Tougher schedule? Never. The big 12 plays every other team, you miss the power teams in the Big 10 most years. Texas played Ohio State more times than you did. lol.
McCarney beat Ferentz his first four years (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002), but who's counting?
"Every single measure".....there is no way you are an attorney as you claim. No attorney would be foolish enough to make that claim. Even Sagarin(who had Iowa ranked high at the end of the year)had Iowa with the 44th ranked schedule and ISU at 18th. My guess is that out of 5 different strength metrics, ISU would have a stronger schedule in at least 4 or maybe all 5. If you are actually a paralegal, then the research part would be quite simple.
There is no question the Big 10 has much better bowl tie-ins than the Big 12. The Alamo Bowl however, has moved up in the pecking order from what it was when Iowa last played in it. At one time it was in the middle of the Big 12 pecking order, but has moved up to the best best Big 12 bowl after the NY6 bowls.
Correct. I was just making the comparison to Campbell. McCarney did beat him four times, but I’m guessing most on here were not hailing McCarney as a better coach than Ferentz at the time. By the end of 2002, Ferentz had lost more games than he had won at Iowa, but finished with a top 10 team.
It seemed like Ferentz was on his way to being fired in the early years, but seemed to show improvement in his third year if my memory serves. I could be off on the exact timing. McCarney took what seemed like forever to get things going at Iowa State. He finally got it turned around and was peaking about time Ferentz took over and was fighting what seemed to be an uphill battle. I suspect there was a few years when McCarney was considered by most fans of either team to be the better coach. That period also coincided with double digit growth in attendance in Ames at the same time attendance at Iowa was declining. The decline ended around the 2002 season give or take a year or two.
I might give you 2000, as that was McCarney’s best season at ISU, but there was also a lot of improvement in 2000 for Ferentz and there was a feeling amongst the media that he was turning things around. McCarney was in his 6th season and established, so hard to say on that year. But there is no doubt by the year 2001 that Kirk would’ve clearly been favored, even though he lost Iowa State, his body of work was steadily improving and McCarney backslid that year. The following year Kirk had a top 10 team which is something McCarney never accomplished.
Iowa played on New Years Day against SEC opponent and competing games at same time vs a Fri Dec 28th Alamo Bowl game (between two no-name teams) with no competing games...where's the comparison?
I don't see it as Wisky just plain plays a tougher brand of no nonsense football than any Frost led team ever will.
Both Purdue and Northwestern would have their ways with iswho.
Yep the clowns would have fought it out with Nebraska and Illinois to stay out of the bottom.
You got the point. Better teams in better bowl means prime slot with higher payout.
No-name? Wash St tied for their division lead but lost the tiebreak. Do you actually think either team in the bowl game that the hawks played in is a "name" program? I got news for you, they aren't. Your argument is funny to say the least.
