Time to get the Northwestern monkey off our backs

[TMel]

I know that I'm preaching to the choir here but, we need to start laying the wood to Northwestern again- no one will ever take us seriously if we can't regularly beat the Northwesterns of the world. Granted they are not the same team they were in the Fry era, but come on. I realize that we have a tendency to play up or down to our competition but to constantly be losing to Northwestern even in a very good year like last year will prevent Iowa from being considered in the top tier of the conference. Most of us probably consider Iowa as on par with OSU and PSU, I do- but the perception out in the rest of the football world will use losses to teams like Northwestern against us. OSU almost never loses to them, PSU usually beats them pretty easily. My argument is that we have to start doing the same. My goal is not to denigrate Northwestern because they are a vastly superior team compared to 20 years ago but they are not at at our level- or are they?

 

[DexterMorgan]

We were well on our way to a blowout last year before....well you know.

 

[GO4ROZS]

Thanks a lot. I am now completely out of breath.

 

[TMel]

Sorry, a little wordy

 

[IATrainMaster101]

Put a brick on the throttle and step outside of the car.

 

[blkngldFRO]

You should change your thread title to

time to get the "not living up to the preseason hype" monkey off our back

That way it includes all the monkeys on Iowa's back.

 

[Travisam]

Good to see ya back DOCB!

 

[whammer33024]

pretty strong 3rd post