Welcome to the Big Ten West and playing basically nobody non-conference.
So Iowa has the 9th best winning % in FBS since 2015...
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Oh and yes, when you annually leave 2-3 wins on the table because of your own stupid consistently inconsistent bullsh**, you have earned the reward of "yeah great, but how about more"...............I'm all for winning more, but what you're really suggesting is that, no matter how high the performance, the bar should be higher, meaning we never "succeed". (Not necessarily.....)
That's a great attitude for continuous improvement and one every person should have regarding themselves. (Yes, it is Iowa, and Kirk's for now, job to figure out how, or if, they can take Iowa to whatever level is above being a perennial 8-9 win team............) It's a bad one to use to judge the success of a team as a whole (Which is why we're not using it to judge the success they've had............) since it means that literally the only way to meet expectations is to win the NC. (I'd be fine with that! We could use a national championship around here in something other than wrestling........) Anything short comes with "yeah, great, but how about more....". (It's kinda funny because that's where the wrestling program/fans are at..........)
Sorry, not sorry?
I don't know how Jersey Fried Chicken is gonna help Iowa win more, but...........if you say so.
Doesn't mean Iowa, personally, won't find ways to lose to them...........
If I hated a team’s head coach as much as some of you do, I sure as hell would not follow the team closely and surely would not be on team forums posting. I’d wait until he was gone. Like someone posting on the web makes one iota of a difference. Lol. Unless you are a big money donor your opinion means squat.
My concern for Iowa is when then need a first down to run out the clock at the end of the game , it rarely happens.
That’s usually where we go full on conservative. Run up the middle. A great team could still open holes and impose their will.
I do read the commentary if I can, although it's a message board so time is limited.Again, what is it you think I'm asking?......
P.S. I do hope you read all my quoted commentary. I can never tell if people do, because it often feels like they give up and just cherry pick things out of frustration........
To your question of what I think you are asking, I have no idea. It's why I answered like I did. In life in general, and especially on a message board, I will make very little attempt to tease out nuance or implied meaning. Just how I am. You seem like an okay guy/gal, we can agree to disagree on something.
Ummm.....
In the past 5 years Michigan has played Bama, OSU , UGA, ND and Central Florida...
That's 5 of the top 7 on that list...
What exactly is your point...besides we kicked the f out of UCF?
We’ll that would be 9 games vs Indiana, Rutgers, Maryland + I’m sure there was 4 or so MAC teams, probably a service academy and a directional school of some sort.
mill let you research, and ask what’s your point?
One of the things I'm hoping to see change now. Not only improvement from the OL but with some of the bigger backs were bringing now to supplement the Williams's I think we'll see improvement there, and that would be huge.
Beathard was pretty good, and i hear QB is fairly important.
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I can't remember...does Michigan have to play a home and home with the same P5 non-con opponent every year? If not, I wonder if that opens up their scheduling options a bit....
It does open things up but even when we had the (mostly) annual series with ND going (recently ended) we still found a way to schedule a second home and home which more often than not was a mid-tier PAC12 team.
In the last 5 (non-covid) seasons Michigan changed the strategy a bit. We did finish out our series with ND (two games) but tried doing a neutral site thing opening one year with Alabama and another against Florida. We also finished off the back end of a home and home with Washington. We also played UCF in that span who is on the list I reacted to.
Now if you want to go back 6 years...we played an OOC schedule of @Utah (P12), Oregon State (P12) and BYU (Indie but legit). That was in one year. You can criticize Umich for a lot of things but OOC is not one of them which Is why I was wondering where the need to compare Iowa to Michigan was coming from?
Now the irony is if someone looks at our upcoming OOC schedule they will get a good laugh. It is the weakest I can ever remember. There is even a current thread on our board asking if our "cupcake schedule" will prepare us to play Iowa in week 5.
And we generally scheduled ISU, one other P5 team (like Pitt, ASU, Syracuse, etc.) and two teams that will play at Kinnick for $$ without a return game at their stadium (prior to going to 9 conference games). Since that changed to 9 conference games, the only way to get 7 home games is to play the annual home/home with ISU and two mac level teams.
Playing ISU annually in a home/home series puts Iowa into a corner: either they are the only P5 team we ever play out of conference or we play a home/home with another P5 and give up a home game. It's a never-ending source of debate here.
You're going to need some good off speed stuff to go with that heat or you can kiss that MLB career goodbye fella.
If Iowa dropped ISU from schedule my guess is a team from the MAC would take its place and not somebody like Bama.
Until we get to a 12 team or 16 team playoff this would be the case. Or we would get a Wyoming or someone like that.
must admit was sweet seeing Josh Allen play in Kinnick.
Indeed. Welcome to Kinnick Maize and blue! I just hope its a night game, so the wolverines get the FULL Kinnick experience......
All I ask for is a mediocre offense to compliment some of the ridiculous defenses we've been fielding lately. That is where our offense is for me... I'd be thrilled with mediocre.
You don't think they would schedule a ASU, Pitt type team like they did before?
Full Kinnick experience? You guys retouching the pink paint in the visitors locker room?
Cute. The Hawks are 5-1 in their last 6 games at home against AP top 5 ranked teams. The one loss by a point to PSU in the last 30 seconds. Come join us if you've never been to a game at Kinnick. The place where visitors dreams come to die.....
Nope....it would be like before...home/home with teams like Pitt, ASU, etc. Why would you expect anything different from what we did pre 9 game conference schedule?
So an awful power school. Just keep Iowa state. It’s more interesting.
really don’t care to see Barta go through the motions of finding a school from a good conference that sucks and then pretend they are playing somebody.
You don't get to choose. The FB administration will do what they're going to do. You can attend/watch/follow along or not. That's your level of control. Deal with it. Thanks for your informed opinion though....
Just remember Alabama fans whine more than us. Fanbases are stupid
@pistachio1999 I would like to be the first to welcome you to the Iowa athletic department intern program. Good work, I'm sure your review will pass with flying colors.
I'm not sure why some of you don't understand that winning at Iowa has very little to do with the offense. I think what a good portion of the fanbase is asking for is some improvement in an area that desperately needs it.
He can only handle a opinion when it aligns with his thinking! Otherwise, his panties get all bunched up! Poor Bastard!
We have had some pretty weak schedules, a better metric is win against teams >.5 win percent. Our non-conference games are a joke, with any credibility hinging how ISU that current year.
Half the people on a cruise ship will be happy, talk about the amenities on the ship when a bigger ship comes by. Their kids will look at the bigger ship in awe, but those fifty percent will say the ship is good for the price. The other fifty will be looking for all the reasons they couldn't get on the bigger ship. They will see all the deficiencies , and question what it would take to get on that bigger ship. Things like paying more, but for that they will need to do better themselves.
Clemson was the smaller boat until they got a promotion. They were content with being a nine win team, beating South Carolina, and occasionally beating FSU, Miami, and an SEC team in the bowl.
Now they would never see that as good enough. At least not this generation of fans. Newer Nebraska fans are happier with less results because that's what they know. Well not really. That mindset is bred into them. Let's say Minnesota fans hmm.
Clemson was the smaller boat until they got a promotion. They were content with being a nine win team, beating South Carolina, and occasionally beating FSU, Miami, and an SEC team in the bowl.
Now they would never see that as good enough. At least not this generation of fans. Newer Nebraska fans are happier with less results because that's what they know. Well not really. That mindset is bred into them. Let's say Minnesota fans hmm.
