Will we ever get to the Rose Bowl under the current staff?

I'm sorry, HobbieHawk.

Our coach went 8-0 in conference in 2002 and someone asks if we think we will ever get back to the Rose Bowl. I point out that it is not solely in the hands of the conference to determine that and you make me out to be someone that is satisfied at 7-5?

Do I understand your response to my post properly?
 
Thawki said:
Our coach went 8-0 in conference in 2002 and someone asks if we think we will ever get back to the Rose Bowl. I point out that it is not solely in the hands of the conference to determine that and you make me out to be someone that is satisfied at 7-5? Do I understand your response to my post properly?
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you understand it perfectly.
 
Yes. I think its very possible Kirk could pull the bus over at the Rose Bowl in Mason City on the way back from Minnesota roll a frame or two.
 
Re: I think this is a stupid question.

Thawki said:
If you want to ask that question, the real question should be "Do you think we will ever get to a BCS bowl under this coaching staff?"

We cannot control if we will get to the Rose Bowl because it is not entirely in the hands of our conference. If the rules in place were the same ones in place when Hayden was the coach at Iowa we would have already been there. We should have been there in 2002. A B10 team went to the national championship game so shy shouldn't the also undefeated in conference team have gone to the Rose Bowl? But we didn't. If this team went undefeated in conference play, which it did, this question should not even be asked.

Maybe I would feel differently if you (the original poster) would clarify your line of reasoning based upon my response.
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Will Iowa win an outright Big Ten Title or share it and finish first and have the ability to go to the Rose Bowl. 2002 was a fluke and I don't think that scenario would happen very often.
 
Someone mentioned losses we shouldn't have as a barrier to Pasadena. For those harping on the 2002 BCS selection, a loss we shouldn't have had was a BIG barrier that year. Beat ISU and you actually split all tiebreakers with OSU and aren't an at-large team.
 
The real question is...will we get to a B10 Championship game under this current staff?

Ya gotta crawl before you can walk.
 
I would LOVE to get back to the Rose Bowl more than anything, but I just don't see it happening under this staff, which is a really disappointing thing to admit as a diehard Hawkeye fan.
 
Re: I think this is a stupid question.

Okay, Cory. So, you discount the fact that this coach went undefeated in B10 play so that the premise of your question remains in tact? What did they do in 2002 but go undefeated and finish first in the B10 and then they didn't go to the Rose Bowl because the way the BCS is set up a team that wasn't a B10 team went to the Rose Bowl when Iowa could have, in theory, gone.

The question seems to have been asked by you because you don't think the staff is capable of doing what is needed to go to the Rose Bowl, which really is basically synonymous to winning the B10 championship. Going undefeated in conference is the best that a team can do in conference play and this coach did that and still didn't go to the Rose Bowl. That wasn't his fault. He could have gone undefeated that year and he still wouldn't have been in the national championship game but also still wouldn't have been in the Rose Bowl.

That is why I think the premise is flawed. Then you explain your question away by discounting the fact that this coach had the greatest conference season in the history of the program? You seem to infer that this staff is not capable of doing what is needed to go be go to the Rose Bowl when they have already had a season of that nature at least once.

So you seem to be inferring the staff isn't capable of doing something they have already done. Am I missing something here?
 
no...When we do get to the rose bowl we will probably have a defensive coordinator. Did everybody forget we have been to 2 bcs games?
 
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