Why not let the NFL prospects opt out and let the young guys get more run?
Since the season is effectively over....
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The season is hardly over. The rest of the games will determine how the season is remembered. If you were expecting this team to make the playoffs, you were highly over rating this team.
Season not over. Much to play for.
“Season over” is loser mentality.
“Season over” is loser mentality.
The season will likely be remembered as making it to a BS bowl game that nobody wants to play in or cares about.
You are in the minority...by quite a margin.
with the amount of returning starters & that soft ass schedule everyone's expectation should have been playoff or bust.
not thinking or believing that is the real loser mentality just like you losers wearing punting is winning merch.
not thinking or believing that is the real loser mentality just like you losers wearing punting is winning merch.
I don’t get what “playoff or bust” means.
We will not make the playoff. We have “busted”.
Now just quit? Forfeit the last 5?
If I'm KF I'd float the option to any senior or underclassmen who'll turn pro like Johnson to sit out the rest of the season. This year was a failure and there's no way around it. None of these 6th year guys came back to go 8-4 and get rewarded with an exhibition game after a month of practice in December. Times have changed.
There's less of a chance of next year being a failure if young players play more the rest of the year. We don't even have a chance of playing spoiler or I'd think differently.
I would think a loser mentality would be a team not making the playoffs and being ok with it since bowl games are essentially the NIT now.
Must be a lot of losers out there. Only a dozen teams make the playoffs.
In case you're new to sports: Not making the playoffs is a failed season.
Listed in many other thread:
Two trophies
10 win season
End ranked
Bowl win
Possibly keep Nebraska from a bowl.
If the 41-121 White Sox go 81-81 next year, with no playoffs, do you think that will be a “failed season”?
Hmm, you respond to the English language, but common sense is lacking. Are you an AI?
You just said you didn't understand what "playoff or bust" means. You acknowledged understanding that we have busted. That means the season is a failure. What is so difficult to "get"?
You're either a real idiot, or a troll. I'll explain this for your benefit. What determines if you have a successful season or not depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to improve in the wins column from last year, that would be a successful year. When your team reaches a certain level, then your goal becomes the playoffs. Clearly, with having an established program (10+ years), and with who was coming back, the fans hoped for the playoffs. Who knows what the hell Ferentz's goal(s) was/were? But they aren't going to the playoffs now. I knew they wouldn't, but that was the expectation from fans.
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That’s different. It’s pro sports. The answer is yes.
This is college sports. Most of these guys are going to be just regular working joes in a few years. They got NIL money, and you only get so many opportunities to put the pads on before it’s all over.
And with 5 spots being guaranteed, which I don't see Iowa winning the current B1G with NIL any time in the rest of my lifetime, Iowa will have to be one of the 7 at-large teams to make a 12 team tournament.
In my lifetime Iowa would have definitely made it in 85, 91, 02, 09, and 15....maybe at-large in 83 & 04, and 81 if they would have won a non existent B1G championship vs tOSU....not sure why they didn't play that year as every other team played 9 conference games.
Any way, a minimum of 5, 8 at most.
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If I were KJ or his family/loved ones, I’d be pissed if he blew his knee out during some meaningless game in the next month. His draft status will never be higher than it is now.
There’s a difference between saying the season is a failure and saying the season is over.
I was expecting them to make the playoffs, if they beat Iowa State. And they had no business losing to Iowa State until Cade stepped in and gave the Clones a game and season to remember.
I think we should have forfeited against Ohio State. Legitimately. Should have used it as a bye week.
Here we go, I knew some of our fanbase would come along with the not a playoff contender thought process. Such a loser mentality when 12 teams make it. It definitely is the goal every year moving forward.
Your statement was “In case you're new to sports: Not making the playoffs is a failed season”.
There was no indication of any other criterion (e.g. “improve in the win column”).
And your statement tied to “sports”, not Hawkeye football.
Not every team in every sport every year deserves the “playoffs or failure” burden.
I don't believe so, but the goal is definitely playoffs. I'd argue it's more attainable than winning the conference moving forward.
Iowa has been favored in every game this season other than Ohio St, and there's a good chance that they will be favored in every game from here on out. You think that expecting a team to win all the games that it should is having overly unrealistic expectations? A season in which a team is favored in at least 10 games finishing out of the rankings, much less in the CFP, is an utter failure by any measurement.
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If you're talking about making the playoffs then the season is over for 80+% of teams.
I do agree, though, that given where they're at now it makes sense to get more of the younger guys on the field during regular game action.
I do agree, though, that given where they're at now it makes sense to get more of the younger guys on the field during regular game action.
