I can accept criticism of KF when he loses games...I do it also. But, some of these posters never relent, even when we win, and say anything positive about KF or the program. We land a nice rb recruit last nite, and the cynics snicker with glee, predicting he will never play or will leave.....these types of perpetually negative fans are poisonous to Iowa football. They have lost all objectivity. They do accept the reality of where Iowa football is.....all the money in the world will not make the state of Iowa produce recruits like Ohio or NJ or Md or Florida....it can help with facilities but cannot change the climate.....but they ignore that reality.
A little fact checking for ya ...
We don't relent because he's still here, doing the same things hes' done for most of the last decade, with the same underachieving, mostly fixable, results. It's inexplicable and inexcusable and deserves to be constantly called out until it is fixed or he leaves.
We are "cynics"
because we are objective. Our cycnicism is a product of the clash between our love for the Hawks and our desire to see them attempt to execute a competent strategy with a competitive effort that matches their expected capabilities against this ill-prepared, mismanaged group that is trotted out between defensive stands, game after game, season after season. Our cynicism is the result of hopes and resonable expectations that are dashed with every avoidable loss to inferior teams, that occur season after season.
Those aren't snickers of glee, they are snickers of futility -- from knowing the disappointing reality that a player like Higdon (or Willies, or Daniels, or Canzerri, or CJB, or so many that have come before them) faces. That reality is the myopic restriction (mismanagement) of player talent, whether it be by scheme or opportunity, due to der KirkFer's ingrained bias against youth / favoring experience over talent -- "what if" they turn it over or miss a blocking assignment, in lieu of "what if" they could score a bunch of TD's.
If you want to talk relentless, these are the relentless truths der KirkFer has demonstrated. Cynicism is the product of merely acknowledging these truths, accepting they will recur, but constantly being asked to maintain faith that all is well, that he will do things differently or achieve improved results because he now has a 4* (actually, 3*) RB, when he hasn't done it with his previous 4* players.
