News out of other spring camps
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Re: Iowa is cautiously optimistic...
I feel honored to have the stamp of approval. Lots of ISU fans as friends, you all aren't such bad people :smile: I'm usually rational for the Iowa-ISU discussions, with the exception of Iowa-ISU week every September of course.
Excellent, rational post, DodgerHawki. Consider yourself approved for future posting.
I feel honored to have the stamp of approval. Lots of ISU fans as friends, you all aren't such bad people :smile: I'm usually rational for the Iowa-ISU discussions, with the exception of Iowa-ISU week every September of course.
Re: Iowa is cautiously optimistic...
King/Kroul/Greene are essentially irreplacable, if you go on a strictly talent comparison on who is replacing them. Great thing about college is that teams don't exist in a vaccuum. Yes, King/Kroul are gone from the D, but does the collective improvement by the 8 other returning starters make Iowa overall a better defense, or at least comparable to last year? For the Iowa fan, that's the hope. On offense, again, neither Hampton or Brinson will be as good as Greene was last year. No Iowa RB has ever been as good as Greene was last year. Could the offense overall be better? It's possible. The positive side says that Iowa returns 7 linemen with starting experience. That we lost our first-team all-conference tight end (Myers) but replace him with a guy (Moeaki) who was the starter before he got hurt. That we lost Brodell but return our leading receiver (DJK) as well as several others with experience and a 4-star freshman (Davis). The negative side says that Iowa can't run without Greene and Stanzi isn't up to the task of moving the team through the air. It will be fun to find out.
King/Kroul/Greene are essentially irreplacable, if you go on a strictly talent comparison on who is replacing them. Great thing about college is that teams don't exist in a vaccuum. Yes, King/Kroul are gone from the D, but does the collective improvement by the 8 other returning starters make Iowa overall a better defense, or at least comparable to last year? For the Iowa fan, that's the hope. On offense, again, neither Hampton or Brinson will be as good as Greene was last year. No Iowa RB has ever been as good as Greene was last year. Could the offense overall be better? It's possible. The positive side says that Iowa returns 7 linemen with starting experience. That we lost our first-team all-conference tight end (Myers) but replace him with a guy (Moeaki) who was the starter before he got hurt. That we lost Brodell but return our leading receiver (DJK) as well as several others with experience and a 4-star freshman (Davis). The negative side says that Iowa can't run without Greene and Stanzi isn't up to the task of moving the team through the air. It will be fun to find out.
I wonder if that is what they mean when the reporters say they are covering the hawkeye beat? Honestly, it will never change over there until they stop letting 19 and 20 year olds into the bars. Most people that age don't know how to handle their liquor.
Of course not, i'll be happy with just contending for the Big 12 North and build off of that.
Coming out of spring practice, as a Husker fan, I feel pretty good as to were the team is at. Zac Lee has locked down the quarterback spot. Depth might be an issue, but hopefully Cody Green will be able to redshirt and redshirt freshman Kody Spano will be at full speed or close to full speed come August following a late spring practice knee injury.
Helu and Castille appear to be the #1 and #2 RB respectively and I feel good about the defense going into the fall with most of the back 7 returinging and Suh anchoring the D-Line.
I don't know if their defense is worse, but it's pretty bad. I would say on paper, both defenses suck, and ISU's offense is a long ways ahead of KSU's with experience at the major skill positions.
I was at the NU spring game, and your friend is delusional.
In order to make it to the NC scene, you must make it through the Conf schedule undefeated (or possibly with just one loss.) There are not many NU fans that beleive this is possible for the upcoming year. You can't get pummeled by OU and Mzzou like we did last year and expect to be in the hunt.
And this Husker fan hope you guys beat the sh-t out of the Hawks
