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Why is the Iowa AD not taking heat for scheduling this game?

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Why schedule a powerhouse like North Dakota State? What's to be gained? That program is good enough to beat any team in the country that doesn't bring their B-game or better. It's pretty much guaranteed to be a competitive game no matter what. The younger players and scrubs aren't going to get minutes, which is the primary reason you schedule a 1AA team (other than to get the home game revenue). Foolish.

MSU made a similarly stupid move by scheduling BYU midseason, but only because the schedule was screwed up due to the move to the 9 games and they were forced to. What's Barta's excuse?
 
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FlintTown said:
Why schedule a powerhouse like North Dakota State? What's to be gained? That program is good enough to beat any team in the country that doesn't bring their B-game or better. It's pretty much guaranteed to be a competitive game no matter what. The younger players and scrubs aren't going to get minutes, which is the primary reason you schedule a 1AA team (other than to get the home game revenue). Foolish.

MSU made a similarly stupid move by scheduling BYU midseason, but only because the schedule was screwed up due to the move to the 9 games and they were forced to. What's Barta's excuse?
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Alumni. We also start next year with his previous employer.
 
Worse yet, it's his alma mater. Seems like a favor done at the cost of our program. Lose/lose game and it makes no sense that we do that.
 
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It's infuriating that this game was scheduled. Lose lose if there ever was one. No passion by fans, players and coaches. It was like a train wreck in slow motion. Everyone could see it coming.

At least byu is d1.
 
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He should be taking heat but it should have been done well before this game. Going back to when it was scheduled. You just gave your alma mater a 500K gift on Iowa athletics dime. With a very good chance of losing.
 
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As I posted before this game was ever played, the ONLY reason Iowa scheduled this game is because of Barta's connections there. It was potentially--and now has become--a "lose, lose" for Iowa.
 
hawkcub said:
He should be taking heat but it should have been done well before this game. Going back to when it was scheduled. You just gave your alma mater a 500K gift on Iowa athletics dime. With a very good chance of losing.
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Exactly right on using the Iowa AD to give a gift to his alma mater

I'm not going to agree on the 'very good chance of losing' that I keep seeing on here. Iowa should smoke any 1-AA school, regardless of their strength in 1-AA, every single time. There is no debate, they should never walk into a game against a program with 1/50th the resources that Iowa has and have even the slightest chance of losing
 
So, OP, should we schedule Eastern Michigan, Kent State and UL Monroe? They're ranked 128, 127 and 126 in the preseason FBS rankings and would likely get us a nice shiny record to start the real season- which is what it takes to get national respect, right?

This is a silly thread. OSU played Oklahoma, Wisconsin LSU, Michigan State played Notre Dame this season. They all managed to do OK. It's not scheduling dangerous teams that's the problem, it's losing to them.
 
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NorthernHawkeye said:
It's infuriating that this game was scheduled. Lose lose if there ever was one. No passion by fans, players and coaches. It was like a train wreck in slow motion. Everyone could see it coming.

At least byu is d1.
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So is NDSU
 
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So, OP, should we schedule Eastern Michigan, Kent State and UL Monroe? They're ranked 128, 127 and 126 in the preseason FBS rankings and would likely get us a nice shiny record to start the real season- which is what it takes to get national respect, right?

This is a silly thread. OSU played Oklahoma, Wisconsin LSU, Michigan State played Notre Dame this season. They all managed to do OK. It's not scheduling dangerous teams that's the problem, it's losing to them.
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Agree with everything you said.

I would much rather play 3 good programs, than 3 easy wins....we do that, then we don't have to listen to all the "they didn't play anyone" talk that we had last year.
 
FlintTown said:
Why schedule a powerhouse like North Dakota State? What's to be gained? That program is good enough to beat any team in the country that doesn't bring their B-game or better. It's pretty much guaranteed to be a competitive game no matter what. The younger players and scrubs aren't going to get minutes, which is the primary reason you schedule a 1AA team (other than to get the home game revenue). Foolish.

MSU made a similarly stupid move by scheduling BYU midseason, but only because the schedule was screwed up due to the move to the 9 games and they were forced to. What's Barta's excuse?
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Well, it showed that we did not bring our A Game, B Game or whatever other game!
 
It's not loser. You're right, Iowa should never lose to an FCS program. Problem is we did, and we probably should have lost to UNI several years ago.

The issue is how this program is being run. This game shouldn't be scheduled to begin with. The ISU series needs to go away. There should be only one MAC type game a season. College football is changing with the money involved. If we want Iowa to be a high profile program, which most of us do, we need to start acting like it. That means scheduling quality P5 intersectional games like our BIG peers do.

Start acting like a big time program and maybe we will become one. Gets our coach out of his comfy zone too.
 
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Typcial Iowa mentality. Let's just schedule patsies and hope we go 8-4. And when this game was scheduled NDSU wasn't a national power so essentially that's what you thought you were doing and it back fired hard. If you want to be a big boy program start scheduling Oregon, Florida State, Notre dame and Oklahoma. That's the teams Nebraska, Michigan St, Louisville, and Ohio state beat this week. How does that make you feel? You lose to ndsu and the big boys beat other big boys.
 
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Typcial Iowa mentality. Let's just schedule patsies and hope we go 8-4. And when this game was scheduled NDSU wasn't a national power so essentially that's what you thought you were doing and it back fired hard. If you want to be a big boy program start scheduling Oregon, Florida State, Notre dame and Oklahoma. That's the teams Nebraska, Michigan St, Louisville, and Ohio state beat this week. How does that make you feel? You lose to ndsu and the big boys beat other big boys.
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So you beat Oregon and all of sudden start running your mouth again. Love my Husker fans! It's like the last decade never existed for them.
 
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Why is the AD not talking to Ferentz and telling him, "I want you to try to win games on the last drive of the game, PERIOD."
 
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Ha, so you're saying they shouldn't have been scheduled because of how good they are??
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No...I'm saying some others are saying that. I'm am saying that is a ridiculous argument, as they were not a good team when the schedule was created. Personally, I don't believe an FCS team should ever be scheduled. Win or not...it's an embarrassment.
 
Mitch_Hawkeye said:
They travel really well, much better than most of the lower end Big Ten teams. NDSU brought alot of money to Iowa City this weekend.

That is the one and only upside I can think of. We need to start scheduling power 5 schools.
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Power 5 teams not an option unless we drop ISU or give up a home game every other year.
 
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Power 5 teams not an option unless we drop ISU or give up a home game every other year.
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Plenty of non-P5 FBS teams. And we wouldn't want to give up a home game every other year, considering how we seem to be unbeatable at home:rolleyes:
 
Fade-To-Black said:
Plenty of non-P5 FBS teams. And we wouldn't want to give up a home game every other year, considering how we seem to be unbeatable at home:rolleyes:
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1 Mac team is enough. Maybe a MWC or a non power 5 Texas or Florida school. There aren't many good options
 
Fade-To-Black said:
Exactly, scheduled way back when. NDSU was not very good back when this game was schedule (not even by FCS standards).
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Simple, scheduling bad FBS schools is better than any FCS. Nothing to gain from the FCS game at all, Nebraska pissed me off a few times with this(South Dakota State, Mcneese St., etc). Those teams have nothing to lose as its all just sprinkles on the cake, while anything but a 30+ point win looks bad on the FBS school.
 
Wouldn't it make more sense for Iowa to load the pre-season with in-state schools such as Coe, Briar Cliff, Waldorf, etc? That way win or lose it keeps the $$$ in state. And playing those level schools at least gives Iowa a half chance of winning. However, if I was Iowa I wouldn't schedule anybody in state who is equal or better like Iowa Western unless they pay Iowa a minimum of $500,000 so at least get some extra $$$ to pay for Ferentz contract extension.
 
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All week this message board is talking about how any FCS team can't hang with Iowa - then you lose and start complaining the game was even scheduled? Joke.

You had a chance to play a good team, get a quality win (even if you don't think it is - people that actually follow football know it would be) and get better against a team that pounds the football and has a good line on both sides. Instead you lost and are looking for excuses. Here is an idea - get better....

Also in my opinion this really want an upset - game was a coin flip from the get go. FCS is underrated in general and Iowa is still ranked overly high from their cush schedule last year - weren't really too good then and when you played a real time got smoked.
 
Savior last year as much as you can cause Iowa is usually shitty for a couple of years and then has a good one. Rinse and repeat.
 
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