Maybe it's not what we're offering financially as much as what we're offering on the field. Shitty offense every damn year!! How many total starting snaps has an Iowa qb made in NFL over the past 20 years??? Maybe 35 total? How many starting snaps has an Iowa wide receiver made in the NFL over the past 20 years??? Zero! Easy to recruit against shit. However, I also feel our NIL funds are way lower than reported. At this point we have no choice but to do what Tennessee is doing next year, adding a 10% talent fee onto every football ticket next year. We could raise $500k-$700k every home game for NIL if we follow that path. We don't have the huge corporate donor's other teams have so we have to do something or continue to slide into complete irrelevance.

It sure isn’t the Wisconsin dells. Buncha fatties here. One ride you have to weigh between 250-750. My son and I were 210. They tried to team us with two women. They put us over the 750

Bad news first- as an Iowa fan I am completely sick of Fran and his fake tough guy act. Teams take on their coaches traits and it is no wonder Iowa implodes late in games more times than not. 16 freaking years with nothing but some individual star players to show for it. Beth better be ready to push him out and get on the phone to McCullom

Good news- HAMMERED the ISU moneyline when they were down double digits. Everyone with a brain knew Iowa would blow that lead.

Below is the Top 20 viewed games so far.

The first 13 games listed below involve SEC & B1G teams ONLY.

When it comes to the Other 2 conferences (ACC, Big 12):

* The 14th game listed below had an ACC (Georgia Tech) and an SEC team (Georgia).

* The Big 12 is not represented in this list.

ISU and Miami . . . Clones leading 21-14 late in the first. It looks a lot like backyard football. Nobody wants to hit anybody. At this pace, the final would be 84 to 56. LOL

And some people think Miami should have been in the playoff . . .

I have two nephews that fall in that age range with 2 more close. I spent some time with them over the holidays, the 20 y/o is going to graduate from UW with an engineering degree and is intelligent enough he will be ok, though socially he isn't great. He will live a "thinkers" life and be comfortable yet calculated.

The other 3, have zero ability to navigate the world. One has been told he is special since the day he was born and now is failing out of High school because he has zero ability to handle adversity. ( He has a diagnosed disability and willlikely live with his parents his whole life, he seems to think he is smarter than the rest of the world)


22 Y/O maybe has a chance but will likely end up with a miserable life because he has zero ability to stand up for what he wants or thinks. Smart enough to be ok but still lives at home, has been "going to school" for years with no end in sight.

15. I am genuinely concerned about. These young men have ZERO fortitude. He quits playing games against his little sister.

Never again. I have given them a couple second chances in the last 6 months or so but tonight is the last straw. I’ve been up since 11:00. …. I’m serious this time goddamn it!!

What a finish on that game - WOW

WTH, Kirk! Good grief, he was once one of my favorite CFB analysts. Now he's just an e$ECpn shill. It started with us, now it's propagated across the rest of the country this idea that wins no longer matter:

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Dumbasses!:

Lori Mosura goes to the grocery store on a bicycle because she can’t afford to fix her Ford F-150 truck.
The single mother and her 17-year-old son live in an apartment that is so small she sleeps in the dining room. They receive $1,200 each month in food stamps and Social Security benefits but still come up short. Mosura said she often finds herself deciding between buying milk or toilet paper.

It was all that penny-pinching that drove the part-time tax consultant to abandon the Democratic Party this fall and vote for Donald Trump.


“He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich,” Mosura, 55, said on a recent afternoon. “I think he knows it’s the poor people that got him elected, so I think Trump is going to do more to help us.”
Trump carried the Pennsylvania city of New Castle by about 400 votes, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win here in nearly 70 years. More than 1 in 4 residents live in poverty, and the median income in this former steel and railroad hub ranks as one of the lowest in Pennsylvania.
New Castle’s poorest residents weren’t alone in putting their faith in Trump. Network exit polls suggest he erased the advantage Democrats had with low-income voters across the country.
Trump signs along Richelieu Street in New Castle. (Jeff Swensen for The Washington Post)


Fifty percent of voters from families with an income of less than $50,000 a year cast their ballots for Trump, according to the data, compared with 48 percent for Vice President Kamala Harris. Four years ago, President Joe Biden carried those voters by 11

Now, low-income Americans who voted for Trump say they are counting on him to keep their benefits intact even while his Cabinet picks and Republican lawmakers call on him to reduce federal spending.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — whom Trump has chosen to lead a new nongovernmental advisory panel, the “Department of Government Efficiency” — have said they want to trim $2 trillion from the government’s annual budget, a cut that some experts say could be accomplished only by slashing entitlement programs. Trump’s pick for White House budget director was a key architect of Project 2025, a plan drawn up by conservatives to guide his second term that calls for steep cuts to programs such as food stamps. And GOP leaders in Congress and Trump advisers are considering significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal aid.

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The uncertainty comes after last week’s high-stakes showdown in Congress over the federal funding bill. Lawmakers narrowly avoided a shutdown after agreeing to fund the government until March. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) had unveiled a bipartisan bill to put off a shutdown, but Trump and Musk railed against what they said was unnecessary spending in the initial package.
“Everybody is on hyperalert,” said Tom Scott, the chief executive officer of Lawrence County Community Action Partnership, a social service agency that helps New Castle residents. “You have to be concerned because you don’t know which programs could be targeted” for spending reductions.

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In a recent appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said any efforts by his administration to streamline the federal government would not impact entitlement programs such as Social Security.
“Americans of all backgrounds elected President Trump because of his plans to lower costs, end the financial drain of illegal immigrants on our healthcare system, and ensure that our country can continue to care for American citizens who rely on Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security,” said Anna Kelly, a spokeswoman for his transition team.
Some longtime Democrats like Mosura said they initially struggled over whether to vote for Trump. They had believed Democrats were the most likely to help the poor and disagreed with Republicans on issues like abortion. But Mosura said she kept coming back to the conclusion that Trump would put Americans like her first and improve her economic prospects.
Mosura said she has been unable to find full-time work in her field and is planning to change her party affiliation to Republican. But she also gets anxious when she hears GOP politicians talk about reducing government spending.
“We helped get you in office; please take care of us,” Mosura said, shifting the conversation as though she were speaking to Trump. “Please don’t cut the things that help the most vulnerable.”

I'm gonna try to hide this here, but over on the main Rivals board, I'm in the process of entrapping a Nebraska troll, of whom some or many of you are familiar with.

He is the mentally disturbed individual that like spams posts on this website with disposable usernames/accounts often mocking Iowa, the fans, etc.

He's more prevalent on the FB boards, but has occasionally been seen like spamming on the bball, HBOT, and wrestling boards as well. So while I'm attempting to "hide" this thread here on the wrestling board, I'm not operating under the illusion that this troll won't see it, which is fine.

I don't mind at all if he finds out that he's been set up.

With that out of the way, all I ask from my fellow Hawk fans, is to click the link to the thread below and vote for Nebraska in the poll. I know most of you probably can't post on that main board unless you are subscribed to Rivals or your account was grandfathered in, but you should still be able to vote, and that's all that's needed.

The poll itself is merely a ruse to draw out as many of the spam accounts by this Nebraska fan so that the mods can delete them. There's already 28 accounts that he's created just to vote in this poll and unwittingly shared for the mods to delete.

I simply ask that you all help finish the job by helping Iowa win the poll and get the last laugh, as well.

P.S. please do be sure to read the poll first before voting

Rivals poll link

A sport utility vehicle traveling the wrong way on Highway 13 south of Marion on Friday night struck a passenger car and killed one its passengers, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.



A sheriff’s news release said first responders were called at 9:48 p.m. Friday to Highway 13, also called U.S. Highway 151 in the area, near Travis Road. In the northbound lanes there, they found that a 2010 Honda CR-V occupied only by its driver had collided with a 2003 Saturn passenger vehicle, occupied by three people and headed north in the proper lanes.


One of the Saturn’s passengers was ejected in the crash and died, the Sheriff’s Office said. The other two occupants suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries and were hospitalized.




The driver of the Honda had to be mechanically extricated from the SUV and was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the Sheriff’s Office said.


The names of those involved have not been released and the Sheriff’s Office did not say what investigators believe led to a driver going the wrong way on the highway.


The Sheriff’s Office said a third vehicle, a 2024 Subaru, became involved in the crash but its occupants were not injured.


The northbound lanes in the area were closed for about four hours because of the crash, which remains under investigation.

Millions of $$ for kids to play a college sport is stupid.

Cheering for millionaires from one school play millionaires from another is difficult to do.

Especially, when I know lots of people who are struggling to get by.

The college football playoffs are for the most part fun. Some games are better than others. That said, in order to win the championship, the winning team (and runner up) will end up playing 16 games this season. Given that these players are college students it is a lot to ask of them to play that many games. Yes they get paid, but it is not yet their fill time profession. They are playing 12 regular season games. Some play conference championships. Many play bowl games or playoff games. There is spring practice, summer conditioning and fall camp. There is the regular season and daily practices. Travel time. The time commitment is all consuming. At the end of the season it becomes a question of roster attrition. Many of the best players are hurt and not playing. I think that it’s time in college to cut back the number of games. Go back to an 11 game season. Eliminate conference championships. Who cares who wins the B1G championship? The top 2 or 3 teams will make the playoffs anyway. Give these kids a break.

vs current Down By Any Means?

Hank Brown is a Hawkeye.

STORY:

With the freshly announced loss of Jamari Butler (who Iowa should go hard after)

They have now lost a current 5 guys

The future of the Iowa OL was a key topic during media availability this week and Gennings Dunker and Mason Richman talked about:

-- young guys who have impressed
-- how the OL can continue to improve
-- the importance of George Barnett
and much more.

So when they hang a picture up in the East Wing, will it be a group picture of his staff instead of Biden?

Been quite a year for myself. I will be in Vegas tomorrow for the week, so this is my last post of 2024.

It started with me having to put down my best friend in January. I went homeless (by choice). Bought my best friends widow a house. She's disabled from the accident that killed my friend. I bought it because on SSDI she could barely survive, so I felt the need to help her. I found my love, after 14 years of single life. I moved back to Iowa after being gone for 37 years. Got engaged. Getting married in Vegas New Years Day. I changed job positions (starting Jan 6th). That way I'll be home every night. I'll miss all the travels and being in different states all the time, but I wouldn't be a good husband if I wasn't home to take care of business.

Things I've learned:
-Even an A-hole like me can find love
-Pets can change the mood to good (never realized it till they're gone
-Living in AirB&B's and Motels suck
-Who my real friends are

Things I want to change:
-Providing more help for my fellow Vets. (Love y'all)
-Ugh...try and drink less
-Gear up for retirement

What say you?

R.I.P. Neil. You were one of the great ones.

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It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

First time to the music city bowl. Where will all the tailgating take place? Do most just tailgate at a bar or will people grill and put up tents around the stadium? Trying to decide whether or not to bring all my tailgate stuff.