The Hawks still need more speed and exposiveness

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uihawk82

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Not a surprise to most of us but the receivers couldnt consistently get open, our front seven looked slow in comparison to Stanford's (just looking at the speed they pick them up and put them down), their front 7 looked quick and explosive compared to our offensive line.

I love watching this team but they had trouble protecting and moving the ball the last two games.

I hope the young receivers have some great speed and moves, both lines get back to their explosive ways.

I think the hawks will be really good again next year but they need the speed to compete with the top dogs.
 
Fact of the matter is, the level of players we are recruiting have a ceiling that is only so high. Doesn't matter how much they lift, or run, etc. They're going to get dominated by better recruits that also work hard. For some reason a lot of people think our 2 and 3 star recruits are the only ones that work hard, and we can just outwork everyone, not the case. Until we start recruiting much better, especially skill players, then we'll see the same thing when we play outside our conference.
 
But I would think we would also try to recruit more speed and just great athletes and coach up their football skills
 
Speed. You either have it or you don't. We don't. Especially not at WR and LB.

Its a glaring, fatal deficiency. Behold the result
 
The game of football has changed tremendously. ...speed, speed, and more speed on both sides of the ball
 
I can't figure out why so many players suddenly lose their fundamental football skills of tackling and blocking in the second most important game of the year.
 
Speed at receiver is important but if they drop passes and the line doesn't block for the quarterback, it doesn't matter as much as you might think.
 
glidinghawk said:
I can't figure out why so many players suddenly lose their fundamental football skills of tackling and blocking in the second most important game of the year.
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Simple, they're outclassed. Don't have the athletic ability to make the plays against superior athletes. This looked much like the Tennessee game last year. Worse actually.
 
It would be a lot easier to secure those speedy talented skill players if the Hawkeye State produced a few every year. Unfortunately, it doesn't.
 
Im gonna disagree...just a little. We did not have it today, bad bowl prep bad game plan. Stanford is not that much better than us, hell NW took them apart.
 
It's hilarious how people think it's so easy to recruit 4/5 star kids. If you aren't producing many in your state then it's not so easy to get them to come to Iowa.
 
We could use a little more at WR, but I don't think we are that far off elsewhere.

The Oline struggled in a number if games, especially at the Tackle position. We couldn't protect CJ at all, and inexplicably didn't try hardly any screens. Oline was the weakest link most of the year, as expected. Improvement and development there will pay huge dividends next year.

Like most games, it really came down to a few plays, in this game they just happened to be HUGE plays, all for scores...

1) LB lost footing on first play to McCaffrey, if Fisher keeps his feet, it's about a 10 yard gain

2) Pick 6 (this was the ballgame/landslide). Even a FG there changes a lot, a touchdown makes it 14-7.

3) punt return. Just a freak athlete made an unbelievable play.

4) 2 long TD passes, perfect passes, great playcalls, executed perfectly.

28-35 point differential in basically 5 plays. We lost by 29.

I still say if we score instead of the pick 6, while I don't believe we win, I think it's a ballgame. That just sucked the life out of the team, and CJ.

We got whooped. Playcalling and tackling was bad.
 
IAHAWK1982 said:
It's hilarious how people think it's so easy to recruit 4/5 star kids. If you aren't producing many in your state then it's not so easy to get them to come to Iowa.
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Some folks will never accept the reality of it. While I would like to see a little uptick in recruiting, and do believe the staff has underperformed a little in this area, Iowa will never, and I mean never, be a consistent 10-15 ranked recruiting program. We may occasionally catch a good "class". We have to try get a few "core" higher level recruits at key positions and then find "good fit" guys to develop around them.

It'll be a disagreement on this board for as long as it exists.

With a solid '16 year, '17 class could be one of those rare high level ones. I hope we can find a QB, or if we have one now.
 
HawkeyeWalker said:
Some folks will never accept the reality of it. While I would like to see a little uptick in recruiting, and do believe the staff has underperformed a little in this area, Iowa will never, and I mean never, be a consistent 10-15 ranked recruiting program. We may occasionally catch a good "class". We have to try get a few "core" higher level recruits at key positions and then find "good fit" guys to develop around them.

It'll be a disagreement on this board for as long as it exists.

With a solid '16 year, '17 class could be one of those rare high level ones. I hope we can find a QB, or if we have one now.
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Then we should stop paying millions of dollars to a staff and program that can't be any better than a second-tier competitor and invest in sports that have that potential and some possibility for growth, like M/W basketball and W VB. But don't spend all of this money and then cry poverty when it comes to winning football games. If you want moral victories, join the Sun Belt.
 
HawkeyeWalker said:
Some folks will never accept the reality of it. While I would like to see a little uptick in recruiting, and do believe the staff has underperformed a little in this area, Iowa will never, and I mean never, be a consistent 10-15 ranked recruiting program. We may occasionally catch a good "class". We have to try get a few "core" higher level recruits at key positions and then find "good fit" guys to develop around them.

It'll be a disagreement on this board for as long as it exists.

With a solid '16 year, '17 class could be one of those rare high level ones. I hope we can find a QB, or if we have one now.
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Then stop paying top $ to a coach that can't recruit, or go out and give the $ to a guy that can recruit. Recruiting is where it all starts, and it's not like KF makes up for it with good game day coaching either. A top 10-15 ranked recruiting program is a long way from where we're at. We are in the bottom 3 of the conference with the class of 2016. That is unacceptable, period. In no way, shape, or form is that solid recruiting as you claim.
 
IAHAWK1982 said:
It's hilarious how people think it's so easy to recruit 4/5 star kids. If you aren't producing many in your state then it's not so easy to get them to come to Iowa.
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Nobody said it was easy! That's why we're paying top $ to our coach. He's proven he can't do it, so get someone that can, or he needs to get someone on his staff that can.
 
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