Petras gets blasted by Barstool
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If Kirk leaves, id rather he do it while Barta is still AD though. Set them on a downward path for the next several years.
Yeah they have really good defenses and special teams. That's how they are winning. If they had an above average offense, they might actually have been more than a Fake ID team as Cowherd aptly put it.
Read your last paragraph compared to how you describe Iowa's offense. Would you ever say Oklahoma having a, in your words, horrible defense complimented their offense? I mean it's the same argument, OU's defense got the ball back to their offense quicker by letting the other team score, which compliments an explosive offense. That sounds just dumb as saying Iowa's terrible offense compliments their good defense.
The only problem with your logic- Iowa's bad offense didn't make it easy for opponents to score. While Oklahoma's bad defense allowed opponents to score easily.
Not a hard concept, a 20-10 win counts the same as 34-10. Ferentz has had success doing the former with a mediocre offense.
Up until last year the Iowa defenses were a bit of fools gold too though and prior to Taylor they had had several punting problems. Iowa has absolutely FEASTED on poor QB play and offenses for like the last 5 or 6 years. Yes, they have been good but they have also been exposed multiple times too.
That Punter has won them multiple games. Including against us last year. Crazy that one special teams player can make that big of a difference, but he has. This year, their offense is bad enough that he can't cover up for them like he did last year.
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And keep in mind, those numbers (defense and offense) come against the Big 10 west. If Phil Parker was coaching in the Big 10 east, I really doubt if the defense would put up elite numbers that they do against Northwestern, Minnesota, Nebraska and Illinois.
The last 7 years Purdue has scored at least 20 points. Twice in seven years they have scored more than 30 points.
This nails it- the solid defense, special teams, strong running game, and winning the turnover game is a perfect recipe to beat these mediocre teams most years. And they don't drill people like Hayden used to because, much like ISU currently, they will be in just about every game but so will the opponent- that system of play almost guarantees close games in today's college game. In the last 13 seasons Iowa has played the league bully of this era, Ohio State, only four times. They have benefited amazingly from an unbalanced schedule.
Basketball is similar in a different kind of way- Fran's teams can't guard to save their a..es but they score a bunch of points well enough to beat BAD teams like Penn State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Nebraska and last year, Maryland, and pile up 8-10 "league" wins.
