Comes in view. I think it would make sense to review what the “real” problem is between the two distinct sides. Of course there are off-shoots, but for the most part there are people like me, Heat, Nu2u, Soybean, IChawk24, etc…there are obviously many more who have a similar line of thought to me.
I too have been sad and frustrated by our inconsistencies in recent year (I’ve never been bothered by our recruiting incidentally) and being completely honest..I wouldn’t have cared so much had KF moved on. Sometimes you can be a great coach, manager, owner, leader and still not be able to get back on top. I did not however think he got lazy or “fat” or the game had passed him by. Speaking of lazy that’s what those thoughts come from. Lazy unimaginative opinions from infertile minds.
But once again we were losing and it WAS frustrating. We can all agree on that, but here is where the road divides. These are just some comments that are regularly made that have zero to very little merit. I can even sometimes see how it gets started but a little perspective and investigation quickly undoes the faulty belief….
An old favorite even perpetuated by Jon Miller, Dolph, Eddy Podolak, etc…Mark Weisman was too slow to run the zone stretch. The Truth is Weisman went on to run what would have been one of the top 5 to 10 best 10 yard sprints for Rbers at the combine. He lost steam at the top end, but short area he was fast. I told anyone who would listen he was plenty fast to the hole. What he lacked was vision, wiggle and cut back ability. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t still the best option on that team, especially considering the injuries to others. What people seem to miss is that play gets stuffed out in the NFL constantly with penetration just like it did us. Doesn’t mean it’s not a good play nor that they don’t still run it a ton. We didn’t block it well, end of story.
Here are some others that have been repeatedly refuted but still get repeated….
KF rarely unseats an experienced player, really?! I’ll wager it has now happened 20-30 times plus. Just because people are convinced it should have happened at other times is purely conjecture and Ill happily trust the professionals to make those decisions.
We are too conservative and don’t throw down field enough, really?? The cool thing about the BTN is replays. YouTube as well for that matter& I have to tell you, if I listened to the critic I’d likely believe it. Iowa runs one of those offenses that seem slower paced than it really is. Call it sneaky of you will. After watching many, not one, but many of these replays, we threw down field waaayyyy more than people apparently cared to remember. We didn’t complete a ton for sure, but they were thrown….
Here is a goody, Greg Davis sucks…Hmmm, well here is what I have to say to the Texas and Iowa fans perpetuating that myth. He has coached at a high level for 40 years, put at least two QB’s in the NFL and won an NC. That doesn’t happen to bad coaches. But hell, we didn’t like KOK either.
We need to play our game breakers whether they fumble, can block, run routes, etc….never mind those guys don’t play anywhere else but hey they should here.
Or how about our Lbers are slow, these aren’t even D1 caliber athletes on their march to the NFL…The Truth is I have watched and followed Iowa combine and Pro days for 15 years now. We are rarely slow, in particular we haven’t fielded a slow Lber by NFL standards unless we were 3 or 4 deep in 15 years. Incidentally this gets said at almost every position.
Or the we can’t recruit very well, even considering we have placed about 25 2-star/walk-ons in the NFL. Here is the deal, that’s good recruiting. You recruit what you see…they saw talent and that’s what they got.
How about we need to blitz more, even though the replays showed every blitz we ran we got torched. I think they mean we need to blitz better…?!
There are more but here is the thing. Every fan on here that has called me or these others condescending, egotistical, arrogant, pompous or a know it all, shares the exact same trait. The difference being they see things that are easily refuted and they get mad about it.
Here is the rub, I hate to lose, I’ll wager they do to…Coaching or leading is very tough and easy to criticize, but honestly the Internet critic isn’t really very aware of what is really going on. It is very tough to get 100 men or even 12 going in the same direction.
I too have been sad and frustrated by our inconsistencies in recent year (I’ve never been bothered by our recruiting incidentally) and being completely honest..I wouldn’t have cared so much had KF moved on. Sometimes you can be a great coach, manager, owner, leader and still not be able to get back on top. I did not however think he got lazy or “fat” or the game had passed him by. Speaking of lazy that’s what those thoughts come from. Lazy unimaginative opinions from infertile minds.
But once again we were losing and it WAS frustrating. We can all agree on that, but here is where the road divides. These are just some comments that are regularly made that have zero to very little merit. I can even sometimes see how it gets started but a little perspective and investigation quickly undoes the faulty belief….
An old favorite even perpetuated by Jon Miller, Dolph, Eddy Podolak, etc…Mark Weisman was too slow to run the zone stretch. The Truth is Weisman went on to run what would have been one of the top 5 to 10 best 10 yard sprints for Rbers at the combine. He lost steam at the top end, but short area he was fast. I told anyone who would listen he was plenty fast to the hole. What he lacked was vision, wiggle and cut back ability. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t still the best option on that team, especially considering the injuries to others. What people seem to miss is that play gets stuffed out in the NFL constantly with penetration just like it did us. Doesn’t mean it’s not a good play nor that they don’t still run it a ton. We didn’t block it well, end of story.
Here are some others that have been repeatedly refuted but still get repeated….
KF rarely unseats an experienced player, really?! I’ll wager it has now happened 20-30 times plus. Just because people are convinced it should have happened at other times is purely conjecture and Ill happily trust the professionals to make those decisions.
We are too conservative and don’t throw down field enough, really?? The cool thing about the BTN is replays. YouTube as well for that matter& I have to tell you, if I listened to the critic I’d likely believe it. Iowa runs one of those offenses that seem slower paced than it really is. Call it sneaky of you will. After watching many, not one, but many of these replays, we threw down field waaayyyy more than people apparently cared to remember. We didn’t complete a ton for sure, but they were thrown….
Here is a goody, Greg Davis sucks…Hmmm, well here is what I have to say to the Texas and Iowa fans perpetuating that myth. He has coached at a high level for 40 years, put at least two QB’s in the NFL and won an NC. That doesn’t happen to bad coaches. But hell, we didn’t like KOK either.
We need to play our game breakers whether they fumble, can block, run routes, etc….never mind those guys don’t play anywhere else but hey they should here.
Or how about our Lbers are slow, these aren’t even D1 caliber athletes on their march to the NFL…The Truth is I have watched and followed Iowa combine and Pro days for 15 years now. We are rarely slow, in particular we haven’t fielded a slow Lber by NFL standards unless we were 3 or 4 deep in 15 years. Incidentally this gets said at almost every position.
Or the we can’t recruit very well, even considering we have placed about 25 2-star/walk-ons in the NFL. Here is the deal, that’s good recruiting. You recruit what you see…they saw talent and that’s what they got.
How about we need to blitz more, even though the replays showed every blitz we ran we got torched. I think they mean we need to blitz better…?!
There are more but here is the thing. Every fan on here that has called me or these others condescending, egotistical, arrogant, pompous or a know it all, shares the exact same trait. The difference being they see things that are easily refuted and they get mad about it.
Here is the rub, I hate to lose, I’ll wager they do to…Coaching or leading is very tough and easy to criticize, but honestly the Internet critic isn’t really very aware of what is really going on. It is very tough to get 100 men or even 12 going in the same direction.
