Bizarre coaches in 1987

[CleteyColgate]

Iowa should have been playing in this game against Indiana in 1987, but my goodness can you think of two weirder coaches than Tark and Knight? One is sucking a towel and the other can't pull his sweater down over his belly button or stop pacing like a loon while ready to erupt at any moment.

 

[goodbyebobby]

Had Iowa not choked away a 16 point halftime lead they would have played IU.
No ifs, ands, or buts, they completely blew it so your premise makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[CleteyColgate]

Had Iowa not choked away a 16 point halftime lead they would have played IU.
No ifs, ands, or buts, they completely blew it so your premise makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[goodbyebobby]

Truth hurts. Sorry.

 

[dekhawk]

Most painful loss in my Hawkeye history.

 

[goodbyebobby]

I thought DePaul earlier this year was worse.

 

[HawkRugged17]

I thought DePaul earlier this year was worse.

 

[HawkIDrummer]

Ray Meyer, the human koala bear

 

[goodbyebobby]

Ray Meyer, the human koala bear

And Joey is also in the picture here. Whole koala family

 

[Hawksfor3]

One is sucking a towel

Tark was pretty picky about the towels. Had to be folded a certain way and he chewed on a wet towel as well as a dry one.

 

[hawkguy77]

Most painful loss in my Hawkeye history.

Second to the Jacksonville loss in 1970 for me. Third would be the loss to Louisville in 1980 when Ronnie Lester re-injured his leg and couldn't finish the game.

 

[slipHawk]

I enjoyed watching that

 

[T. Kimball]

Iowa should have been playing in this game against Indiana in 1987, but my goodness can you think of two weirder coaches than Tark and Knight? One is sucking a towel and the other can't pull his sweater down over his belly button or stop pacing like a loon while ready to erupt at any moment.

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You posting this gave me the laugh I needed today. When Tark was king, I was young enough that when I saw him sucking a towel, I thought, "That's weird...whatever." But now that I look back it's super weird. I did some googling on the interwebs and found an article where he claimed he did it out of superstition. It started because once as a high school coach he got tired of walking to a drinking fountain, and instead soaked a towel to suck on. Perhaps his part of the country hadn't been introduced to cups at that point...

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

 

[stillh8unlv]

Most painful loss in my Hawkeye history.

I hear ya