All Iowa Football Team---Post Bowl Edition
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Yes, I realize that WV’s very mediocre defense is the 2nd most difficult defense Iowa State will face in conference play.
That's exactly why I think Purdy is just what Campbell looks for in a QB. Little unrefined right now, but the toolkit is there. I think that style of offense is ideally what Campbell sees his teams employing, but we just didn't quite have the players for it until recently.
On a similar note, I'm repeatedly shocked that ToE doesn't constantly recruit and play dual-threats. You guys generally have good OL and good RB, meaning you're a relatively-mobile QB short of a devastating RPO attack.
Iowa recruits dual-threat QBs, they just don’t get any of them.
Why is Iowa so bad at recruiting good QBs, WRs and RBs? Truly mind boggling
I don't think Iowa's style of offense is conducive to bringing in dynamic QBs or game breaking WRs. They've had good RBs before because their line play was good and they run the ball a lot. Their QBs are usually game managers because that's what Kirk wants his QB to do more often than not.
The last time Iowa had a RB they would consider good was Shonn Greene. That's a long tim ago. Obviously no WR is going to want to play for Brian but you do think they could recruit a good QB that would like to light up a weak Big Ten West
Pro Style offense is not considered sexy and a lot of high profile teams with good QBs are running high tempo spread offenses, like Purdy. Those guys look at the Iowa offense and probably get bored.
Who was the last really good WR Iowa had? DJK? That did not work out well.
They've had RBs drafted and play in the NFL, so I'd say those guys are pretty good.
Stanley is bad at the RPO, but excels at the RSO (Run Snack Option).
DJK has speed man, pure speed. Or at least that was word on the street.
I know I mentioned this on another thread, but Matthew Eaton was Nate Stanley's favorite ISU player. Until he realized it was spelled Eaton and not "Eat ton".
Exactly, do you want a good QB or a bad one?
At ISU Stanley would be glad Zeb left so now he's only two injuries from playing.
All these roundabout arguments are pretty stupid when year after year, there all these data points in non-con games and opponents conference games and bowl games that have all definitively said the same thing: year after year the Big12 has been consistently and significantly better than the Big 10 West. The bad offense or good defense debate is pointless. We don't need it. We have lots of data based on on the field performance. Stop making arguments with rankings talking about the conference as a whole. The Big 10 East is good, almost exclusively carried by teams Iowa doesn't play this year. The Big 10 West is, like it has been for nearly it's entire existence, is bad yet again. And don't take my word for it, read a Wisconsin article or fansite, or HN when talking about the season, and it is commonly discussed that the division is very weak.
And I don't really care to talk about NFL players, because, again, there are way more important data points - on the field performance. Some conferences play offense that has not really translated in the NFL. As a result, defenses follow suit to stop that conferences offenses. We all know Mark Vlasic was a far superior QB to Brad Banks and Chuck Long, correct? Or that Matt Cassell was way better than Tommie Frazier or Tim Tebow, right? Based on NFL draft boards it looks like there are more guys ISU will face on D in Big12 play than Iowa will in Big 10 play, but who knows how that will play out.
There are tons of data points that consistently tell us based on on-the field results that the Big 12 has been far better than the Big10 West, and it continues to be. Sometimes Iowa has a good schedule, sometimes it doesn't depending on how the East matchups go. Helps that ISU has been a boost for SOS the last couple years too, or if the MAC or other non-con team happens to be solid that year, like NIU is this year.
