You are what you are.

The Iowa OC has been incompetent since his days as the Texas OC.

Not only is Ferentz employed, he is one of the highest paid college coaches in the country.  Last list I saw he was #6 @ $3.9 M / yr.

I don't know but that M-OSU game in 2007(?) when Henne had the bad arm was pretty damn conservative.  Carr vs. Tressel with OSU basically just running out the clock in the second half.

was nearly unbearable to watch. Iowa posessions:

Plays      Result

6               Int

3               Punt

6               Punt

3               Punt

3               Punt

3               Int

Yeeeeeeesh.

Urban man-crush?

that was three words

that "terrible coaching" and "terrible players" are independent things. They are not. Iowa is terrible partially because their coaching has been terrible. Ferentz is a puntosaur, and Greg fricking Davis is one of the most incompetent OCs I have ever seen. I think they attempted one throw of greater than 10 yards in teh 4th quarter. When they were losing by a touchdown and had the wind at their backs. Meanwhile, on a 3rd and 4 he decided on an utterly obvious run that went for 1 yard...and from there Ferentz took over by punting on a 4th and 3 from midfield with just 7 minutes left. I mean...come on, man. 

The Vandenberg interception was lol bad after that (again on another called completely unsurprising short pass), but they lost the game on the two-play sequence to end thier next-to-last drive of the game.

Yea, it's all Vandenberg.  What's on their bench is a true freshman who nobody knows anything about; probably not better. This offensive scheme is the culprit this season, not James Vandenberg.  He went from being a pretty decent QB the past few years under KOK to what we just witnessed.  Some blame belongs to him, sure, as he does make mistakes.  Much of what has occured this year, though, is a product of a terrible offensive sheme that didn't click what-so-ever amonst the whole offense, the whole season.

The qb is not the problem. Vandenberg threw for 3000yards and 25/7 tds to INTs last year. Ferentz and Davis turned him into a pathetic wash up this season.

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Sorry double post

I know the whole "they're professional coaches and I'm not" thing matters, but seriously. I can't call that a conservative gameplan, because that would imply someone on the coaching staff had a plan at all. Maybe Ferentz and co. are good at developing talent behind the scenes, but when it comes to game time they don't just look bad, they look inept. You didn't outline anything rare, or difficult that they can't do, you outlined basic fundamental things just about every high school coach in America can do in their sleep, yet this B1G coach gets paid millions of dollars to continuously struggle with. Iowa should not only clean house and bring one of the Stoops brothers back home, they should ask Ferentz for their money back.

They actually threw the ball, and there weren't 30 mph winds.

Freshman LB getting lost in coverage for the first drive, terrible roughing the passer penalty, then the 4th quater happened with us up 32 points with back-ups starting to sub in.  The bigger question was how did Neb only manage 13 points on that defense?

We gave up 7 just like Nebraska did. The refs gave Iowa 3 with a horrible roughing call. And the they score the other 7 against our 3rd string which Nebraska never got to put in.

The resistible force vs. the moveable object.

The 2004 Texas Longhorns. You might recall that they beat us in the Rose Bowl that year. Amazing when you think about it.

Or we could have taken care of business ourselves and not counted on the rest of the conference to do it for us.

Amirite?

Don't forget about Wisconsin. Nebraska should have lost that game.

Multiple post fair in this thread...

I agree, it's much in the vein of ND's undefeated season.  While I do curse fortune and those two awful calls against MSU and PSU that saved Nebraska's bacon, I first have to look at our own program for not being in the B1G championship.  M's utter lack of prepardness for Denard going down is IMO the reason Nebraska wins the division.

Draw?

Whether or not they win next week, they will get exposed in their bowl game, whether its the Rose Bowl or the Capital One Bowl. They have a shitty defense and an offense that can be good but consistently shoots itself in the foot. Oregon/Stanford or Florida/Georgia/Texas A&M would annihilate Nebraska.



I know it doesn't mean much, but I can go to bed at night knowing that overall, Michigan has a better team.

And you recycled it here?

I will never credit Ferentz for having the mediocre year that he did. For the kind of money he's getting paid, he's putting out garbage teams. He also hired a shitty OC that allowed his, IMO, severely underrated QB to plummet to a 7 TD season. If I were an Iowa fan, I'd be furious.



I will grant him, though, that he has had more bad luck with injuries at RB than most teams get in years. And that position happens to be their bread and butter. But still, this was a pathetic year for him. I wouldn't fire him, as I know he's capable of fielding a great team, but something there has to change.

His buyout is ridiculous. I believe he's contracted to be paid between $3 and $4 miillion a year until 2021 or so, and the buyout is like $20 million.

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that injuries + Ferentz getting too comfortable have killed the Hawkeyes. I'd say more of the latter than the former.