Please try to be a little more analytical. What you pose as "facts" are far from them.This has to be a troll. How could anyone anticipate the shortcomings of the offense??? Heck, IDK….
1. The offensive line was not good in 2021 and they lost one of the best college centers of the last decade. Serious help was needed.
2. Iowa literally lost four scholarship receivers between the end of 2021 and May of 2022 and replaced none of them. NOT ONE!
3. Quarterback play. Speaks for itself.
4. Offensive Coordinator. Speaks for itself.
And so far we’ve only fixed one of these issues and that’s quarterback.
The OL play was obviously a problem in '21 ... however, guys like Colby and Richman were "obviously" going to improve. While Colby had some hiccups ... Richman definitely DID improve!
You ignored the timeline I highlighted ... most of the best recruiting candidates are picked over by the official signing day. Recruiting is not something that usually happens on the spur of the moment ... but rather requires a vetting process in order to make sure that a guy is a good "fit." You're completing ignoring this FACT!
As it relates to WRs ... 2 of Iowa's top WRs emerging from the '21 season were Bruce and Johnson. Following signing day last Feb ... Charlie Jones was still a Hawkeye. On top of that ... Ragaini was a proven dude too. On top of that ... there was the hope that a healthy Vines and Brecht would prove to be contributors.
Given that Iowa had a great pair of TEs and a pretty strong RB room ... the WR room still appeared more than adequate. The biggest problems at WRs entering the '22 season were all the WR injuries.
Iowa's schemes don't require us to have a ton of WRs ... but it DOES require the ones we DO have to produce. Between injuries and factors that we, as fans, are not privy to ... the WRs did not contribute as any of us would hope.
QB play was what it was. Given that we saw comparable QB play no matter who was in ... that points more to the problems being attributable to factors OTHER THAN the QB.
As it relates to grading the OC ... what exactly are your objective credentials here? I'm an expert as it relates to analytical thinking - and I'm well versed in game-theory. If you do a really detailed analysis of how games were called - things really weren't as bad in that arena as fans suppose. That's not to say that improvements cannot be made there ... but in almost every game, the sequences of calls made led to a lot of the opportunities that Brian would have hoped for. Unfortunately, execution issues undermined many of those opportunities.