The 5 Sinkingest Ships In Sports

[HawkPrdatr40]

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[h=2]3) Iowa Hawkeyes[/h]2010 was the last year the Hawkeyes won 10 or more games. Since then, it’s been all they can do to break even in conference play and in 2012 they couldn’t even manage that, stumbling to a 4-8 record and missing out on a bowl appearance for the first time since 2000.
The 2014 iteration of the Iowa Hawkeyes wasn’t especially talented, but an extremely favorable draw from the Big Ten East made a 4-4 record in conference play difficult to stomach.
Unlike the other names on this list, the Hawkeyes have been adrift at sea for years. But instead of throwing Iowa fans a life raft, athletics director Gary Barta is circling the survivors in his yacht while cackling like a cartoon villain and dumping piles of cash on top of Kirk Ferentz.

 

[ColoradoHAWKEYE]

Five! That is in ALL sports....pro AND college!

Maybe it IS as bad as most of us think...and at the very least, it shows we Hawk fans (the majority of the ones I know anyhow) are not alone in our "sinking" feeling...others (outsiders, other fan bases, peeps who are not even football fans) are aware of our ineptitude.

As the article recalls the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which did have some survivors... Can we too be saved?

 

[hawkdrummer1]

The whole world's watching! .... The whole world's watching! .... The whole world's watching!

 

[83Hawk]

2012 wasn't the first bowl game they missed since 2000. Just sayin'.

 

[StanziUSA]

Ouch ouch ouch

 

[Hawknick]

I nominate 247 sports as well the 5 worst web sites on the internet, so there.

 

[WinOneThisCentury]

I could understand this much better if we were to lose to Iowa State every other year, as that is a barometer of how low your program is, but...hey, wait a minute, we have lost to Iowa State every other year for the past 4 years.

Ok...I'm going on record, the game in Ames this year may be the most important of the Ferentz era. If anything can move the "loyalty sentiment" away from the Captain Kirk, well...it's losing year after year to one of the worst historical football programs in college football. It's your cross state rival KF...you should care.

 

[HawkeyeMHA]

Wowsers. It's worse than I thought

 

[NEIChawk]

Good God, to be thrown in there w/the Braves, or even the 49'ers.....no that's bad....

 

[STILLBUSTER]

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3) Iowa Hawkeyes

2010 was the last year the Hawkeyes won 10 or more games. Since then, it’s been all they can do to break even in conference play and in 2012 they couldn’t even manage that, stumbling to a 4-8 record and missing out on a bowl appearance for the first time since 2000.
The 2014 iteration of the Iowa Hawkeyes wasn’t especially talented, but an extremely favorable draw from the Big Ten East made a 4-4 record in conference play difficult to stomach.
Unlike the other names on this list, the Hawkeyes have been adrift at sea for years. But instead of throwing Iowa fans a life raft, athletics director Gary Barta is circling the survivors in his yacht while cackling like a cartoon villain and dumping piles of cash on top of Kirk Ferentz.

This is both a funny and frighteningly true analogy. I'll add to it ...

and derKirkFer is standing on the deck, next to those rafts, refusing to release them, because he's convinced that the water isn't that deep, thrashing about will stave off the sharks and we can swim back to the boat. He fails to realize that circling us only stirs up larger waves that will eventually overtake us in a horrific, [ * glurb, hack, cough * ] slow [ * gulp, glurb, cough * ] drow-erg-ninggh ...

"That's boating."

 

[1hawkeye1]

But 7-5 this coming season, and "All is Well!, Hurrah!"

Never mind getting destroyed in a bowl game. We had a good season......ain't that right, Dolph?

 

[HaydenHawk56]

"I'll never let go Kirk."

 

[HawkeyeMHA]

BUT....for our boat to sink, it means at one time it did actually float! Some boats have never got their dingy (love that word) off the bottom of the pond. See catsup and mustard, who also beats us regularly now. Oh never mind. We're ****ed

 

[MiniMoeHawk]

I could understand this much better if we were to lose to Iowa State every other year, as that is a barometer of how low your program is, but...hey, wait a minute, we have lost to Iowa State every other year for the past 4 years.

Ok...I'm going on record, the game in Ames this year may be the most important of the Ferentz era. If anything can move the "loyalty sentiment" away from the Captain Kirk, well...it's losing year after year to one of the worst historical football programs in college football. It's your cross state rival KF...you should care.

I was trying to express the importance of beating ISU in the Hoiberg thread. Some people just don't understand why we talk about the clowns on here.

 

[atxhawk]

I feel about football the same way I felt about basketball during the last couple years of Alfraud, and all through the Lickliter mistake. Well, that's not entirely true. During that era, if Iowa happened to be on TV, I was home, and there was nothing good on TV, I'd watch. I'll still watch the games this year, but I won't plan my Saturday around it.

 

[NEIChawk]

 

[SteveGarvey]

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3) Iowa Hawkeyes

2010 was the last year the Hawkeyes won 10 or more games. Since then, it’s been all they can do to break even in conference play and in 2012 they couldn’t even manage that, stumbling to a 4-8 record and missing out on a bowl appearance for the first time since 2000.
The 2014 iteration of the Iowa Hawkeyes wasn’t especially talented, but an extremely favorable draw from the Big Ten East made a 4-4 record in conference play difficult to stomach.
Unlike the other names on this list, the Hawkeyes have been adrift at sea for years. But instead of throwing Iowa fans a life raft, athletics director Gary Barta is circling the survivors in his yacht while cackling like a cartoon villain and dumping piles of cash on top of Kirk Ferentz.

The threshold for what a sinking ship is has really gotten lower if a team that's been to two January bowl games in a row is one. A disappointing team sure; a sinking ship not so much.

 

[MiniMoeHawk]

The threshold for what a sinking ship is has really gotten lower if a team that's been to two January bowl games in a row is one. A disappointing team sure; a sinking ship not so much.

The ship has already been sinking for a while. Iowa's season this year is comparable to the band still playing on the titanic. Everyone knows what is about to happen at the end.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

The ship has already been sinking for a while. Iowa's season this year is comparable to the band still playing on the titanic. Everyone knows what is about to happen at the end.

I didn't read the article. Did it mention that our coaches son was promoted to run game coordinator to plug the hole in our sinking ship?

 

[herkish]

I envision kirkfer sliming away on a raft built for 20 w/ just him in it. Kirk snorting at wailing mothers trapped on the sinking ship as he descends to the water..."that's life".