2023 CyHawk
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Wish I had a gif of that last ISU offensive play for this.
That had such a weird 'OK, everyone go home now!' vibe.
ND game was a long rain delay.
I agree with Hawkeye Mike Hlas on this one. Iowa and ISU right now are both boring as F to watch play football. Iowa has almost always been that way.
I will say, we are definitely better at getting grass to grow. Too bad it doesn’t help in actual football games. Unless you call a lush natural grass football field negating any speed advantage we might have against opponents with inferior talent at the skilled positions….
Hlas is an idiot but he isnt wrong here, the last few years have sucked to watch.
Not going to disagree. Nice to get the W, but the way it happens it doesn’t give you a bunch of hope that a great season is ahead for either team without drastic improvements on offense.
Did Trice not get the hybrid grass/turf stitching before this season?
Iowa will be totally fine... they can play exactly how they did against ISU and win 10 games fairly easily and be in the B1G Championship game. It's hilarious.
It’s a great philosophy to start a program. Keeps you in a lot of games you shouldn’t be in. But the problem is, as you build it and your talent levels increase, you need to evolve with your talent level. Otherwise, you’re prone to losing some headscratchers as well.
But it’s also how they fairly frequently pull off big home upsets. They’re just rarely going to blow people out unfortunately and it’s not terribly pretty to watch.
But they won’t be able to actually have a chance in the championship game if the offense doesn’t take a big step as the year goes on.
So? It will still be a very successful season.
This will change next year though for Iowa... unless they decide to keep divisions, or pods, now that they've added all these teams? But if there are no divisions... Iowa will then be lucky to ever finish in the top 5 of the B1G again playing like they have been all these years.
For that to be true you campbell would need to punt on 3rd down. I get you're frustrated but nobody's more conservative than KF
Rougher for ISU. You guys have teams that are truly offense optional that you play.
Which team on Saturday threw deep more? Which team ran counters on run plays? ISU really never threw deep at all, and I don't remember us ever running any counters or misdirection either?
KF and BF are more progressive than CMC... those are the facts.
We did throw the ball downfield I'll give you that. I think what madguy said is true that Iowa takes a few calculated shots a game. Sometimes it works with us because it's so unexpected. Iowa is always near the lowest in plays per game, usually low in pass play % and giveaways. We aren't low in giveaways because we're some great disciplined offense it's because we're throwing plays away to eventually punt the football.
When you say counters are you talking about a run up the gut in a heavy formation on short yardage plays?
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Unlike last year, I feel the offense does have a chance to improve. This is the first full week of practice for Cade since the injury they are saying and I feel he and the receivers could get on the same page and maybe, just maybe the OL can run block some. Didn't have this feeling last year where there was zero hope the offense could do anything.
Big Ten hits Iowa WR Nico Ragaini with public reprimand for expletive-laden criticism of officiating
The Iowa receiver wasn’t exactly shy in voicing his opinion about a non-pass interference call that led to an interception.
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