Well, he is the coach of the whole team! Considering he literally designed his whole career on defensive football and the offense facilitating….
It seems you should probably give a shit ton more credit to him for that defense!!
What do you want to see from spring practice?
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Well, he is the coach of the whole team! Considering he literally designed his whole career on defensive football and the offense facilitating….
It seems you should probably give a shit ton more credit to him for that defense!!
This is exactly what I want to see. I want to hear that one of our receivers is truly turning heads and dominating. And that we have a tackle that is killing people as well. I have some worries about depth at corner and linebacker. Besides that zero worries about the defense.
Why did that surprise you after our regular season offense?
It probably didnt surprise him because 0 for 12 is really bad and the practices ahead of the bowl game should have also been a time to do lots of reps on the basics and put in a few special plays, like the center screen to Laporta that started off the first drive
It's good that Cade is at least a partial-go for the spring ... so that will allow him to build some chemistry with the guys on the O (and learn the O).
On the flip side, it's more than a bit of a bummer that both Bostick and Anderson are out with injury ... for the spring. To compound upon that, Brecht's development won't really be able to advance until the summer due to baseball.
Not a whole lot past Vines and Ragaini for this spring.
On the flip side, it's more than a bit of a bummer that both Bostick and Anderson are out with injury ... for the spring. To compound upon that, Brecht's development won't really be able to advance until the summer due to baseball.
Not a whole lot past Vines and Ragaini for this spring.
I would like to see the offensive line actually “see”opponents as they run past them- last year it was like the had blinders on and could only see what was straight ahead of them.
What you're describing here is a situation Iowa got itself in because it had unaccountable administration that either did not give 2 bleeps about sports or were downright malicious towards it as a value set. The big danger wasn't changing coaches. It was all about giving keys to administrators that didn't know how to lead, hire, or invest in the programs, and that can happen to pretty much any program in the country.
How about everyone else who has fired & hired coaches over and over, with horrible results?!
...and you think the University administration and leadership are better for the major sports now????
Even were I to concede that circumstnace the situation is worse today. I have no confidence that coaching competence would be the primary criterion on which the hiring decision was made.
Of course I don't concede your point because the general rule is most coaching changes fail. Alford. Some fail spectacularly. Lickliter. Not just at Iowa but almost every sport in every other NCAA Division I school. While I will concede there are other bad administrations the difference between coaching change failings is too large to be based on those things alone. Although
Plus you insert just a little magic thinking. You describe some other ideal administrative leadership that clearly does not exist at Iowa. So you are basing your solution in part on something that does not exist at Iowa.
Nor is there a realistic solution. Where do we start the terminations. Start with President and work our way down? You have to play the hand you're dealt. Change is almost certainly catastrophic for Iowa right now.
