So you "could" give a shit? Under what conditions could you give a shit exactly?
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Ok, not an apologist take… but wtf DI 😂😂😂"Enough is enough.
The University of Iowa is a school that prides itself on its football team. As of late, there hasn’t been much to be proud of.
The script has been the same for the past several years: get a winning record, play in a bowl game, and that’s it. That simply isn’t going to cut it anymore"
Opinion | It’s time for Iowa football to change
Enough is enough. The University of Iowa is a school that prides itself on its football team. As of late, there hasn’t been much to be proud of. The script has been the same for the past several years: get a winning record, play in a bowl game, and that’s it. That simply isn’t going...dailyiowan.com
The 97' team was probably the end for Hayden. That team was loaded with talent and just couldn't win the close games that year plus laid the usual Ohio St. egg. They somehow lost to Michigan in a game they seemed to dominate and then lost by 3 at Wisconsin and 1 at NW.
98' they didn't have a ton of talent and the team continued its slide from 97' and finished 3-8.
Enough with poor poor pitiful Iowa. We are 16th in the nation of colleges spending NIL money. We play in the biggest, probably richest conference in the country. There are no pro-teams in this state. We sell-out Kinnick on a season ticket basis yearly. We are consistently in the Top 10 most watched games weekly. We lay claim to five national championships. We are not Ohio St/Mich.......but on a historical basis we are not Indiana either. We can and should expect more than mediocrity. The young man at the DI called it correctly. We can do better, Ferentz needs to go.
College football's top 50 programs ranked by NIL efforts
Separating the haves and have nots across college football.247sports.com
I don't think anybody expects Iowa to become one of the 5 or 10 "Blue Bloods."
That being said... We haven't had a memorable season in what, 9 years? 10 years? And we've been getting absolutely throttled by all the good programs in recent years.
Lol, you're always so great for comic relief. Don't change.
Some on here are so scared of life without KF that they'll happily accept the continued mediocrity and being a college football laughingstock. It's really something. The guy will be gone sooner or later, and it's not that far off. I don't know how they're going to handle it.
I disagree, the last few years HAVE been memorable. not in good ways, but they’ve been memorable
The obvious: Find a few million dollars for NIL recruiting!!!
IS this money that is donated to the colleges or what is given to the NIL pot? A big difference?Enough with poor poor pitiful Iowa. We are 16th in the nation of colleges spending NIL money. We play in the biggest, probably richest conference in the country. There are no pro-teams in this state. We sell-out Kinnick on a season ticket basis yearly. We are consistently in the Top 10 most watched games weekly. We lay claim to five national championships. We are not Ohio St/Mich.......but on a historical basis we are not Indiana either. We can and should expect more than mediocrity. The young man at the DI called it correctly. We can do better, Ferentz needs to go.
College football's top 50 programs ranked by NIL efforts
Separating the haves and have nots across college football.
"Mediocrity", lmao.
Just a blatant exaggeration for the means of fitting a narrative.
Y'all can lie through your teeth, and lie to yourselves all you want that Iowa fits your definition of "mediocrity". But you are exposed by how the rest of the country defines it. When the large majority of fan bases across the country would kill for their team to have the success of Iowa football, that ain't mediocrity.
Blatant disrespect of an incredibly respectable football program
Just a blatant exaggeration for the means of fitting a narrative.
Y'all can lie through your teeth, and lie to yourselves all you want that Iowa fits your definition of "mediocrity". But you are exposed by how the rest of the country defines it. When the large majority of fan bases across the country would kill for their team to have the success of Iowa football, that ain't mediocrity.
Blatant disrespect of an incredibly respectable football program
I remember that team as one of the worst teams … wow they were terrible in every aspect… I don’t want those days back ever… Nebraska fans have had to deal with this for how many years?
Yeah, so respectful. Iowa lost 7 of the last 11 bowl games and too often looks like deer in the headlights. Mediocrity means average or ordinary. It's considered the opposite of great. More than any other football team in America, Iowa is great at keeping a coach for 25 years when he should have been shown the exit a decade earlier, rewarding ridiculous contracts that were not earned. Wanna talk about "blatant"? How about the most blatant case of nepotism ever in college football and lawsuits for discrimination and rhabdo. Jim McMahon once said that "Chicago is where quarterbacks go to die". No, it's Iowa.
Mediocrity is not the opposite of great. Iowa is not average. Surely, you know these two things. Again, ask the rest of the country if Iowa is average.
Not sure why you think KF should have been fired a decade ago.
You don't think there have been countless other father/son combos on staffs? Almost every staff is made up of coaches who had previous relationships with each other. Why do you feel the need to exaggerate this as the most blatant case ever? There was nothing at the time of Brian's promotion to suggest that he wasn't qualified for the position. Never understood fan's level of sensitivity to it.
The racial suit is now laughed at by national media. That tells you everything you need to know.
And what do rhabdo, QB's, contracts, nepotism, and racial suits have to do with the fact that Iowa is nothing close to mediocre and to suggest as much is disrespectful?
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