*****Official Iowa @ Michigan State Game Thread*****
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The Joe Moore Award is the Nobel Peace Prize of sports. The OL is getting manhandled and half the time they aren't blocking anyone at all.
Offense needs to go pass heavy 2004 ball. Pass pro is decent. That might then open up running game for Wadley.
I think it's not so much impossible for Iowa as it is a lack of agressive will to achieve it.
Love. Wadley but sometimes I wish we were down to our 5th string back. Then we'd stop handing off with 9 in the box... think our playmaking RB will bust one eventually.
Yeah, I don't think we'll be a nominee this year. Along w/punter=biggest deficiencies on the team
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12-0 and we were barely Top 25 IMO. That team wasn't that good. Beat Wisc on the road, what else?
The OL does seem to be sleepwalking but wonder how much of its failures are due to einstein's play calling from up top.
There is big asterisk on the 12-0 season. Stanford blew us out of game in 1st quarter in bowl game and that MSU team we battled in B1G title game got blown out by Alabama. B1G is not a good football league--that is why KF is able average around 50% wins in B1G play and schedule some creampuff's in preseason and laugh all the way to the bank.
Nobody elite, but NW was in top 15 of BCS. Other teams won 7-8 games, Pitt, Nub, etc. And winning at WI is a pretty big deal. Too many discount the schedule.
Yeah. Nobody else makes fair catch calls on the 7 yard line. WTF?
This half was really on Stanley. There were enough calls and throws over 15 yds downfield that if he was even 50% there, (or even 33 or 25%?) it would have totally opened up the run and given us a ball game.
If our punt returner is coached to make fair catches at the 7 yard line, our coaches need to be SHOT! Not fired. No, no. SHOT! Firing is too merciful for something so football stupid.
Are we going to see any other RB's besides Wadley??? I think the other guys could give us a spark ....
Reference has SOS in the 50s. How many Power 5 teams are there? Our schedule was super weak in 2015. No doubt.
Now Doodle knows he's not a $5M coach....but what is the downside to throwing deep on the last play of the half? The half will end either with a punt or pass.......but only one of them gives you a chance to score (or maybe get an extra untimed down). Doodle has no stats to back this up....but risk of score from blocked punt/punt return has to be exponentially higher than 100-yard INT return....right??
Correct. He's coached to fair catch it when there are 3 defenders within 1 yard of him
