JonDMiller
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I am mildly surprised by this...but given Iowa's history, perhaps it's best.
I am mildly surprised by this...but given Iowa's history, perhaps it's best.
Three Mags Out, Iowa Not in Top 25
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Somewhat surprised, I thought that these magazines tried to look smart by putting a large emphasis on strength of schedule and using that to help predict regular season records.
If they looked at Iowa's schedule and thought they wouldn't have a terrific record, that says this is a bad team. I have a tough time imagining how any Iowa team of the past 25 years wouldn't have a very good record against this ridiculously easy schedule. No OSU, MI, MSU or PSU and WI and NE at home with a joke preseason schedule and known BIG cupcakes.
It should be a season with a great record (not necessarily a great team). Go Hawks!
If they looked at Iowa's schedule and thought they wouldn't have a terrific record, that says this is a bad team. I have a tough time imagining how any Iowa team of the past 25 years wouldn't have a very good record against this ridiculously easy schedule. No OSU, MI, MSU or PSU and WI and NE at home with a joke preseason schedule and known BIG cupcakes.
It should be a season with a great record (not necessarily a great team). Go Hawks!
JonDMiller
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Magazine items like this are typically written by a local beat writer who is paid to put together the preview...then the rankings are put together by the magazine staff, not the beat writers.
HawkeyeMHA
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Right where we need to be based on our history of thinking we are good pre season. We don't play well as fat cats. dog crap is what comes from pre season rankings. Dog crap
Like.
Pre-season polls are only worth fussing about if you are one of the handful of teams with legit championship hopes, otherwise these fall solidly under the "for entertainment purposes only" (kinda like this site!)
okeefe4prez
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I used to sport a Predator with choice mags:
Sorry, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw "mags" because I haven't bought a magazine in quite some time. It must be rough on those publishers bince sales are probably dropping every year, so they just break out the bash Iowa method of trying to sell copies. I ain't falling for it.
Sorry, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw "mags" because I haven't bought a magazine in quite some time. It must be rough on those publishers bince sales are probably dropping every year, so they just break out the bash Iowa method of trying to sell copies. I ain't falling for it.
LawVHawk
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I used to sport a Predator with choice mags:
Sorry, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw "mags" because I haven't bought a magazine in quite some time. It must be rough on those publishers bince sales are probably dropping every year, so they just break out the bash Iowa method of trying to sell copies. I ain't falling for it.
But did you fall off your Predator with choice mags?
okeefe4prez
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My Predator had two sets of front pegs and one set of rear pegs. A guy with three sets of pegs on his bike never fell off, bud. I used to leave it sitting on the side of my garage and one night someone stole it. One of the three worst days of my life. It was my dad's fault because he had this old Pontiac parked in our garage and it took up like 2/3rds of the garage and then my mom parked her car in there, too, so there was no room for my bike. I really miss that thing. Good luck finding such a choice ride today.
I just thought of my favorite day riding it. There were some choice trails with nice jumps cut out in the woods adjacent to the greenbelt. But there was one path that ended with an 8 foot drop into a crick. Some new kid came one day and was trying to showboat (he didn't have a Predator so he was immediately not cool with my posse). He showboated a few times (but managed to get virtually no air). Then, he gets a full head of steam and jumps it right off the path that went into the crick. He was all yelling like he broke his arm or something so we all bounced and left him there. When school started a few weeks later he was a new kid and he had his arm in a cast. He never did fit in and his parents took him out of public school for Catholic school after one semester. What a delta bravo.
OUTofTOWNHAWK
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First a bike and now the train. Dont worry OK4prez things will pick up for you.
okeefe4prez
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Nowhere to go but up is how I like it this time of year. As fun as it is to have "respect" and have expectations I savor it more as a fan when they can go in with a chip on their shoulders. Everyone from Ferentz to the 2nd string long snapper. I'd rather be the Roger Dangerfield of college football then be Texas, OU or any other school with high expectations year in and year out and usually come up short.
okeefe4prez
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Who is Roger Dangerfield? Is he related to Rodney Dangerfield?
LG210
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It's kind of like Chris and Cliff Paul....
OUTofTOWNHAWK
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I bet when you were in 6th grade, you were rocking one of these:
Is that what ma delivers food on?
STILLBUSTER
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Unabashed bias and utter nonsense!
STILLBUSTER
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Funny stories, man. Nothin like jumpin ina crick -- funniest of all.
