Iowa football: future schedule updates

[IowaHawk1994]

Def not as cold as some of the Big Ten schools, but November in Eugene is damp and cold. I'm sure they'd survive at Iowa.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a late September/early October game though.

play in in a blizzard and the quacks are going to win next year game by 40 ... imagine if they played this year, worse yet in Eugene 55-3 type game vs that soft weak no talent D

 

[kceasthawk]

Huh?

Its just more of him talking out his ass like always...

 

[kceasthawk]

Wanna bet?

Just more revisionist history that floods this forum. For the record it was Fry who put into place the "play one patsy, one Mac level team, and ISU ".(which at the time wasn't even a good MAC level team). The early season top ten teams on the schedule were mostly scheduled BEFORE Fry got to Iowa.....

 

[swihawk]

Debbie has the sisters of the blind.

 

[kceasthawk]

Back in Fry’s early years (when most of those teams were on the schedule), Iowa was the “patsy” opponent the bigger schools used to pad their record. Fans always forget that.

I also believe some of those were already on the schedule before Fry arrived. In fact, he complained about it at the time, and as soon as he could he made sure the non-conference games were not as tough.

Exactly. Fry was the one who changed the scheduling and dropped all those top 10-15 level teams from the Non con schedule. Same exact thing that Bill Snyder did when he left Iowa and went to KSU and he used Fry's blueprint for scheduling and marketing. He even hired the same guy who designed the TigerHawk logo to redesign the Wildcat on their helmets.

 

[MeetTheFerentzes]

Those are the kinds of nonconference schedules Iowa played in the 1960s, 1970s, and into Hayden Fry's tenure. In Fry's first three seasons his nonconference opponents were the following:

1979 (Hayden's first season at Iowa)
@ #3 Oklahoma, L, 21-6
#7 Nebraska, L, 24-21
Iowa State, W, 30-14

1980
@ #6 Nebraska, L, 57-0
Iowa State, L, 10-7
Arizona, L, 5-3

1981 ( Big Ten title and Rose Bowl)
#7 Nebraska, W, 10-7
@ Iowa State, L, 23-12
#6 UCLA, W, 20-7

No Albany. No UNI. No Florida Atlantic. No Northern Illinois.

During Fry's 20-year tenure the Hawkeyes played about 20 top 20 teams in the nonconference. In 26 years, KF has played about three.

It's true that Fry said Iowa was crazy to schedule two top 20 teams every year. Instead, he said he wanted a schedule that would include (1) a difficult opponent, (2) a 50-50 opponent, and (3) a cupcake. That makes sense. KF has taken it a step further and feasted on at least two cupcakes every year. Albany and UMass anyone? And watch out for UNI. You can't count on blocking a FG--twice--to win by one point every time. Or maybe you can if you're KF . . . LOL

BTW: Sorry about presenting facts and evidence. I realize fantasy and bias are the way to go these days.

LOL at 1981. Could you imagine this board if Iowa beat two top-10 non-conference opponents.....and lost to unranked Iowa St by double-digits?

 

[MeetTheFerentzes]

Just more revisionist history that floods this forum. For the record it was Fry who put into place the "play one patsy, one Mac level team, and ISU ".(which at the time wasn't even a good MAC level team). The early season top ten teams on the schedule were mostly scheduled BEFORE Fry got to Iowa.....

Exactly. Fry was the one who changed the scheduling and dropped all those top 10-15 level teams from the Non con schedule. Same exact thing that Bill Snyder did when he left Iowa and went to KSU and he used Fry's blueprint for scheduling and marketing. He even hired the same guy who designed the TigerHawk logo to redesign the Wildcat on their helmets.

You seem pretty good at revisionist history yourself.

In Hayden's last 15 seasons, he played "one patsy, one MAC and ISU" exactly 4 times. 2 other seasons were similar quality without a MAC team. The other NINE seasons he played what everyone would consider a major conference or independent team in addition to ISU.

 

[jonesy5960]

Its just more of him talking out his ass like always...

 

[uihawk82]

Those are the kinds of nonconference schedules Iowa played in the 1960s, 1970s, and into Hayden Fry's tenure. In Fry's first three seasons his nonconference opponents were the following:

1979 (Hayden's first season at Iowa)
@ #3 Oklahoma, L, 21-6
#7 Nebraska, L, 24-21
Iowa State, W, 30-14

1980
@ #6 Nebraska, L, 57-0
Iowa State, L, 10-7
Arizona, L, 5-3

1981 ( Big Ten title and Rose Bowl)
#7 Nebraska, W, 10-7
@ Iowa State, L, 23-12
#6 UCLA, W, 20-7

No Albany. No UNI. No Florida Atlantic. No Northern Illinois.

During Fry's 20-year tenure the Hawkeyes played about 20 top 20 teams in the nonconference. In 26 years, KF has played about three.

It's true that Fry said Iowa was crazy to schedule two top 20 teams every year. Instead, he said he wanted a schedule that would include (1) a difficult opponent, (2) a 50-50 opponent, and (3) a cupcake. That makes sense. KF has taken it a step further and feasted on at least two cupcakes every year. Albany and UMass anyone? And watch out for UNI. You can't count on blocking a FG--twice--to win by one point every time. Or maybe you can if you're KF . . . LOL

BTW: Sorry about presenting facts and evidence. I realize fantasy and bias are the way to go these days.

The hawks played a very tough intersectional, coast to coast, non-conference schedule for many decades.

Besides playing Notre Dame going way back into the '30s or so, the hawks played some tough Syracuse and Penn St teams going way back. Evy had so much success and he played a lot of tough teams.

And fans loved watching those great games. Growing up in Des Moines in the 50's and 60's I was much more attracted to listening and reading about Iowa games than Iowa St because Iowa St did not play the tough non - conf teams.