It’s actually very healthy. Letting things you don’t contribute to or impact in any way, outside of screaming at a game which is minimal, is a sign of emotional maturity.
I watch every game start to finish just because as an alumnus, it’s part of who I am. The first thing I did when I visited the campus my senior year of high school was head to Kinnick and watch Iowa-Michigan. I just can’t seem to shake that. But I have little to no emotional investment in the games’ outcomes anymore.
Been in the land of apathy for a long time now. Not just Iowa but with sports in general
Only thing that kept us in it was all their WRs being out.
Oh that’s BS against a team like Mizzou. That wasn’t Ohio State out there. We have plenty of athletes. We pushed their d line all over the field.
I knew they'd find a way to lose after that punt. Rinse and repeat for Iowa football.
This is why I've always laughed at the people who brush off the shortcomings of the offense and even the defense by pulling out the "turnover" card. Sure, the team looks great getting a bunch of fumbles and INTs but there is no possible way to control that. It's basically luck.Expecting the turnover that never came.
Last time I truly thought Iowa had a great team was 2009.
Turnovers aren’t luck, particularly interceptions. They are combination of a good pass rush and DBs with good anticipation and awareness. This defense had neither virtue and we blitzed very little this year as well because our safeties were piss poor as well.
Yes, obviously you need awareness and anticipation as you say but even the most disciplined defense needs either the QB to make a bad throw or a tipped ball which is definitely luck. Very few INTs are a defender genuinely making an amazing play on the ball, especially at the college level.
Great coaching by PP he knew MIZZU would drop 15 wide open balls
Does PP even recruit anymore? that D was soft slow and small … used to the soft pass coverage and getting ran over by the better teams but this year even bad teams like UCLA and Nebby did it
Exactly. I stopped caring long ago. I never thought that would happen. That's why I hate the man in charge. The only enjoyment I get at this point is laughing my ass off at the airhead trying to run a program. That's why I watch the games now... for the laughs.
Kirk is an arrogant SOB at this point and I despise him for not putting a competent passing game together. It’s a joke. He hasn’t accomplished anything of importance with the program since 2010 Orange Bowl win. He remains behind the times.
That is his only achievement. Shared conference titles are meaningless. If he was coaching an All-Madden team against pre-schoolers, he'd make sure he lost that, too.
Nah, I don't even go to sporting events anymore, unless it's hockey.
This is where I’ve been with Iowa football … hell, even basketball … for several years. We will never be elite like a Michigan or Ohio State or Oregon or Alabama in football or Duke or North Carolina or any of the monster programs in hoops. We’re Iowa. We don’t have the natural area to draw from for top athletes and NIL has only further separated the big boys from the rest of us. Iowa is NOT a big boy program.
Oh come on now. That's totally ridiculous. Say what you want about KF, but he is probably undefeated against preschoolers.
