What Have We Learned
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McNutt7gets6
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We've learned that we would make a very, very, very good FCS team.
tksirius
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And coaches can do the same. And some coaches can just have absolutely no clue how to manage games toward the end of quarters.
HaydenHawk56
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okeefe4prez
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Yeah, not a big deal, IMHO. If you step back, you realize that when Iowa has a great record, they usually aren't that good and when Iowa has a bad record they usually aren't that bad. Last year we got really lucky with one fumble versus Wisconsin, two long runs versus Nebraska and a handful of other plays. Iowa's luck comes in spurts and being ranked going into the season is usually the kiss of death.
It's not a big deal...until you count up all the money Iowa just spent on contract extensions that can't be bought out...then it becomes a really, really big deal.
okeefe4prez
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That, good sir, is why I got rid of my season tickets. The stars aligned last year and it was great, but I've seen this enough times that I am basically like a woman with battered wife syndrome and have learned not to take the bait. Sure, he might stop drinking and beating me up for a year or so, but eventually he will revert to his old ways. I'm done being emotionally invested. Wasn't even butthurt when the D collapsed against MSU last year or Christian McCaffery destroyed us. I've just come to expect that sort of abuse.
HaydenHawk56
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If it is not a lower division team that gets us. If it is not the clowns who gets us. If it not Ohio St or XYZ blue blood who gets us. Somehow, someway, Iowa will find a way to lose when things matter the most.
SpecialKHawk
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We learned that we are just not that good. We had a nice little run that ran out of gas and now we are back to 6-6. No one in the program came back with the mindset of competing and getting better. Our coach manages games poorly something we have known for a while.
Garandx
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When I die, I want the Iowa football team to lower me in to my grave so they can let me down one last time.
SpiderRico
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I quit being emotionally invested after 2010 happened. No longer do I get upset with a loss...I now just chuckle because I've seen how the movie ends way too often. It's like Sonny and Cher singing "I've got you babe" over and over again. Every 5-6 years or so we get a 2015-type year and I can enjoy it for what it's worth. Simply a diversion...nothing more and nothing less...
IlpYGwoeBk
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It's not as good as everyone hoped before today or as bad as they think after today. They compared this game to the James Madison/Virginia Tech game in the broadcast. Virginia Tech went on to win the next 11 games that year and went to the Orange Bowl.
Not saying we're going back to the Rose Bowl, but I do not believe we are a 6-6 team.
Not saying we're going back to the Rose Bowl, but I do not believe we are a 6-6 team.
IlpYGwoeBk
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Actually, you know what, after reading this article that a Virginia Tech writer wrote after that game, I'm convinced we will have a great season, it's what always happens after highly ranked teams with "unappreciated head coaches with great career records" lose to FCS teams!
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Before I go any further, I bring you a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel that appears to represent the rest of this season. The week after that loss to Appalachian State, Michigan looked even worse getting blown out by Oregon, 39-7. But the Wolverines regained their footing once Big Ten season arrived.
That 0-2 start was followed by eight consecutive wins, and Michigan was even in contention for the Big Ten title before losing its last two games to Wisconsin and Ohio State. The season actually ended on a memorable note, with Lloyd Carr being carried off the field into retirement after a 39-7 win over Tim Tebow-led Florida in the Capital One Bowl.
Considering the state of the ACC, I think the Hokies are entirely capable of having the same kind of turnaround. I actually believe this year's Virginia Tech team is eerily similar to those 2007 Wolverines.
Michigan had talked convincingly about a national championship all offseason with the return of battle tested playmakers at the skill positions (senior quarterback Chad Henne, senior running back Mike Hart, junior wide receiver Mario Manningham). Virginia Tech made its goals for the season known early and often with offensive weapons like Tyrod Taylor, the Ryan Williams-Darren Evans duo and Jarrett Boykin back in the fold.
Both were led by occasionally unappreciated head coaches with great career records, who also had a tendency to irk fans with their conservative play-calling and penchant for not winning "the big one" enough. With Michigan it was Lloyd Carr. Here in Blacksburg, it is Frank Beamer.
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Before I go any further, I bring you a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel that appears to represent the rest of this season. The week after that loss to Appalachian State, Michigan looked even worse getting blown out by Oregon, 39-7. But the Wolverines regained their footing once Big Ten season arrived.
That 0-2 start was followed by eight consecutive wins, and Michigan was even in contention for the Big Ten title before losing its last two games to Wisconsin and Ohio State. The season actually ended on a memorable note, with Lloyd Carr being carried off the field into retirement after a 39-7 win over Tim Tebow-led Florida in the Capital One Bowl.
Considering the state of the ACC, I think the Hokies are entirely capable of having the same kind of turnaround. I actually believe this year's Virginia Tech team is eerily similar to those 2007 Wolverines.
Michigan had talked convincingly about a national championship all offseason with the return of battle tested playmakers at the skill positions (senior quarterback Chad Henne, senior running back Mike Hart, junior wide receiver Mario Manningham). Virginia Tech made its goals for the season known early and often with offensive weapons like Tyrod Taylor, the Ryan Williams-Darren Evans duo and Jarrett Boykin back in the fold.
Both were led by occasionally unappreciated head coaches with great career records, who also had a tendency to irk fans with their conservative play-calling and penchant for not winning "the big one" enough. With Michigan it was Lloyd Carr. Here in Blacksburg, it is Frank Beamer.
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OUTofTOWNHAWK
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Thought you gave up your tickets to order that wife online.
