All dogs go to Heaven.
All former Iowa QBs go to Utah.
All former Iowa QBs go to Utah.
Deacon Hill has found a new home
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No idea. But players CAN receive $$$ now. Yet, they should still be able to enjoy college life.
Deacon's teammates rallied around him and liked him. That can't be said for everyone. So he had some level of leadership ability.
To be respected and to be someone the team rallies around is a huge trait as a QB. It allows a team to galvanize and become more than the sum of its parts. It develops an "it" factor on a team that helps them learn how to win.
It's easy to kick a dog when it's down. But true Hawkeyes fight for each other. And that's exactly how over and over again the Hawks won games that people claimed was luck
"Fans' favorite player is the backup QB." That's an actual saying. But once that backup has played some, they want the starter back. Or, in the case of an injured starter, they are ready for the next backup.
After the MSU game, there were actually fans who preferred Deacon over Cade.
Fans will fan
After the MSU game, there were actually fans who preferred Deacon over Cade.
Fans will fan
Good for him… I liked his enthusiasm on the field and his teammates respected him … seems like a great young man and I wish nothing but the best for him…
I respect this post a lot.
Our starter for most of the 2022 season and the entire 2023 season transferred to Utah Tech.
That's hard to digest
That's hard to digest
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wut?Our starter for moat of the 2022 season and the entire 2023 season transferred to Utah Tech.
That's hard to digest
Ok, but I doubt they'll be much left after he's finished.
Deacon Hill may be a fine human being, but he was a ridiculous choice to bring to Iowa City and then to install as the No. 1 QB on a Big Ten team. Utah Tech?! Will he be playing water polo as well? LOL
That this kid is now at Utah Tech confirms the sad reality that Kirk Ferentz doesn't know squat about offense in general or the QB position in particular. He called the Bud Man "a gift from God" after he lured Hill away from Fordham and towed him into Iowa City.
First transfer for Deac was to have been Fordham, and now it's Utah Tech. In between -- the Iowa Hawkeyes. One thing is not like the others . . .
I too have been to St. George and visited the campus of what was then Dixie State and is now Utah Tech. It is a lovely part of the country. But I had never heard of Utah Tech until now, so thanks for that update.
BTW: Utah Tech's largest home crowd last season was a little over 6,000, the smallest about 3,500 in a facility that seats around 10,000. The school's record crowd was about 8,800 a couple years ago.
That this kid is now at Utah Tech confirms the sad reality that Kirk Ferentz doesn't know squat about offense in general or the QB position in particular. He called the Bud Man "a gift from God" after he lured Hill away from Fordham and towed him into Iowa City.
First transfer for Deac was to have been Fordham, and now it's Utah Tech. In between -- the Iowa Hawkeyes. One thing is not like the others . . .
I too have been to St. George and visited the campus of what was then Dixie State and is now Utah Tech. It is a lovely part of the country. But I had never heard of Utah Tech until now, so thanks for that update.
BTW: Utah Tech's largest home crowd last season was a little over 6,000, the smallest about 3,500 in a facility that seats around 10,000. The school's record crowd was about 8,800 a couple years ago.
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Utah Tech went 2-9 last season
although their Junior QB had a season far and away better than Deacon, so I'm going to assume he'll be holding a clipboard next season
although their Junior QB had a season far and away better than Deacon, so I'm going to assume he'll be holding a clipboard next season
He was a terrible quarterback at this level. But by all accounts he was a good teammate. A place like Utah Tech is where he should have been all along. Last year was really on the coaches for putting him in a spot that was way over his skill set. He had no chance. What was he to say, I’m no good, put someone else in?
The whole thing about Iowa’s offense last fall made absolutely no sense. It was almost like an experiment to see how many games a team can win by not playing offense. I don’t want to be part of that experiment again. They should have given us informed consent waivers in August last year. Ethically they owed us that.
The whole thing about Iowa’s offense last fall made absolutely no sense. It was almost like an experiment to see how many games a team can win by not playing offense. I don’t want to be part of that experiment again. They should have given us informed consent waivers in August last year. Ethically they owed us that.
That's a good spin job. Nobody said Hill was a bad person, just a horrible QB. KF claiming Hill was the best guy they had for the job was nonsense from the start, and anyone with eyes knew it. And yet KF dug in his heels, as he always has, and refused to admit that Hill was a huge . . . pun intended . . . mistake. They could have asked for volunteers from the student body and found someone better than Hill. Or they could have given the ball to Lainez, a QB that KF gave a scholarship to, and had a chance to move the ball. But no. So Hill may have been a "great teammate." So what? How about the last guy on the roster, the 125th player, the last of the walkons who comes to practice every day and gets his head beat in and has no hope of ever seeing the field? How about that kid as a "great teammate"?
Hill had no business in Iowa City. Simple as that.
And don't forget about Labas. He never saw one snap all year. That never made sense to me. He didn't look that bad in the bowl game, at least he didn't turn the ball over, which I always thought was the fast pass to the bench. Was it really because he smoked too much weed, as was being discussed last fall?
Smoked weed and was late for meetings. That's the rumor anyway. I always wondered if he wasn't a little offended that he was essentially recruited over not once but twice in the offseason.
This is true, but I’d add it’s equal parts the culture and expectation that KF has instilled in the program too. Rally around your teammates.
To be clear, KF is accountable for not having a better option at QB, but he’s also set the culture for when the times get tough, you rally around your teammates and carry on together.
Also, Labas was injured at the start of the season. That's how Deacon was able to pass him on the depth chart initially. By the time Labas was healthy, we were winning games (somehow) with Deacon, and the weed rumors started surfacing.
I heard Labas looked good in the spring game for Central Michigan.
I've been through St. George a couple times. It seemed like a nice place. Its only about 90 minutes from Vegas.
Nothing to be spun. Was answering a poster's question about what Hill brought to the program. And I think everything I said was accurate.
Amidst all the complaining about Hill, I have yet to hear one person willing to say they honestly believe Lainez would have won as many games (assuming you've eliminated Labas from the equation). Are you the first? If not, then Hill was the best guy for the job. Simple as that
The question of whether Lainez would have won as many games as Deacon cannot be answered because he never had an opportunity. I had a very difficult time watching Deacon lumber onto the field and take snaps. I hope he does well at Utah Tech, but I am glad he is not on Iowa's roster.
Yeah wow is right, I can’t believe that guy had a hard time watching Hill have 5 TDs 13 Turnovers and complete 48% of his passes.
Guess not everyone can be as good a fan as you huh?
Deservedly so! Idiotic how awful the recruiting and coaching under BF has been. He should be embarrassed and his dad should be as well for this experiment gone so wrong for so long!
Sad reality is we shouldn’t have any bad feelings for Petras nor Hill. It’s not THEIR fault they were playing for a team they shouldn’t have been recruited to nor allowed to retain their roles for as long as they did. As time goes on, the lunacy actually seems worse!
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I should have explained myself. The "wow" was in reference to the first part of his post.
Of course the question of whether Lainez would have won as many games as Hill can't be answered for sure. But if that's the standard, then we'll also never know for sure if Marco should have played. Whereas people act like he should have played for sure.
That's why the question is if anybody will say they honestly believe Marco WOULD have won as many games as Deacon. Because people have had no problem saying they honestly believe Marco should have been playing.
There have been many threads where people have had the opportunity to say they honestly believe that Marco would have won as many games as Deacon. But I have yet to see anybody do so. This renders their thoughts on the matter to be a bunch of idle complaining, which is very common for this board.
And since you mentioned it, no, I've never had a difficult time watching any Iowa victory
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Its another reminder just how terrible this got under Brian. We all hoped he would be the one to modernize things and tell the emperor he had no clothes, and it turned out that Brian decided to get naked too. Just pure incompetence.
Recruiting Hill was a desperation move to begin with, and no one looking at that offense that actually has a brain thinks we'd have done any worse putting a running back at QB instead of going with that mess. What an awful position to put a player, that by all accounts is just an earnest, good dude, and came to Iowa with a short runway while being underdeveloped, and to levy that kind of burden on him.
It goes without saying that I lost a lot of respect all the way around for KF after last season. You can't have a set of cascading failures like that at the most important position on the field and survive normally. It was sickening having them dick around this spring with Deacon as QB1 - and do this all the while it cost his son his job. Crazy. If this isn't fixed this fall, it should be game over.
Recruiting Hill was a desperation move to begin with, and no one looking at that offense that actually has a brain thinks we'd have done any worse putting a running back at QB instead of going with that mess. What an awful position to put a player, that by all accounts is just an earnest, good dude, and came to Iowa with a short runway while being underdeveloped, and to levy that kind of burden on him.
It goes without saying that I lost a lot of respect all the way around for KF after last season. You can't have a set of cascading failures like that at the most important position on the field and survive normally. It was sickening having them dick around this spring with Deacon as QB1 - and do this all the while it cost his son his job. Crazy. If this isn't fixed this fall, it should be game over.
Makes you wonder why Wisconsin had him on the roster...
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