Will there be a meltdown if we lose to Rutgers?
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NorthKCHawk
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Sure. There was a meltdown when we lost by 3, via a 55 yard field goal, on the road, to the 16th ranked team in the country. This is a game Iowa should win, but a conference road game is a conference road game. The meltdown for me is that it would be sad to know this is a lost season 4 games in. If we lose this one, 7-5 is the ceiling.
HawkIowa44
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Absolutely. The "Fire Kirk" thread will start as soon as the game ends, if that's the result.
Oh I'm sure by others it would. We are only a 2 pt fav I think. I won't be blowing any gaskets if we lose a close game. It'd just be more confirmation that we aren't as good as the media tried saying we'd be. I haven't seen anything yet that tells me we can win road games in the BIG against a decent team. I took nothing from the UMass game. They may as well of played a HS team.
Now if Iowa loses by say 10 plus and looks bad doing it then yeah I would probably pile on with some of the pitchfork holders. That would be inexcusable. It just all depends how the game goes as much as the outcome.
Now if Iowa loses by say 10 plus and looks bad doing it then yeah I would probably pile on with some of the pitchfork holders. That would be inexcusable. It just all depends how the game goes as much as the outcome.
HawkeyeHypnosis
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Whenever media hypes the Hawks they underachieve.
NorthKCHawk
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I don't know that the media has been hyping up Iowa all that much. Preseason Iowa was a marginal just out of the Top 25 school, which was fair given trendlines and returning players. A few pundits suggested Iowa as a dark horse for the playoffs, but that was not widespread. If you added up all the dark horses picked by all the pundits you would have like 40 teams in that mix.
I think most fans and pundits have been realistic. I have seen a lot of 7-9 win season predictions. We would have needed to beat ISU for this season to be special. It was close, but no cigar. If we lose to Rutgers, this is going to be a very mediocre season by KF standards.
Go Hawks!
I think most fans and pundits have been realistic. I have seen a lot of 7-9 win season predictions. We would have needed to beat ISU for this season to be special. It was close, but no cigar. If we lose to Rutgers, this is going to be a very mediocre season by KF standards.
Go Hawks!
JoeyLabasForPresident
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Frankly, I kind of hope so. It will help me to justify the meltdown I will have. It will be alone in my house, but it will be a meltdown nonetheless.
Fryowa
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There's always a meltdown after a loss. Not unique to Iowa fans and not anywhere near the meltdowns by other fan bases.
It's what separates people like us from the "casuals." We are the 1% who bleed in school colors and that's the result. It's fun and harmless unless it migrates into social media attacks, threats, etc.
When I explain the difference between super hardcore college FB fans I do it like this...
It's like Rubik's Cube.
99% of people have picked one up in their lives, played with it for 10 minutes or 30 seconds, and then it gets tossed in the back of the closet till we find it 7 years later and mess with it for another 30 seconds. But then you have the other 1% prodigy kids on YouTube traveling to competitions, who form clubs, practice 6 hours a day, and go absolutely bonkers in the quest for the next world record which currently sits at 3.08 seconds.
That's the difference between us and the rest of the college football fan-world. And I'm good with it. We are the 1%.
Doug Stanhope is one of my favorite comics and he does a bit about how stupid football is when you think about it, how he's a big fan, and even though it's stupid, "it's my stupid." Everyone has to have their own stupid and this is ours.
It's what separates people like us from the "casuals." We are the 1% who bleed in school colors and that's the result. It's fun and harmless unless it migrates into social media attacks, threats, etc.
When I explain the difference between super hardcore college FB fans I do it like this...
It's like Rubik's Cube.
99% of people have picked one up in their lives, played with it for 10 minutes or 30 seconds, and then it gets tossed in the back of the closet till we find it 7 years later and mess with it for another 30 seconds. But then you have the other 1% prodigy kids on YouTube traveling to competitions, who form clubs, practice 6 hours a day, and go absolutely bonkers in the quest for the next world record which currently sits at 3.08 seconds.
That's the difference between us and the rest of the college football fan-world. And I'm good with it. We are the 1%.
Doug Stanhope is one of my favorite comics and he does a bit about how stupid football is when you think about it, how he's a big fan, and even though it's stupid, "it's my stupid." Everyone has to have their own stupid and this is ours.
Seth53
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Lol. Good point.
When it comes to "win melt down" Iowa is strictly minor league.
I'll again reference Ohio State fans....they'll gripe if they don't win by a large enough margin, and trust me, they'll literally nit-pick every single play, finding fault in 90% of them. Major league entitlement on parade.
hawkdrummer1
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Not really. People criticize the offense because it's warranted.
Fryowa
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Side note, isn't it past due to change your user name to HankBrownForPresident?
I know a guy who can make it happen.
