I still maintain the biggest problem with Iowa football is not the overall strategy, the playcalling or Brian - it is having a shitty ass offensive line.
And that was also Tim Polasek's last year. I would love to be a fly-on-the-wall during the coach's meetings or listen to the headset conversation after failed play call after failed play call.
Recruiting (high school or portal) misses and player development failures are on the coaches. Once you have an OL which demonstrates incompetence executing what you want to do, you need to pivot to something they can do. If the zone blocking scheme at a high level is the equivalent of playing a complicated sonata on a piano, have them play chopsticks. Once they can do that, maybe have them play when the saints go marching in, and if they can do that, the entertainer. Having them keep trying to play the most difficult music when they lack the talent to do so is on the coaches.
What is infuriating is if Iowa just put Brian back to coaching o-line and brought in a creative young offensive coordinator, I bet you could turn this thing around in one season (maybe not to super awesome offense, but at least not embarrassing bottom-of-all-of-college-football bad.)
I would be SHOCKED if Brian was demoted and stayed with the team. That just doesn't happen. The way I see this playing out one of three ways: (1) the status quo; (2) Kirk finds a way to save face and ships Brian off somewhere in the NFL where the job would not be seen as a demotion; or (3) the new AD fires Brian for not meeting production standards, and then Kirk quits.
Sadly, it's starting to remind me of Hayden's final years where he supposedly was calling plays (DRAW!) and using an outdated system (QB taking 8 steps back)
We just want to be there for you guys.
I believe that was an old wooden ship from the Civil War era.
Iowa is the cure for demoralized players. We freely offer up all sorts of momentum and good vibes.
The more time you spend watching Iowa football, the more you realize how clueless Kirk and his staff are on offense.
