200 Total Yards of Offense

[ichawk24]

Kirk and co. sign a 2-star RB out of NJ, beating Temple to land him, which most Hawkeye fans probably criticized him for at the time. The football program patiently developed the person AND the player as he fought homesickness, academic issues, weight issues, fumble issues, and general inconsistency.

They helped develop the player into a great player, who had the option to go pro after his Junior year and now most assuredly will be drafted after his Senior year.

And some fans bitch and whine that he "bailed" the coaches out, when the reality may be the opposite.

 

[ichawk24]

Maybe 2018 will be better, but KF/BF won't get bailed out by Wadley, Jackson, or Jewel making exceptional individual plays.

Very amusing that all three players you identified were all 2-star recruits. The coaches just sit back and let their elite 2-star athleticism bail them out.

 

[Hawkeyeinsoutherncalifornia]

Very well said OP.. stats are for losers (ok not really) but IOWA has proven this time and time again they can pull out the V after getting dominated by the stats

200 yards is not going to cut it on most days. With that said, this game shows how important special teams (return game) and defense (turnovers) can be.

Special teams may not necessarily win you games, but it can certainly lose them.

 

[KuwaitHawk]

A heated baseball field? That is funny

 

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

I think we all agree that the Pinstripe Bowl is a poor substitute for the Motor City Bowl.

 

[icantfindausernamethatisntused]

Agreed, the coaches put the players in position to succeed. Akrum succeeded in plays not many people would have been able too, that will not be there for the coaches next year. The play call in space was what got wadley 1 on 1 with lanning and probably a first down, the remaining 40 yards are pure athlete. Watch the play. Every heard a coach say "you can't teach that"? Or "the coach didn't fumble the ball"? Players make plays to win games, coaches make calls that lose games, officials make calls that change games. Again, if the call is get the ball to our best player in a 1 on 1 with a linebacker and watch him do the rest, my 8th grade coach could call that play.

If getting the ball to your best playmaker in a 1 on 1 situation isn't a good play call, then there aren't many good play-callers in the country. Most designed plays don't rely on a completely unguarded receiver because that doesn't happen unless there's a complete breakdown on defense.

There isn't an offensive coordinator in the country that doesn't rely on his players to win 1 on 1 matchups. If you don't have players that can win 1 on 1 matchups, then you're not going to win much regardless the play calling.

 

[icantfindausernamethatisntused]

I tend to agree. In a performance based position you cannot perform worse than the guy, who got ran out of town, before you and expect to keep your job. FWIW I hope brian does get it figured out.

You don't think Brian Ferentz outperformed Greg Davis this year? We scored more points and gained more yards than we did last year, and that was after we lost a 3rd round QB, 5th round TE, leading receiver, and leading rusher from last year, and we also lost our top 2 OTs during the season.

 

[icantfindausernamethatisntused]

Nepotism.....Hawks were able to overcome an offensive coordinator that had ZERO experience for a 8 - 5 record.

No one hires an OC in the big ten that has no history of calling plays...well except for Iowa. You can thank Uncle Gary and daddy Kirk for the 107th ranked offense in the nation.

GD leaves the program and who does Iowa interview for the position? That's right.....NOBODY!

It's a slap in the face to the fans and unfair to the players that a qualified applicant was not hired. If Brian comes out again next year and shits the bed with an offense ranked > 90th in the nation he needs to be terminated....just like he would with that level of performance in a power 5 conference.

Wisconsin's head coach (Paul Chryst) hired both his current offensive and defensive coordinators before either had experience as coordinators. Jeff Brohm hired his brother as co-offensive coordinator at Purdue despite his brother having just one year of coaching experience as a quarterbacks coach.