What would you consider the "Modern Era" of College Football and Basketball today?

[HaydenHawk56]

I got thinking about this. It is probably a pretty popular opinion that the 1985 team was the greatest team of the Modern Era for Iowa football. Then, probably 2002.

For Iowa basketball, it is arguably the Lute Olson Final Four team of 1980 or the Mr. Davis 1987 Elite 8 team.

Do you consider the 80s or 90s the Modern Era? Or do you feel it is the 2000s and on?

 

[uihawk82]

I would say the modern era in football is still when they went from single platoon to double platoon football. Schemes etc have changed but the numbers of players increased at that point. You still see much the same plays etc but now more shotgun, etc. But really it is about the same. Hayden Fry in the early sixties had SMU throwing 50+ passes a game a few black players like the great Jerry Levias.

I might also say that not long after double platoon football came about the nearly full integration of black/african american players and other non-white players in most of college football started the modern era.

 

[uihawk82]

In basketball the shot clock and 3 pt shot started the modern era.

 

[Northside Hawk]

JBo has been at Iowa through several eras.

Heck, he played when Peter Jok was still here.

 

[Seth53]

For BB, 1966 is when the game transitioned out of the dark ages.

Thank you Texas Western

 

[Seth53]

JBo has been at Iowa through several eras.

Heck, he played when Peter Jok was still here.

Rumor has it he at one time shared a locker with Ronnie Lester.

 

[HuckFinn]

Rumor has it he at one time shared a locker with Ronnie Lester.

Damn. I had forgotten about that.

 

[okeefe4prez]

In roughly 10 years the modern era will be the era when games were recorded in HD. Anything prior to that will not be the modern era. The games recorded in non-HD already look like they were filmed with a potato and another decade of watching 4K TV is going to render people unable to watch footage from pre 2007 or so.

 

[kicker22]

Football is hard for me to say, but nationally I'd say the modern era began when Nebby joined the Big 10. They were relevant in the Big 12 and are as about as irrelevant now as you can get so I'd say the modern era started shortly after they won their last NC and left the Big 12.

Basketball- I'd honestly say the the modern era the youth, high school, college, and pro levels began when Steph Curry's shooting changed the way the game is played. We could easily go shot clock era or the three point era on a timeline, but IMO the games changed just as much when Steph put the dagger in the midrange game and everyone started shooting behind the perimeter.

 

[99topdawg]

JBo has been at Iowa through several eras.

Heck, he played when Peter Jok was still here.

He'd be gone if it wasn't for NIL that he was so vocal about. Had to see it through. That, and the fact that he got a 6-figure sponsorship deal from AARP.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

Good perspectives in this thread. I was wondering with this same question how removed from the modern era, or if the modern era would still include the successes of the 80s for Iowa? Just to further nail down what type of program Iowa is with the modern times.

I guess, even without the 80s, it probably still feels overall good, but not great.

 

[trj]

shot clock

Anyone under the age of 35 google "4 corners" and yes college basketball was played like that before the shot clock.

1983

Football is a lot harder so I will stick with the B1G. The year Hayden and Mike White(Illinois) decided in order to compete with Michigan and OSU you needed to chuck the football all over the field, 30+ times if it was necessary to win games.

 

[NCHawker]

In roughly 10 years the modern era will be the era when games were recorded in HD. Anything prior to that will not be the modern era. The games recorded in non-HD already look like they were filmed with a potato and another decade of watching 4K TV is going to render people unable to watch footage from pre 2007 or so.

But the big shoulder pads were awesome.

 

[HuckFinn]

I liked the single bar face guards

 

[Fryowa]

shot clock

Anyone under the age of 35 google "4 corners" and yes college basketball was played like that before the shot clock.

1983

Football is a lot harder so I will stick with the B1G. The year Hayden and Mike White(Illinois) decided in order to compete with Michigan and OSU you needed to chuck the football all over the field, 30+ times if it was necessary to win games.

I think the 3 point line had a bigger impact overall. If I had to pick a modern era cutoff, it'd be that.

 

[okeefe4prez]

shot clock

Anyone under the age of 35 google "4 corners" and yes college basketball was played like that before the shot clock.

1983

Football is a lot harder so I will stick with the B1G. The year Hayden and Mike White(Illinois) decided in order to compete with Michigan and OSU you needed to chuck the football all over the field, 30+ times if it was necessary to win games.

Pat Dye at Auburn also broke a long run of UGA/Bama dominance in the same era. Fry, White and Dye are all legendary.

 

[guffus]

1984 was also the year the NCAA tourney expanded to 64 teams. But I would say it all started when Magic Johnson and Larry Bird played in the NCAA NCG in 1979.

I remember in 1979 having to watch the Iowa-MSU game on the Iowa PBS station. The sport just blew up after that. Soon all of Iowa's basketball's games were on commercial TV.

So I am going with 1979 for basketball.

 

[guffus]

For football I would go with 1980, the year Div 1 was split into 1-A and 1-AA. Soon after in 1984, the Supreme Court said the NCAA can't negotiate everybody's TV contracts and TV rights belonged to each school themselves. This touched off conference realignment that eventually grew the SEC to 16 teams and the Big Ten to 14.