Nick Shiminek

[myteamcanbeatupyourteam]

Out of the 112 completions Willies has 8 of those......not exactly lighting the world on fire, but still contributing. Don't get me wrong I know he had/has ability and I wish him the best.....but it is beyond me that people "go to bat" for him when he quit midseason.....In all my years as a Hawkeye fan I have never, especially a contributing player, seen a player just pack up and quit in the middle of a season. It reminds me of a 10 year old who takes his ball and walks off the court pouting because he doesn't get his way, just cowardly and childish.

Aaron Greving?

 

[bagdropper]

To an earlier point, James Cleveland is another name to add to the list, at least collegiately. Transferred from Iowa and went on to be one of the top targets for some very good Houston teams.

True, but that was a seriously pass-happy offense that skews numbers. I don't believe Cleveland ever played an NFL snap. Fine college receiver for them for sure though, and he's one I would have liked to see finish his career at Iowa.

Shimonek transferred cause he wasn't up to the task of learning Iowa's playbook - he said so himself. He transferred to an offense that has what, 10 plays?

Now, if Shimonek transferred to a school of equal strength as Iowa running a similar offense and then thrived as a starter, yeah, you have my attention. But otherwise, I fail to see the significance attached to him lighting up a Kansas team that may very well be the 120th best team in college football right now, most likely playing mostly 2nd stringers at best.

Texas Tech lights up lesser programs on a yearly basis, yet I fail to remember them ever winning anything of significance once they put in this offense in around the time their head coach played there. And for those with short memories, Kingsbury led TTU to a 19-16 loss against Iowa I believe in the 2001 Alamo Bowl.

Good for him...but let's see TTU actually win something big before we anoit them, or him.

 

[Eternal Return]

Great! So people can only come up with one QB that has improved into his senior year under Kirk Ferentz, but those people don't see that as a problem.

This topic comes up so often it's ridiculous. The QBs under Feretnz who played before senior year:

Tate: didn't get worse, had to deal with injuries.

Stanzi: Major improvement senior year.

VandeBerg: Horrible team his senior year.

Rudock: transferred before senior year

Beatherd: Still 2/3+ of season to play, the jury is still out.

In other words, lighten up and quit bringing the same stupid complaint up over and over and over again. It's been beaten to death and the question has been answered the way I just answered it time and time again. Also, do your own firkin research next time instead of saying "That's all anyone can come up with?!" Know your firkin Hawkeye history and quit wasting bandwidth.

 

[WORTHYWISH]

This topic comes up so often it's ridiculous. The QBs under Feretnz who played before senior year:

Tate: didn't get worse, had to deal with injuries.

Stanzi: Major improvement senior year.

VandeBerg: Horrible team his senior year.

Rudock: transferred before senior year

Beatherd: Still 2/3+ of season to play, the jury is still out.

In other words, lighten up and quit bringing the same stupid complaint up over and over and over again. It's been beaten to death and the question has been answered the way I just answered it time and time again. Also, do your own firkin research next time instead of saying "That's all anyone can come up with?!" Know your firkin Hawkeye history and quit wasting bandwidth.

Lol. So you agree with me. Good

 

[milehighhawkeye24]

Lol. So you agree with me. Good

Why no reply to my post earlier where I pretty much disproved your statement with year by year examples? Let's see your proof to back this claim

 

[RocknRollface]

Stanzi was really good his Senior year. People are equating the team not performing up to expectations with him not doing as well. It was quite the opposite. Stanzi was great. What hurt that teams was the defense not being nearly as good and the break down of the RBs and Oline throughout the season.

The first 3/4 of that season Stanzi was good, the last 1/4 was probably his worst play since sophomore seaon.

NW, Minnesota, OSU, bowl game, really bad.

 

[MadDogC]

Slung it around pretty good..Kansas not good

Their offense is fun to watch..curious how they will do vs a TCU Oklahoma defense

Don't think either TCU or OU has their typical defense this year. Our backup CB's are better than OU's...

 

[Cougar63]

Wasn't James Cleveland in the credit card debacle?

Edit: Googled it, it was drugs.