Realistic Prediction for next year
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Ive seen this story before so I will say 8-4 (5-3 in BT)
15-0 if I'm being realistic. Beating Stanford by 60 in the championship.
My way way way early prediction would be 10-2 we win the west and lose in the CC game and get a New years day bowl against a SEC team.
W'eve seen this before. 7 and 5 , lose a bowl game.
I think we go 8-4 and lose again in the bowl game. Hard to have a ton of confidence after the a$$ kicking we received today....
We will win the Big10 West. I don't know what our record will be yet, but we will be back in Indianapolis.
Well, Iowa ended with an "ass kicking" last year vs. Tennessee and it certainly didn't hurt their confidence this season. 
Way too early prediction:
Iowa starts out ranked in the top 10. CJ's a winner so that will help, but they won't get the bounces the way they did this season plus the schedule is significantly tougher. I'm going with 9-3 and a Citris Bowl (or whatever it is named next season) bowl birth.
Iowa starts out ranked in the top 10. CJ's a winner so that will help, but they won't get the bounces the way they did this season plus the schedule is significantly tougher. I'm going with 9-3 and a Citris Bowl (or whatever it is named next season) bowl birth.
No he won't. Kirk will be Kirk. He may change a couple minor things to make you fans think he's a new Kirk, when in all reality it's the same ol Kirk.
10 wins would be a good year.
Hawks had all the bounces their way this year to go with a favorable schedule.
Hawks had all the bounces their way this year to go with a favorable schedule.
We have a lot of things to work with next year:
The offensive line could be better with another year with Doyle...replacing Blythe will be a challenge.
-need to find some TE's and FB's
-a 100% CJ will add to the offense
-still need to find WR's
-Lots of experience coming back on the front seven
-depending on King, we need to replace some experience here
If healthy, on paper, we should be better than this year.
For me, the elephant in the room is the overall talent of this team. In the past three bowls we have been manhandled by teams that have had multiple losses..but yet were far and away superior in talent. We can talk all we want about out working talent but that only goes so far.
Next year I think we are anywhere from 8-4 to 11-1 but if we would win the west again it would lead to another top bowl and another ass kicking....but I will still enjoy the ride
The offensive line could be better with another year with Doyle...replacing Blythe will be a challenge.
-need to find some TE's and FB's
-a 100% CJ will add to the offense
-still need to find WR's
-Lots of experience coming back on the front seven
-depending on King, we need to replace some experience here
If healthy, on paper, we should be better than this year.
For me, the elephant in the room is the overall talent of this team. In the past three bowls we have been manhandled by teams that have had multiple losses..but yet were far and away superior in talent. We can talk all we want about out working talent but that only goes so far.
Next year I think we are anywhere from 8-4 to 11-1 but if we would win the west again it would lead to another top bowl and another ass kicking....but I will still enjoy the ride
No and no.
Outback Bowl vs Arkansas for us....we most likely get rolled again.
Stanford will be breaking in a new QB, a couple WRs and almost the entire OL....doubtful they'll be in the CFBP.
1) there were no "backups" in. James Daniels played the first couple of series. He has played a couple of series in just about every game this year.
They simply re-arranged the usual group (Welsh at RT instead of LG, Croston at LT instead of RT). When they took Daniels out, they opted to put the usual starting LT, Boone Myers, in at LG. So you had the starting 5 for every game since Maryland playing the last 90% of the game, just in different spots.
Now, that does beg the question, why our coaches were using the freaking Rose Bowl like it was spring practice to tinker around with the lineups, but you'd have to ask them about that.
Edit: after reading some Morehouse stuff, it looks like Boone Myers might have had an injury that necessitated all of the shuffling. That still wouldn't explain why Brian said in his interview with this site a few days ago that we had 7 healthy OL ready to contribute for the first time since pre-season.
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I guess at least Iowa doesn't now have to worry about tying that team from Utah like Iowa did against BYU in that bowl game some years back before there were overtime periods.
12-0. Seriously, who will beat us next year? I'm excited and always thought next year looked better on paper.
Said every single member of the Iowa fanbase after 2009.
We won a lot of close games and the ball bounced our way quite a bit. We will also have a target on our backs. Most of all the pressure is off KF. Whenever this happens we are unprepared to compete. I look for a regression to 6-6 or 7-5. This assumes KF always does what he does so I am playing the percentages.
I have heard the questions about the reshuffling of the line and at first glance one might think how stupid to do this in a bowl game. When I sit back and really analyze the season I might actually tip my cap to Brian for at least recognizing a problem and trying to find an answer. If you really go back and look at our last 3-4 games we started to struggle immensely moving the football on the ground and pass protection issues remained. The Nebraska yards were inflated highly by 2 long Canzeri runs but by in large we got handled up front leading to 0-9 on third down. Against MSU we managed 52 yards and yesterday 48. The answer might not be shuffling personnel but that outside of Daniels recruiting has been poor and we play too many undersized/non physical guys. We are based on technique not physicality so we you go up against good talent we struggle mightily.
But in some ways at least we had one assistant coach who came into this game recognizing a problem and trying to address it.
That's what the last five teams that we crushed said. Honestly, if you play like you did last game you won't even be competitive against NDSU.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-foo.../north-dakota-state-fcs-fbs-STOP-PLAYING-THEM
I doubt you win the game.
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A returning, experienced QB is always a good thing...and a good leader to boot...who else would you want as a team leader to bring this new team out of the darkness of this Black Hole of a Rose Bowl?
It should be interesting...hopefully surgery will heal CJ in time, if needed. He needs his mobility or becomes a sitting duck against talented defensive lines.
It should be interesting...hopefully surgery will heal CJ in time, if needed. He needs his mobility or becomes a sitting duck against talented defensive lines.
Anyone want to recount the history of returning SR QBs in the Ferentz era?
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