1985 Hawks
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I don't believe the 09 team was near as good as the 85 team. Losing to NWstrn and getting very fortunate to beat UNI and Indiana is not good for the argument. The 85 Iowa team blew teams out. 59-0 over a good Illinois team, beating #2 Michigan, beating a very good team at Purdue with Jim Everett at QB, beating Michigan St with one of the best RB's in the B10 in the 80's Lorenzo White. Yup, lost to Ohio St on the road, same as the 09 team, and lost to UCLA in a home game for the Bruins in which one guy single handily gave the game away. Every other game they won wasn't a contest. The 09 team was in almost every game they played and came out on the good side fortunately.
I love the 09 team and they had a great defense, but the 85 team was much more dominant and you won't find may people over 40 that would agree that 09 was better. Look what that team did the next year with almost the exact same roster. 2010 was the most disappointing Iowa team in my lifetime, just ahead of 1997.
I love the 09 team and they had a great defense, but the 85 team was much more dominant and you won't find may people over 40 that would agree that 09 was better. Look what that team did the next year with almost the exact same roster. 2010 was the most disappointing Iowa team in my lifetime, just ahead of 1997.
Exactly correct. That group of players (and coaches) was just addicted to playing close games. They won most of them in '09 and lost most of them the next year. '85 and '02 would rather just kick the shit out of the other team.
In agreement about the 85 game with UM...Absolutely one of the first and best memories of Iowa football. The scope of the game, the elements, the crowd, all of it made for the best game ever in history in my opinion. Still get the chills when the kick goes thru and the fans and HF go nuts...Just a perfect Iowa memory
If the only game you ever saw Ronnie play was the Rose Bowl, you could possibly think it was just a tough luck game. But, c'mon! The guy had hands the size of softball gloves. He never dropped anything. When he played receiver he made circus catches. Did he fumble against the #1 defense in the country when they played Michigan? I don't think so. In the rain against tOSU? I don't think so (could be wrong, but I know he only fumbled once that year). In both of those case, they were protecting being #1 in the NATION. Arguably, more important than the Rose Bowl.
Those fumbles in the Rose Bowl - it looked like he just ... dropped them. They weren't ripped out of his hands.
How can you play for 4 years with great hands and then fumble 4 times in a half?? The answer is - you can't.
So, he was either on the take, or it was the biggest choke job in history. He is a World Class Goat.
I think I'll side with both the FBI and Hayden Fry when they concluded it was just a very bad day for Harmon.
It took a missed facemask to take him out of the game. That would have taken a score away. Then there was the bs holding calll that took away a td run. The officials played to big a role in that game and iowa got caught looking past nw. Play that game ten times iowa wins nine of them. Ten with competent officiating.
Talk crap when you finish in the top ten. This way we won't see you here again.
We were up 10-0 before the injury/fumble for a NW touchdown. Lost 17-10. Stanzi doesn't get injured/fumble we probably win that game. Vandy did absolutely nothing the rest of that NW game.
I am with you on this one was the most electric atmosphere I have witnessed before or after.
Stanzi was a pain in the ass with all his Rush Limbaugh bullshit! He should have went to an ultra right school like Iowa State and saved spewing his John Wayne bullshit in liberal Iowa City. I knew 100s who felt the same!
Long was definitely deserving of all the awards and accolades he received but I would loved to have seen what Chuck Hartlieb would have done with that 85 team. Hartlieb pretty much carried the Iowa offense his senior year. Definitely one of my all time favorite HAWKEYES....
Catch on moron 50 percent of the people in Americas think big mouths like him are assholes! He thinks liberals should leave the country, what a complete dic! I got an idea why doesn't he get on the next plane out to the Middle East, they could use more bodies. Why don't you and him get together and talk it over.
Not defensively. 85 team gave up a ton of yards on the ground. An average UCLA team had a 3rd string guy go for 220. Lorenzo White went for more than 200 as well.
Offensively, yes, pretty good. One of the best.
People underrate KF's best teams who were bigger and probably as good or better. Definitely on the defensive side of the ball.
No, I certainly don't believe that. He had everything to prove going back to the shoe. I feel for him.
I thought you and Ricki were on the way to fight wars all over the globe you chicken shit?
