Wisconsin vs Alabama Series Set

eyekwah said:
Meanwhile Iowa is stuck playing ISU every year. Playing 10 Big Ten games and two non-conference games is more preferable than always ISU. At least it would not be the same team year after year. I think Wisconsin can use it as a great recruiting tool and will get national exposure.

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The problem is that fans like us are the 1%.

99% of the people driving the money into this burnt turd of a game are homers who couldn’t name more than 3 starters on his or her own team.

The shit sandwich that is the Iowa/ISU game is never going away unfortunately.
 
I like playing Iowa State every year. In-State rival in a game that means something for both fan bases. I would prefer to play all 9 big ten teams (wait, that ship has sailed), ISU, a cupcake and one other legit team each year. I think they fixed it without it being broke.
 
I should save this for State week, but F this game. I have no respect for State Fans who lose on Saturday and turn around the next workday and say things like "Yea but most of you guys work for Iowa State alumni" in a smug superior tone. These are the same fans the bark all year about "beating Iowa" on the few times they do. ( In football). I don't have to like them because they are an "in state" team. If I want to like a team for that I'll root for UNI or Drake. There is nothing I like about ISU, their fans, or their alumni. If this game went away forever it wouldn't please me more!
 
If for some reason Bama ever offered Iowa a home and home series, iowa should accept it without hesitation. Even if it means Iowa only playing 6 home games the year it plays at Bama.
 
All Iowa needs to do is give up 1 home game once every 6 years and then they could play another P5 team OOC once every 3 years.
 
I'd like to play a home and home with ISU within every 5 years and open up the other three years to play to other P-5 teams for some variety. But we've had that thread before.
 
Nick will be retired by the time this series starts. Unless we can induce Dabo to leave Clemson, I'm not optimistic about our future after Nick retires.
 
Meh, good for Wisconsin, but I’m not too interested in getting beat by an NFL caliber team like Alabama 50-14 in September. The gulf between top southern teams and Iowa in depth will just keep getting wider and wider. I’ll settle for a competitive game against ISU.
 
As I have said, once you start putting together 9-10 win seasons (which hopefully we are close) your chances of going 11-12 go up dramatically. If the ball bounces right, you don't have an injury or they do, ect all play a significant role between 10 wins and 12. In other words a little luck.
So once you get to 9-10 wins as the norm, you have to really pay attention to who those wins are against.
Pretty much you have to run the table to get into the playoffs. The only difference then becomes sos. Who you ran the table against.
For now I'm ok with the ISU game, as long as they do well in their conference. When they were winning so little??? Our game with them was a lose lose.
 
I’m sure Alabama fans say the say thing about Auburn.

There’s no win-Win situation for us....

We get stuck playing them every year...

I’d rather play real teams like Bama or Clemson....

It’d be nice playing someone that isn’t a rival every once in awhile...
 
HawkGold said:
Beating ISU is on chance?
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“On chance” is different than “chance”

most sane people take “chance” to be synonymous with “odds”

So the obvious question is, “are you sane?”
 
DDThompson said:
I’m sure Alabama fans say the say thing about Auburn.

There’s no win-Win situation for us....

We get stuck playing them every year...

I’d rather play real teams like Bama or Clemson....

It’d be nice playing someone that isn’t a rival every once in awhile...
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Nope. The Iron Bowl is the premier in-state rivalry game in the country and one of the top 5 rivalry games on par with, if not better than, the Red River Showdown, OSU-UM and the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. A lot of the other in state games, like Iowa-ISU, Clemson-USC, Oregon-OSU, Oklahoma-OSU, Kansas-KSU, etc. are really only interesting to the fans of the programs or in those areas. When's the last time anyone in Iowa gave a rat's ass about an Arizona-ASU game or a UNC-NC State game? Never.
 
While we should contend for division titles on a yearly basis, making the playoffs isn't a reality. I'd much rather take the chances with scheduling the big boys and risk getting pummeled then beating up on inferior opponents and finding us on the outside looking in during that "magical" season.

We can say what we want about being the benefactor of being able to pay smaller schools to come to Kinnick, but regardless of what they're being paid, those are the programs scheduling with something to gain. They're putting themselves in a position to get that big win while we're scheduling OOC games to keep that extra home game.

I simply don't believe that we're can say were focused on winning our division and contending for a conference championship when our OOC, with the exception of ISU, is what it is.
 
kicker22 said:
I'd much rather take the chances with scheduling the big boys and risk getting pummeled then beating up on inferior opponents and finding us on the outside looking in during that "magical" season.
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No way. Those years where we played The U in the early 90's were eye opening. Iowa just can't compete with the royalty of college football on a consistent basis. I liked it when we had 4 non-con games and played a moderate P5 team, like Pitt, Arizona, ASU, etc. Those are better preparation for the Big Ten season than getting tuned up by some legit top 5 or top 10 team would be.
 
okeefe4prez said:
No way. Those years where we played The U in the early 90's were eye opening. Iowa just can't compete with the royalty of college football on a consistent basis. I liked it when we had 4 non-con games and played a moderate P5 team, like Pitt, Arizona, ASU, etc. Those are better preparation for the Big Ten season than getting tuned up by some legit top 5 or top 10 team would be.
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I agree with this as well as your statement about getting tuned up by a legit top 5 or top 10 team, but we could find programs in that 10-25 range on a yearly basis. I just don't see how Miami of Ohio and Mid Tennessee State games get us prepared for back to back weeks at Michigan and then home against PSU.

On years we're not opening conference play week 2, why not start the year off against a quality opponent, followed up by a turd, and then ISU. I just don't see the benefit of finishing OOC play 3-0 against weak opponents as opposed to possibly going 2-1 or 1-2 vs. quality foes heading into conference play.
 
HawkGold said:
Man you sound like your alt ego minus the swearing....
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By your response I’m still up in the air about my question.

Although I’m leaning toward one direction since apparently it’s perfectly okay for you to troll somebody but if anyone trolls you then .... then it’s personal.
 
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