I'll never forget that game. Last one I attended with my best bud who passed suddenly the following Spring.
2012 was BS with a 4-8 team, and JVB took every snap all season.
I didn’t like the hire and really thought we’d be getting Stoops from Florida. When the hire was announced I figured Stoops didn’t want the job. Finding out later that wasn’t the case really pissed me off. I’ve been ready for years for change. Enough of the boring ass offensive football I’ve been watching for most of the 26 years he’s been here.
Nice try? Banks played really well against Michigan. Iowa should have beat them yet Kirk went back to McCann.
I could be wrong but I swear it was the 2001 Michigan game.
Sorry bro. It was at Wisconsin. My dad and I who weren’t sitting together were there. Talked about it after and have since. My uncle is a Huge Wisky guy which is why we were there and remember.
Not true at all. Most people posting are Hawkeye fans and not Ferentz fans. But it sounds like you are a Ferentz fan and that is "CRAZY".
The crazy part of the Hayes aspiration is the likelihood now of adding a bunch more losses before achieving it. Care less about the losses for him, but sad for the team.
i'm almost positive i saw a stat that JVB ended up the 14th ranked QB in the B1G that year... there were only 12 teams in the conf at the time. that means 2 backups had better numbers than our guy who took every single snap. wth?
Yep. Petras should have been benched, but ‘he gave us the best chance to win’.
I thought the winky guy was a clue it was a joke. So serious we are, hmmm?
Or single threat QBs.
Probably him sticking with a horrible hire as OC for years while the offense became a national joke.
loss to an average Cyclone team at home this year. Should have been 20-0 at half and game over. Two opportunities with first and goal from the one and two field goals to show for it. Season over
That is mine…I can stomach the over top conservatism and even NEVER playing QB2, but the whole BF hire and then refusing to fire him did it for me. His little pouty press conference after the firing was not a good look for him either…. Much like The Office show, he had a good run - now don’t ruin it by overextending your stay….like The Office did.😉
2014. I'm confident in saying no other major college program in the country would have retained KF after that season. 2015 was a gift from CJ Beathard and the schedule makers. And then, of course, KF later named his unqualified son to be OC and then topped that stupidity by adding QB coach. KF has won some games. True enough. He's also played an embarrassingly weak nonconference schedule and benefitted from the generally weak Big Ten West. Give him his gold-and-black watch and send him on his way to count the millions he has safely stashed under his mattress.
It's always been troubling to know time and time again he chooses the wrong qb, starting way back with Brad banks. It's happened at least 5 times, and sticks to it to the bitter end.
the combination of bumbling the Stoops hire, and giving Tom Davis a lame duck year resulting in zero recruiting, was an amazing stretch for our AD. somehow he kept failing up after that.
KF and the passing game as well as his stubbornness of sticking with a QB reminds me of the scene in Tin Cup where Kevin Costner continues to hit the ball in the lake and refuses to take the drop and continuing to fail over and over until he gets it over and in the hole. That is KF saying, "I told you so!"
That was my moment - that PSU game - and actually that whole season. I believe that season Iowa was the only FBS school to play one QB every snap all year. and no matter how poorly Vandenberg played or how bad we were getting beat by PSU, the backup never got to see one snap. Incredible.
