judzeehawk
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Soooo it's already cut and dried that we get our doors blown off in a bowl game. Yeah ok.
Some early Iowa preseason rankings
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NCHawker
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Son there aint no BCS no more.
The National Championship aspirations will also come down to whether an undefeated Hawkeye team meets a highly rated Pac-10 team in the Rose Bowl Game, or whether the Bowl Coalition will screw us over by setting up a Sugar Bowl or Orange Bowl match that will put their champion over the top when the AP final votes start to roll in.
The Big LeHAWKski
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Well, there it is.
The scab from my gut-wrenching trip to Pasadena just got ripped off...again.
InGoodCo
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You wait for those... personally I saw them beat #3 and undefeated Michigan just last season.
BigD
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ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
Sad because it is so true. Many talk of IF we can finish in second place in our division it's an achievement. I guess I have trouble with that. I think back to the days when ten teams (or eleven if you want to include Penn State) competed against each other in one conference and one division. If we went back to that standard I would have try to be fair and say this; In my opinion the East division is so much more stronger than the west and Iowa would be very fortunate to finish in third or fourth place in that division. Throw in Wisconsin and that possibly pushes Iowa into a fifth place finish going up against the entire conference in ONE division.
Somehow I find that distasteful and unimpressive. Yet some seem perfectly content with it. This is not the spirit of true competition. A true competitor sets goals to be the very best. To win an outright conference title and contend for a national title. That should be the goal every single year. Is it obtainable? Of course not but it should be the goal and hope of everybody coach player and fan of Iowa football. Should it be achieved at least one every so many years for each team in the conference? I guess it depends on what should be expected from any coach in any sport that is paid one of the top salaries in the sport.
Penn State, Rutgers, Nebraska, and Maryland moved us up from ten teams in the conference to fourteen. So asking a program and its coach to win the conference at least once every 15 years is totally reasonable unless your a bottom feeder program. In that case do t expect it to ever happen. I feel Iowa is anything but a bottom feeder.
I guess I can only hope that the new coaching staff brings a unique chemistry to the program and catches lightning in a bottle. As Iowa fans we all deserve to get to experience it at least once. I am hoping for the best. If it's the same ole same ole I will have a feeling of total hopelessness with this coaching staff.
HomerChampless
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Yeah, but our head coach is Kurt Ferentz, isn't he? The poster should be negative about Iowa's chances.
On a side note, at least Iowa's head coach and Michigan's head coach are inept.
Harbaugh is the George Ravelling of coaches. Can recruit. Can't coach.
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InGoodCo
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Ole Kurt is at the very least top 5 coach in the B1G and top 25 nationally, what a disadvantage he brings to the school.
HomerChampless
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He can't coach nor can he recruit. Good thing Ferentz coaches in the West division of the B1G. Ivy League or Mid-American conferences would also be good fits for Kurt.
I take back the Mid-American Conference suggestion as a good fit for Ferentz. He is flummoxed by the spread offense.
InGoodCo
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One of my friends is good at photoshop and he made me a bunch of preseason college football magazine covers with the Iowa Hawkeyes billed as National Championship favorites with the inside track to the playoffs, the Heisman trophy, and an undefeated season. I am going to frame them and hang them on my wall now.
The Big LeHAWKski
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Ugh.
Sept 2nd can't get here fast enough.
Sept 2nd can't get here fast enough.
AreWeThereYet
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I think their chances of coming in third in the West are a bit higher than coming in second or fourth. The most likely order being: Wisconsin; Northwestern; Iowa; Nebraska. Wisconsin is the favorite with Northwestern, Iowa, and Nebraska being closely matched. Minnesota, Purdue, and Illinois are at the bottom, fighting for respectability.
