlet where we have Ohio State, Wisconsin and Nebraska to close things out. If we can get a win out of that group we will sit at a good place and more than one win would seem like gravy.
tksirius
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It'll cover about 14 Jane Meyers
WinOneThisCentury
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Honestly, how can anyone have a problem with playing players a stipend of $200 a month or similar? You want to slow down the cheating in CFB (you will never stop it) take some of the incentive out of it for certain players who come into college with zero money, other than their scholly. You ask them to dedicate themselves to the sport, so we can enjoy a competitive product on the field, but if he wants to go out and get pizza on a Saturday night, he's got no means to do it. Yet the fruits of his labor, allows the league commissioner to pocket a $20M bonus. It's lunacy.
If you take away incentive to cheat, only the true degenerates will still try to game the system. I think it should be part of the scholarship and dont' give me the free education line of reasoning against it. Athletes don't spend all their time on the field or in class...the difference is that a regular student can find a job if he needs spending money...a D1 athlete doesn't have that free time.
If you take away incentive to cheat, only the true degenerates will still try to game the system. I think it should be part of the scholarship and dont' give me the free education line of reasoning against it. Athletes don't spend all their time on the field or in class...the difference is that a regular student can find a job if he needs spending money...a D1 athlete doesn't have that free time.
Joshbrown
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This kinda explains why I'm not happy with the current state of the program. Expectations seem to be low most years. The minority of years where they seem to be high, we usually don't do anything special.
A question specifically for mark who seems reasonable.
Tell me the years you've had high expectations for Hawkeye football ???
tksirius
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I'm not sure why we fired 3 coaches if we don't expect better results. This whole WR/QB thing is just setting up lower expectations, when we should be expecting something better. New coaches along with over 90% returning from the Joe Moore Award winning OL should mean a better passing game and a better offense in general, not this bs excuse game we've been getting so far.
hawkeyemark
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I would say that not having high expectations for this season seems reasonable with the lack of experience at quarterback and as Brian Ferentz puts it the mess we have at wide receiver along with with the adjustments of adapting to a new offense. We should hold our own on both sides of the line of scrimmage and go from there.
I very much agree with your take about not usually having high expectations which seems ingrained in the culture with Barta at the helm as AD and the way he has handled contracts. I very much hope that when we replace him as seems likely that we can move past that mindset. Whoever takes the position over will have the task of running a tighter ship when it comes to managing the athletic department and hopefully will demand some accountability with resources likely not as plentiful down the road as what we swim in now.
