Why is it so hard to say "We lost today"?
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DuffMan
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That's fine, but the team with the best talent doesn't always win.
ColoradoHAWKEYE
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It's not hard to say...because we were prepped for it by last week's game.
tm3308
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Well, not everybody. I'm dissappointed because I love this team. But the same issues cropped up this week that were there last week (wide open receivers because of the matchup between the ball-control spread vs. bend but don't break), and Northwestern executed better than Indiana.
I got roasted all week for saying that, because we won last week. But our defensive scheme doesn't match up with this kind of offense.
There's not much difference between winning and losing, except for how the outside world treats you. And there wasn't much difference between our play from last week and our play this week. We just got a break last week, and we didn't this week. But it's frustrating that we rely on how the breaks go when we're playing teams like NW and IU that are vastly inferior talent-wise.
Because we had the game in hand at 17-7 with the ball driving at midfield then a dumb play cost us. The game should have been over at that point. Yes, NU made the plays on those drives but they shouldn't have been in the situation to do so. Thats why.
If we were behind the whole game because NU handled us then yes I can say "they beat us".
Hawkfromnorwalk
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The sad thing is at 17-7 I never once thought we were in good shape. And I was correct in thinking that...
BradBanks02
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We only lost because Stanzi got hurt, we'll destroy them next year!
bighawkeyedaddy
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I have lost things in my life, but when I can look back and see that I lost several things due to making the same poor decisions over and over, eventually I made the decision that if I changed those things, the result would be better. This isn't one loss of this type where the other team just outplayed us, or we didn't get the breaks. Hell, it's not even a pattern anymore. It's the Iowa way. Play down to the level of your competition, and hope that we stop them on the last play of the game or score on the last play of the game, and we win. This is consistently happening against teams that do not have the talent to play with us unless we let them.
Except it is the same crap with this staff anytime we face a lesser foe. They don't go after the other teams weaknesses at all...it is a joke how BAD thess coaches are at making in game adjustments.
ThunderHawk
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The coaching philosophies are what's pathetic. As is being an apologist for the glaring deficiencies.
ColoradoHAWKEYE
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and as disappointing as this loss is, I still stand by the fact when you've got youth and unmatched freshman LB's that you still need to stay with your basic D gameplan. We don't have the db talent to play more tight and still compensate. I wish we did. I think our D is designed for certain O's. I certainly think that we were unprepared physically to be gasping for oxygen as bad as we were, even before the final two drives.
The bottom line is we had preseason aspirations based on paper facts. This team has had some big question marks all season, especially at O line and LB's, we were exposed for who we have out there. It's not like the opposing coaches don't see that. The D plays very well the first 3 quarters of our games, then physical fitness takes over and they are not quite as sharp (due to conditioning?) in the 4th, as again evidenced by today's game. Further, it is our O's apathy and lackluster performance that didnot complete this game that led to our D's exploitation.
Hawkfromnorwalk
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No because expectations next year won't be anywhere near this years. I would be very happy with an 8 win season next year.
Yes, but I think we would be doing cartwheels over an 8-4 season next year.
ColoradoHAWKEYE
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I know, I will learn to keep my own wishes and projections in check.
