The Outback Bowl is Kirk Ferentz

HawkleberryFinn

HawkleberryFinn

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They should rename it the Kirk Ferentz Bowl. Kirk's been to the Outback more times than Mick Dundee. What do Kirk and The Outback have in common? 1) Require a mediocre record. 2) Exhibit a professional, well-polished front. 3) Have stadiums that host many professional athletes, but never produce league champions.

Kirk should coach the game in the Bloomin Onion outfit...he's earned it. Might as well get a Brian-sized one too while they're at it.
 
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HawkleberryFinn said:
They should rename it the Kirk Ferentz Bowl. Kirk's been to the Outback more times than Mick Dundee. What do Kirk and The Outback have in common? 1) Require a mediocre record. 2) Exhibit a professional, well-polished front. 3) Have stadiums that host many professional athletes, but never produce league champions.

Kirk should coach the game in the Bloomin Onion outfit...he's earned it. Might as well get a Brian-sized one too while they're at it.
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Funny shit. Now the Outback is mediocre too. I bet Husker fans dream of getting to an Outback bowl. Amazing you remain any kind of fan cause we haven't been a part of any national title since the 1950s. It's that or bust right?
 
westender said:
No you whine and bitch and cry. It is who you are. Not only on this site I am sure.
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So this IS Mary! Thank you for being forthright. Shouldn't you be off battling your neighbors for important property rights?...telling them who you are. You don't accept mediocrity in the neighborhood, so why accept it on the field of play?
 
I don't mind a bloomin' onion as an occasional appetizer (with two or three others sharing) but made a huge mistake in Cedar Rapids about ten years ago. My wife and I ate at Outback before flying to Las Vegas. The combination of a pressurized cabin and that bloomin' onion was excruciating. You can do the math from there; you don't need more information than that.
 
Northside Hawk said:
I don't mind a bloomin' onion as an occasional appetizer (with two or three others sharing) but made a huge mistake in Cedar Rapids about ten years ago. My wife and I ate at Outback before flying to Las Vegas. The combination of a pressurized cabin and that bloomin' onion was excruciating. You can do the math from there; you don't need more information than that.
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Sounds like you joined a different kind of mile-high club ;.)
 
HawkleberryFinn said:
So this IS Mary! Thank you for being forthright. Shouldn't you be off battling your neighbors for important property rights?...telling them who you are. You don't accept mediocrity in the neighborhood, so why accept it on the field of play?
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So you're doubling down on the Outback being a mediocre bowl. Are you going to throw out the 2015 season as if it never happened as well? I'd like a B1G championship sometime as well. This just in-they're not easy to win. We've won or shared five in forty years. Not easy, and not where this program usually ends up.
 
HawkleberryFinn said:
So this IS Mary! Thank you for being forthright. Shouldn't you be off battling your neighbors for important property rights?...telling them who you are. You don't accept mediocrity in the neighborhood, so why accept it on the field of play?
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I think at the end of the day it comes back to Gary Barta. And publicly stating that you're going to reward your coach for getting to seven wins presents a bad look. I think a lot of the Kirk complaints on these boards are ultimately complaints about Barta. Many of them well justified, in light of his recent handling of the Dolphin incident. In addition to the bad contracts, lawsuits, etc.
 
Northside Hawk said:
So you're doubling down on the Outback being a mediocre bowl. Are you going to throw out the 2015 season as if it never happened as well? I'd like a B1G championship sometime as well. This just in-they're not easy to win. We've won or shared five in forty years. Not easy, and not where this program usually ends up.
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Yes the Outback is a mediocre bowl...it's better than others, but not where the Hawks should be with the talent they had this year--my qualms are less about the bowl we ended up in and more about actualizing the talent we have. This year we had the combination of a talented team and a weak schedule. There's no way we should've been 8-4 (almost 7-5). 8-4 would be achieving/over-achieving with average talent. That wasn't the case this year. The most glaring and unforgiveable coaching snafu was the misuse of Noah Fant. I agree with you on the Barta deal.
 
HawkleberryFinn said:
Yes the Outback is a mediocre bowl...it's better than others, but not where the Hawks should be with the talent they had this year--my qualms are less about the bowl we ended up in and more about actualizing the talent we have. This year we had the combination of a talented team and a weak schedule. There's no way we should've been 8-4 (almost 7-5). 8-4 would be achieving/over-achieving with average talent. That wasn't the case this year. The most glaring and unforgiveable coaching snafu was the misuse of Noah Fant. I agree with you on the Barta deal.
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Yes, that's been well documented. This year will go down in history as the year of the missed opportunity. Similiar to 1984 when we had the inside track to the Rose Bowl, then finished the conference 0-2-1. We were sentenced to the Freedom Bowl playing in front of a half empty baseball stadium in a down pour. I would settle for a repeat of that freedom bowl against Miss. State.
 
Me too, but Mississippi State looks stout. Not sure where we'll get the offensive firepower without Fant downfield blocking in his eight plays a half.
 
I've reached the point where I'm more interested in the opponent, and what they bring to the table, then I am in what Bowl we're playing. Actually looking forward to Miss. St. game, so regardless of playing in the Outback bowl again I'm looking forward to it. Besides it's one more game I get watch and possibly suffer through.
 
Losing to MSU would pretty much underline our mediocrity I must admit. The teams that have beat them have been pretty good though. It's a nice matchup, and one that is within reach if Iowa can rise to the occasion. I at least hope MSU's offensive limitations and a decent Iowa defense can keep the game within reach and Iowa's offense can find a way to score.

One thing I'm not going to do is spend a month bitching about Iowa getting a "mediocre" bowl game. I think there's a general consensus on here that the last eight years have come up a bit short of what we might have hoped for at the beginning. Disappointments are often part of life. Have a little bit of dignity dealing with them.
 
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