I never understood the 325, mainly because it’s not Iowa’s, or Kirk’s rather, style of winning. Over the years, Iowa wins ugly, not by scoring a lot of points. Iowa wins by not making mistakes and capitalizing on opponent’s mistakes.
Kirk has been notorious for sitting on leads, not even two score leads, but leads alone allowing the defense to win games. It’s hard to say, that with a majority of Iowa’s opponents that it hasn’t been successful over the years. Kirk has won a lot of games. And no, it doesn’t usually work against the big two Mich/OSU. It also allows lesser teams to hang around closer than they should (N’western/IU/Neb 😂).
My point is that I can’t believe Kirk and/or Brian actually went for that stipulation. Unless they thought that they were untouchable either way. It just doesn’t seem like Iowa’s style. I’d love Iowa to score a ton of points every game, but I really don’t care how much they score, honestly, as long as they out score the opponent at the end of the game. I’d much rather see them be able to move the ball when they need to. Eliminate back to back to back 3 and outs. Control the ball on offense and the clock. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to see any of it these past two years and currently, it appears the worst of it yet.
