Weisman 2014 experiment

[guffus]

There was a concious effort by the Iowa coaching staff to limit Weisman's carries early in the year so that he would be healthy for the big games down the stretch. So how did that work out? Here are the numbers.

Week-opponent-#carries-yards-TD

1 UNI 10 34 1 W
2 BALL 6 13 0 W
3 ISU 16 49 1 L
4 @PITT 22 88 2 W
5 @PUR 24 76 2 W
6 BYE WEEK
7 IND 25 89 2 W
8 @MD 10 78 2 L
9 BYE WEEK
10 NW 20 94 3 W
11 @MINN 14 21 1 L
12 @ILL 23 134 0 W
13 WIS 12 44 0 L
14 NEB 24 82 0 L

Bottom line, Weisman was healthy all year but Iowa went 1-3 down the stretch. In fact he did not have much impact in Iowa's last 4 games.

Conclusion. It was not worth saving Weisman for the end of the season. He should have been used more early when Iowa's offense was out of sync against "easy" opponents and moved more to canzeri and Wadley later.

end result may have been 8-4 instead of 7-5.

 

[Cory]

At zero point should MW ever been the featured tailback in a Division 1 program. Great kid and hard worker from what everyone says but there isn't another program in D1 that would have kept him at tailback. Just another failure by a coaching staff that clearly has no idea how to or doesn't care to win.

MW should have been moved back to FB and only used at tailback in short yardage situations.

 

[HawkPrdatr40]

At zero point should MW ever been the featured tailback in a Division 1 program. Great kid and hard worker from what everyone says but there isn't another program in D1 that would have kept him at tailback. Just another failure by a coaching staff that clearly has no idea how to or doesn't care to win.

MW should have been moved back to FB and only used at tailback in short yardage situations.

Especially at this level.. I understand the need in 2012, but 2013 and 2014 season make absolutely no sense..

 

[PCHawk]

What a hilarious idea by the coaching staff. "We need to game plan the whole first half of the season around saving Weisman for the end of the year." So not only do they think Weisman is a good choice at runningback, they think he is so important to the offense he can't be wasted on the crappy early teams?

 

[BILLBUCKNER]

At zero point should MW ever been the featured tailback in a Division 1 program. Great kid and hard worker from what everyone says but there isn't another program in D1 that would have kept him at tailback. Just another failure by a coaching staff that clearly has no idea how to or doesn't care to win.

MW should have been moved back to FB and only used at tailback in short yardage situations.

All great points.. The real odd thing about his situation vs CJ. MW got his opportunity at TB because injury wiped out the position and did well. CJ played only because of injury. But very little after that. Meanwhile MW becomes a fixed starter for the rest of his career at tb.

 

[1hawkeye1]

I'm convinced that MW was KF's left middle finger to Hawkeyenation. JR was his right.

 

[Caddy]

I'm convinced that MW was KF's left middle finger to Hawkeyenation. JR was his right.

This^. At no other program in the nation would MW even sniff a carry at rb, and checkdown charlie would have been benched before big ten play. Not here though. They're the pets of the clueless one we call our coach.

 

[Caddy]

There was a concious effort by the Iowa coaching staff to limit Weisman's carries early in the year so that he would be healthy for the big games down the stretch. So how did that work out? Here are the numbers.

Week-opponent-#carries-yards-TD

1 UNI 10 34 1 W
2 BALL 6 13 0 W
3 ISU 16 49 1 L
4 @PITT 22 88 2 W
5 @PUR 24 76 2 W
6 BYE WEEK
7 IND 25 89 2 W
8 @MD 10 78 2 L
9 BYE WEEK
10 NW 20 94 3 W
11 @MINN 14 21 1 L
12 @ILL 23 134 0 W
13 WIS 12 44 0 L
14 NEB 24 82 0 L

Bottom line, Weisman was healthy all year but Iowa went 1-3 down the stretch. In fact he did not have much impact in Iowa's last 4 games.

Conclusion. It was not worth saving Weisman for the end of the season. He should have been used more early when Iowa's offense was out of sync against "easy" opponents and moved more to canzeri and Wadley later.

end result may have been 8-4 instead of 7-5.

Here's a crazy idea, how about starting the season playing an actual rb at rb instead of a slow fb? MW was completely ineffective the entire year because he isn't a rb.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

I'm convinced that MW was KF's left middle finger to Hawkeyenation. JR was his right.

This season was about kfootball making damn sure every fan knows that he, and he alone, dictates what happens within this program. I read an article after the kNU collapse in which JR and MW were quoted and they sounded like virtual clones of kfootball. They said things like "this season is on us" and "we deserve our record because that is how we performed on the field", etc, etc. My reactions were that two of the main reasons our season unfolded the way it did were directing the backlash away from kfootball to the players. While the players do play the game, kfootball decides who plays. Neither were the best at their position.

 

[cincyhawk]

What a hilarious idea by the coaching staff. "We need to game plan the whole first half of the season around saving Weisman for the end of the year." So not only do they think Weisman is a good choice at runningback, they think he is so important to the offense he can't be wasted on the crappy early teams?

Who else is going to score points on this team? Not the QB.

 

[Cory]

The Rudock, Weisman, Lowdermilk, and Matt Vandenberg(sp?) playing over clearly better players is the reason I will drop my season tickets after going for 13 straight years. The past years of personnel decisions were head scratchers but I always gave KF the benefit of the doubt.

I truly believe KF really doesn't give a **** if he wins unless he plays "his guys." Done with this egomaniac. Hope I'm wrong and he proves me wrong but there is about a 10% chance of that ever happening.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

The Rudock, Weisman, Lowdermilk, and Matt Vandenberg(sp?) playing over clearly better players is the reason I will drop my season tickets after going for 13 straight years. The past years of personnel decisions were head scratchers but I always gave KF the benefit of the doubt.

I truly believe KF really doesn't give a **** if he wins unless he plays "his guys." Done with this egomaniac. Hope I'm wrong and he proves me wrong but there is about a 10% chance of that ever happening.

kfootball has a system. his system will spit out 6 or 7 wins a season +/- 1. kfootball plays the players that will stick to his system and not take chances. Taking chances removes the predictability kfootball needs to micromanage. kfootball does not perform well in the midst of chaos, i.e. bad in game decisions, strategies and clock management. CJ, Willies and others couldn't stay on s.c.r.i.p.t and found themselves watching.