Wow Kirk...

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Bigtenchamp

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That was not one of your finest coaching performances.

But him and this team has had their heads far up their A** all season.

I'm wondering how interested anyone over there is anymore.
 
Its on the Defense - they gave up all those points.

And its on the OC/KF for the lame play calling in the 2nd half - as if they were embarased to have scored so many points and felt guilty...so we're just goonna do what you expect, if you can't stop us we'll just keep pounding. Up the middle up the middle paaaass punt. Can't melt the clock when you punt on the 4th play of the series each time.
 
What's more "WOW KIRK" than any of this, is after the 91-yard TD drive in the third quarter, the next four drives STARTED in Purdue territory, and Iowa managed 14 total yards and four punts.

Two of these punts happened inside Purdue's 40 yard line. One punt (from Purdue's 33 yard line) with the 15 mph wind at Coluzzi's back, resulted in a touch back-- netting 13 yards of field position.
 
I don't think ferentz did anything wrong with how he managed the game. he played the 2's and some 3's for 3 straight possessions. They all now have film of themselves they can watch. They also got to experience having a possession, coming to the sidelines and talk about "what did you" with the coaches, discuss possible adjustments, and then go back out for another possession and try to implement it. I think yesterday was invaluable.

The issues were with our deep pass defense and 2nd string OL. When the starters were pulled, our OL didn't block very well. The 1 thing I wish he would have done when he put the #1 offense back in is give Toks some carries with the #1 OL, instead of using AW and LD. Otherwise, he let the backups play. They obviously need to improve. We need help at the safety positions. I'm surprised Gair isn't challenging Snyder for PT.
 
The good teams would have never taken the foot off the petal, see Mich at rutgers. A win is a win but sometimes perception does mean something. If we would hAve just beat them down people notice that. Instead all I've heard about is how we gave up 500+ yrds to Purdue. Anyone who actually watched the game knows it was completely one sided, but very few actually watched. Perception matters to these recruits these days. It's ok to kick somebody's a$$ kirk
 
Stonehawk said:
The good teams would have never taken the foot off the petal, see Mich at rutgers. A win is a win but sometimes perception does mean something. If we would hAve just beat them down people notice that. Instead all I've heard about is how we gave up 500+ yrds to Purdue. Anyone who actually watched the game knows it was completely one sided, but very few actually watched. Perception matters to these recruits these days. It's ok to kick somebody's a$$ kirk
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If you're talking about nationally, then you have a point. However, that bed has been made over the past 17+ seasons and didn't just appear after yesterday's game. I went and looked at the stats and our defensive backups gave up at least 277 yards in the 4th qtr. That's more than half of PU's total yardage. I will say that the book on Iowa for the rest of the season will be to throw on us, deep. Our safeties aren't covering deep, very well.
 
I seen three plays yesterday where either mabin or our saftey we completely out of position and I guarentee those would be capitalized by wisc or Mich into tds. We got lucky but "that's football". I think our defense is so close to really being legit. I love mabin but he just seems to be way out of position too often. I expected a huge year from him this year, not that he's terrible just expected more
 
Stonehawk said:
I seen three plays yesterday where either mabin or our saftey we completely out of position and I guarentee those would be capitalized by wisc or Mich into tds. We got lucky but "that's football". I think our defense is so close to really being legit. I love mabin but he just seems to be way out of position too often. I expected a huge year from him this year, not that he's terrible just expected more
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I did also. Any team that can throw deep will be able to exploit Iowa's deep middle. That includes play pass and then sending a TE deep over the middle. Our safeties seem to bite on the run, a lot. Or are at least inconsistent.
 
The game was never in question. I really couldn't care less what they felt like doing. Maybe they thought their run blocking needed more work. Who knows? Don't care.
 
I will say this. Wow. We have fans that complain about our second team not getting reps and then when Kirk puts in the second team (and they don't execute and end up with three-and-outs) and Iowa loses it's huge lead... they complain about losing a huge lead.

My question is this: should he have left his starters in and not given the second team any reps? He would then face criticism about not playing second team players, and God forbid that a starter get hurt while playing with that kind of lead.
 
Knight78 said:
I will say this. Wow. We have fans that complain about our second team not getting reps and then when Kirk puts in the second team (and they don't execute and end up with three-and-outs) and Iowa loses it's huge lead... they complain about losing a huge lead.

My question is this: should he have left his starters in and not given the second team any reps? He would then face criticism about not playing second team players, and God forbid that a starter get hurt while playing with that kind of lead.
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I felt like we took a satisfying performance... and muddied it - when we haven't had a satisfying performance since ISU.

I think the reserves should have played... but I don't understand the method of playing ALL of them at once and on BOTH sides of the ball.

It clearly was the wrong choice... he had to put the 1st team offense in again.

Yes play back- ups... but not all of them at once.

But I'm pretty sure we won't ever see that again this year... with our competition coming up and how bad those guys played when they got in.
 
I really only have 2 issues with the coaching decisions.

Not bringing pressure in the 3rd-4th qtr when we knew they would be throwing almost every down. And not kicking the 1 fg from their 35 with the wind.

Great times to work on blitzing schemes and get your kicker game reps.

Other than that, backups need to make plays to...even when it's vanilla. A couple knocked down deep balls against our 2's/3's and a lucky bounce from winning by 4 touchdowns and giving up about 250 total yards.
 
-------Two of these punts happened inside Purdue's 40 yard line. One punt (from Purdue's 33 yard line) with the 15 mph wind at Coluzzi's back, resulted in a touch back-- netting 13 yards of field position.

Boy,,,,,,never seen that before after a poor decision by Ferments to punt.
 
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