I stopped reading after Iowa women's basketball will remain boring. You can hate the women's game but they are fun to watch.
IowaLaw's Unpopular (but True) Predictions for 2022
- Thread starter IowasLaw
- Start date
People who discount defensive/ST scores and FTs as points on the scoreboard are funny. Not in a ha-ha way though. More like a fat kid with a hula-hoop kinda way.
But here is the thing. You can hate the entire game of women's basketball and leave it at that. I whole-heartedly disagree but not the point.
Anyone who watches Iowa knows we get up and down, have phenominal old-school posts who just score and score and score, have shooters (more so incoming with McCabe) and CAITLIN CLARK who is so entertaining. Iowa basketball is not boring to anyone who actually watches the women's game.
I only have one prediction. IowaLaw will remain an unhappy troll.
My prediction... (I'm assuming IowaLaw is a lawyer):
If his arguments in the courtroom are as lame as his arguments on this board, you'd as well flush your money down the toilet as hire him.
If his arguments in the courtroom are as lame as his arguments on this board, you'd as well flush your money down the toilet as hire him.
The sad part is, there are parts of his postgame reviews that I think are solid. But he trends towards the negative in all things, and every Kirk and Brian do is by default bad seemingly.
Right but a lot of people discount the impact those can have on offensive stats. Just think in those first 6 games how often we started with short fields off turnovers/special teams. We scored a lot off this situations to start with, but it does fill up the stat sheet.
While the defense remained stout, the second half of the season saw them forcing fewer turnovers, resulting in worse field position for an offense that was increasingly broken as the season went on.
If they are special teams or defensive scores, the offense doesn't get the ball...
Of course. I’m just also talking about when the offense starts at the 40 or better due to turnovers or special teams.
Maybe Ferentz will be nice enough to put him in at the end of a blowout with the 2nd string OL to hand the ball off and then claim he played the backup but the starter is still his guy.
Ferentz antics fool some of you guys but not all of us.
What can be said about someone who talks about himself in the third person?
When predictions are made, they can be neither true nor false (unless Nostradamus is lying about what he really thinks).
So when Clark is shooting 8 to 10 feet behind the arc and draining them that is not exciting? Why the hell can’t the men do that?
No one is allowed to except Jordan Bohannon because it is a low percentage shot. Iowa Basketball isn’t Grinnell basketball….and in case you missed it JBo was hitting shots like that for the last 5 seasons.
A) easy to tell by your completely negative posts you are a Democrat.
B) you're wrong on every point
C) since u have penis envy of coaches sons, I suggest therapy to work thru your daddy issues.
If A is true I might have to rethink my life choices…
IowasLaw does sound like a woman hater, so I'm not surprised.....
He's doing this trendy thing in social media nowadays where he makes comments and predictions with an intentionally negative slant and undertone so that it comes off as more "controversial" and "hot take-ish", which means more of a chance for debate and arguing and sucking people in so to speak.
There's YouTube channels like CinemaSins and Nerdrotic where their whole schtick is to take stuff like movies and TV shows and tell you why it sucks and that you're wrong for thinking otherwise ("even though you're entitled to your opinion", they'll add), even if they're being facetious about the things they're saying.
For example, they'll criticize a scene in a movie that you would think is universally loved and find some clever-in-their-mind way to provide a negative spin on the scene and why you've been looking at it the wrong way this whole time. In Nerdrotic's case, it will usually be about how the creators of the film are trying to push a woke agenda in the scene.
This is essentially what @IowasLaw does. It's all intentional, including the lack of responses by him in his own thread.
Hey, I think Cinemasins is hilarious. It’s kinda funny to see people who get upset when they release a new video and think it’s meant as a serious review.
Weeeelllll, not all of the last 5 seasons. There was a significant stretch where he couldn't throw it in the ocean.
People like honesty. Just not too much honesty.
Hence Iowalaws unpopularity.
Hence Iowalaws unpopularity.
Yeah he's so honest that he might as well be lying.................................................
I think his real identity is…..Colin Cowherd. Because, he’s just offering up an opinion to get attention which is Cowterd’s shtick. Headlines that “shock” you into a click and reasoning that boarders on just aggravating the masses for replies.
That's because he is a cyclone troll.
Many are asking, "when will IowaLaw, also known as Lawstradomis, put together his predictions for 2023?" After all, it was uncanny how spot on he was in his 2022 prognostication and has been known to pick up on the subtle rifts in the Hawkeye universe.
-QB Regression. It happened. Petras was returning for his 3rd year as starter following a 10 win season and touting his attendence at the Payton Manning passing camp / his parents were paying for him to work with a professional passing coach. Most saw improvement in the works. IowaLaw wasn't buying it. He predicted that even though Pro Football Focus had Petras ranked the worst returning starter in college football, Kirk and crew would not dare seek out help in the transfer portal like any other coach would. Sure enough, they did not, and Hawk fans once again witnessed more QB regression. Petras started every game and finished with his worst statistical season yet. He improved in zero areas (despite the above privileges not afforded to most QBs) and dragged down the team with him.
-Too Much PT for McCaffery Boys. It happened. Hawkeye basketball was a Top 10 team led by Keegan Murray, but IowaLaw noted that Fran seems to love playing his kids regardless of their performance and has a blind spot toward guys on the bench. Sure enough, The McCaffery boys saw their minutes increase, with Patrick leading the nation last year in out of control missed layups, causing tension in the locker room, and Toussaint bolted from the team despite being the starting point guard.
-Wrestling Decline. It happened. Hawkeye wrestling was ranked #1 at the time of the OP. They were defending national champs and had a loaded roster of 6 year seniors. Sure enough, the squad struggled mightily, got blown out in both the Big 10 (finishing 3rd) and national championships. Worse yet, even with Spencer Lee using his extra year of eligibility this year, the Hawks just barely squeaked by lowly Iowa State in a dual meet while Penn State continues to rise. The poor recruiting/focus on in-state recruits vs. recruiting Pennsylvania and national wrestlers was obvious.
-Women's BBall Still Boring. It happened. The Iowa women were riding high, receiving praise from NBA stars, were ranked in the Top 10, and were playing on national tv. IowaLaw said they would still be boring despite the undue hype. Sure enough, their super star media darling continues to shoot worse from 3 than the worst 3 point shooter on the men's team. The rest of the team proved to be pretty average and incredibly unathletic compared to their peers. They were bounced from the NCAA tourney early and this year they started ranked in the Top 5, then proceeded to lose to every opponent with a pulse. Hype without substance is just hype.
-Labbas Won't Play a Down. It happened. Many hoped he would be the savior of the Iowa QBs room. Kirk even said "there will be an open QB competition," and Joey was getting the majority of media buzz after starring on the scout team. IowaLaw saw through it and predicted he'd never take a snap. Sure enough, another season is in the books. While the 2nd and 3rd stringers played at every other position, ol' Brian couldn't even give the kid the courtesy of a single snap. Zero passes thrown in 2 years on campus. Shocker to some, not to those who know the program. The kid will get a chance in the bowl game, but only out of default and against the coach's wishes.
-Brian Will Keep Failing Upward. It happened. Most thought it was outlandish when IowaLaw predicted Brian would not only keep his job after leading the nation's 117th rated offense, but also receive a raise on top of it. Sure enough, that is exactly what happened. Brian picked up a bigger raise following his documented failures than most Iowans make at their jobs in a year, got a promotion, and proceeded to lead the offense straight into the ground.
As a result of this profound accuracy, and by popular demand, IowaLaw will indeed look into his crystal ball and make his 2023 prognostications in the coming weeks.
---@HawkeyeInCentralIowa "How much does everyone want to bet that he’s wrong on all these takes?" Jan 17, 2022.
-QB Regression. It happened. Petras was returning for his 3rd year as starter following a 10 win season and touting his attendence at the Payton Manning passing camp / his parents were paying for him to work with a professional passing coach. Most saw improvement in the works. IowaLaw wasn't buying it. He predicted that even though Pro Football Focus had Petras ranked the worst returning starter in college football, Kirk and crew would not dare seek out help in the transfer portal like any other coach would. Sure enough, they did not, and Hawk fans once again witnessed more QB regression. Petras started every game and finished with his worst statistical season yet. He improved in zero areas (despite the above privileges not afforded to most QBs) and dragged down the team with him.
-Too Much PT for McCaffery Boys. It happened. Hawkeye basketball was a Top 10 team led by Keegan Murray, but IowaLaw noted that Fran seems to love playing his kids regardless of their performance and has a blind spot toward guys on the bench. Sure enough, The McCaffery boys saw their minutes increase, with Patrick leading the nation last year in out of control missed layups, causing tension in the locker room, and Toussaint bolted from the team despite being the starting point guard.
-Wrestling Decline. It happened. Hawkeye wrestling was ranked #1 at the time of the OP. They were defending national champs and had a loaded roster of 6 year seniors. Sure enough, the squad struggled mightily, got blown out in both the Big 10 (finishing 3rd) and national championships. Worse yet, even with Spencer Lee using his extra year of eligibility this year, the Hawks just barely squeaked by lowly Iowa State in a dual meet while Penn State continues to rise. The poor recruiting/focus on in-state recruits vs. recruiting Pennsylvania and national wrestlers was obvious.
-Women's BBall Still Boring. It happened. The Iowa women were riding high, receiving praise from NBA stars, were ranked in the Top 10, and were playing on national tv. IowaLaw said they would still be boring despite the undue hype. Sure enough, their super star media darling continues to shoot worse from 3 than the worst 3 point shooter on the men's team. The rest of the team proved to be pretty average and incredibly unathletic compared to their peers. They were bounced from the NCAA tourney early and this year they started ranked in the Top 5, then proceeded to lose to every opponent with a pulse. Hype without substance is just hype.
-Labbas Won't Play a Down. It happened. Many hoped he would be the savior of the Iowa QBs room. Kirk even said "there will be an open QB competition," and Joey was getting the majority of media buzz after starring on the scout team. IowaLaw saw through it and predicted he'd never take a snap. Sure enough, another season is in the books. While the 2nd and 3rd stringers played at every other position, ol' Brian couldn't even give the kid the courtesy of a single snap. Zero passes thrown in 2 years on campus. Shocker to some, not to those who know the program. The kid will get a chance in the bowl game, but only out of default and against the coach's wishes.
-Brian Will Keep Failing Upward. It happened. Most thought it was outlandish when IowaLaw predicted Brian would not only keep his job after leading the nation's 117th rated offense, but also receive a raise on top of it. Sure enough, that is exactly what happened. Brian picked up a bigger raise following his documented failures than most Iowans make at their jobs in a year, got a promotion, and proceeded to lead the offense straight into the ground.
As a result of this profound accuracy, and by popular demand, IowaLaw will indeed look into his crystal ball and make his 2023 prognostications in the coming weeks.
---@HawkeyeInCentralIowa "How much does everyone want to bet that he’s wrong on all these takes?" Jan 17, 2022.
Last edited:
Popular demand = voices in your head.
Well done, Law. You’ve just acquired a new fan.
there is still time for labas to not play one down: if KF chooses may
Actually you predicted Labas would not throw a pass. And you spelled his name correctly at that time.
At minimum the slaw went like .800
Maybe - No - Duh - No - No - Don't Know. You're somehow proud of these predictions?
I haven't been a fan of this Iowalaw fella....I just get a little weirded out by the whole 3rd person schtick. That said....he hit on enough of his predictions that I will in fact tune in to the 2023 edition when it's released.
I'll call a moron a moron when they are in fact clearly a moron. I'll also give kudos when a guy, in my opinion, nails it. Well done Law.
I'll call a moron a moron when they are in fact clearly a moron. I'll also give kudos when a guy, in my opinion, nails it. Well done Law.
Similar threads
