Iowa Kid's Day

[OutbackBowl2017]

Well, at least until Monday when they resume practice again.

They're just mostly dead.

Iowa offense has been on life support going on four years now. Hope they don’t flat line this season with the defense and special teams it has once again. Ugh.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Iowa offense has been on life support going on four years now. Hope they don’t flat line this season with the defense and special teams it has once again. Ugh.

That's the big concern with this team. We are a couple players short, as per f***ing usual, of being a truly complete team as that never seems to line up thanks to graduations or players leaving early, or just simple recruiting misses.........but we still have enough there to be elite in 2 of the 3 phases of the game.

But our schedule is deceptively difficult enough that we could have another 2010 type of season, especially considering our faults on offense, this being a brand new offense with a new OC, and us lacking any real standout draftable athletes on that side of the ball outside of Lachey, who is coming off a foot injury.

A wasted 2010 7-5, 8-4 type of season would be disastrous for Kirk and Co. especially considering how poor recruiting appears to be going right now.

It all falls on the offense not taking an entire season to get figured out while sacrificing multiple games in the W/L column in the process.

And that will actually be harder than what Iowa did last year with not having much of an offense to speak of, because we add tough teams and every team we faced last year that is still on our schedule is going to be better in 2024.

And given what we're losing after this year, this is quite literally Kirk's last chance at a successful season by Iowa's standards, which in its own right is a little depressing because this is nowhere near a top 10 TEAM. We just have enough in those aforementioned 2 of 3 phases to be capable of getting to the new CFP, which would be everything to this program to keep it from disappearing off the map going into this new future of CFB that the idiot f***ing powers that be are shoving us into.


But to correct your above comment, Iowa's offense was on life support in 2021. It died a horrible death in 2022 and 2023 was just the "in memoriam" season.

2024 is the first attempt to resurrect it. We just need to hope beyond hope that it doesn't come with too heavy a sacrifice................

 

[BonzoFury]

2024 is the first attempt to resurrect it. We just need to hope beyond hope that it doesn't come with too heavy a sacrifice................

Which would be what? You're not going with "a good offense might hurt the defense" angle are you?

I'm all for tossing a Freshman virgin off the top of Slater Hall if that's what it takes.

 

[2D_]

This is the excuse we're going to hear. There's always an excuse for the offense. Phil never needs one.

Install a f***ing offense that guys can learn and execute. Recruit talent to make the plays. 25 years in you should have it figured out.

This is a mental midget take.