Soooo many posters here keep bringing this up. I did right after the game as it was depressing. But football like most sports is a game of averages. You play much of the game and you drop passes, miss passes, miss tackles, etc then all of a sudden you make four or five plays in one drive and you score.
How does a team make a long drive with a lot of plays. First off Iowa's defense snuffed a lot of their plays but ISU probably had to make about 4 or 5 third downs and I cant remember if they made any 4th downs on that drive. Norm and Phil Parker's philosophy is to stop every inch and make them snap the ball a lot as they will screw up eventually. It didnt happen that drive, the only TD of the game for them.
But they were in 4 down mode late in the game, a lot of teams become much more dangerous when they go into 4 down mode. Just ask Kirk about some of the comebacks by his team and against his team by let's say several times by jNW late in games (Thorson still pisses me off as does 2005 in Evanston).
Once in awhile the other team strings together enough good plays to move the chains, etc etc,
I dont hear anyone on this board still being amazed that the hawks could drive it on MSU with a minute to go in 2009 after not scoring even one TD up to that point. That 2009 team had playmakers and moxie if that is what you want to call it.
How does a team make a long drive with a lot of plays. First off Iowa's defense snuffed a lot of their plays but ISU probably had to make about 4 or 5 third downs and I cant remember if they made any 4th downs on that drive. Norm and Phil Parker's philosophy is to stop every inch and make them snap the ball a lot as they will screw up eventually. It didnt happen that drive, the only TD of the game for them.
But they were in 4 down mode late in the game, a lot of teams become much more dangerous when they go into 4 down mode. Just ask Kirk about some of the comebacks by his team and against his team by let's say several times by jNW late in games (Thorson still pisses me off as does 2005 in Evanston).
Once in awhile the other team strings together enough good plays to move the chains, etc etc,
I dont hear anyone on this board still being amazed that the hawks could drive it on MSU with a minute to go in 2009 after not scoring even one TD up to that point. That 2009 team had playmakers and moxie if that is what you want to call it.