STLhawkeye20
Well-Known Member
...is the confirmation that last season was an absolute hoax and fluke. I really bought in last year and loathed the pundits (like Herbstreit and Cowherd) who were marginalizing our success, but now I really have a hard time disagreeing with them. This team is an utterly average, mediocre group that happened to schedule podunk colleges in the non-conference, caught Wisconsin during one of their worst years in recent memory, and rode the momentum off into the sunset against middle of the pack Big Ten teams. I wanted to think that the MSU game validated the 12-0 season, but it seems wrong to validate a team's success with a close loss. Oh, yeah, and the fact that Alabama absolutely crushed MSU three weeks later (and of course you this thing called the "Stanford game")
Iowa is Iowa is Iowa and Iowa will be Iowa forever, and Cowherd is right. We're a program of posers and we just hope that our mediocre team that we put on the field every year aligns with a favorable schedule, powerhouses that are down, and some lucky bounces. That's it. The stars will align every ten or so years with a Rose Bowl or Orange Bowl or Florida-Bowl-Win-Against-an-SEC-opponent, but it doesn't matter whether we have Peyton Manning or Pablo Sanchez coming back to play quarterback for us. Ferentz will continue to make his $4.5 million per year, send some athletes to the NFL, and continue with his great routine of convincing Iowa fans that he's the answer when his mediocre product happens to work out for whatever reasons/act of God.
And that will be Iowa football until at least 2050 when B Ferentz retires. It's a really depressing and sad thought.
Iowa is Iowa is Iowa and Iowa will be Iowa forever, and Cowherd is right. We're a program of posers and we just hope that our mediocre team that we put on the field every year aligns with a favorable schedule, powerhouses that are down, and some lucky bounces. That's it. The stars will align every ten or so years with a Rose Bowl or Orange Bowl or Florida-Bowl-Win-Against-an-SEC-opponent, but it doesn't matter whether we have Peyton Manning or Pablo Sanchez coming back to play quarterback for us. Ferentz will continue to make his $4.5 million per year, send some athletes to the NFL, and continue with his great routine of convincing Iowa fans that he's the answer when his mediocre product happens to work out for whatever reasons/act of God.
And that will be Iowa football until at least 2050 when B Ferentz retires. It's a really depressing and sad thought.