November 23rd, 2012 at 3:37 PM ^
No dive - just a really bad team that has an awful OC.
November 23rd, 2012 at 3:40 PM ^
"I ALSO like to live dangerously..."
-Kirk Ferentz
November 23rd, 2012 at 3:41 PM ^
The only thing I can think after watching (most of) that game: How the H*ll did UM give up 17 to Iowa last week? Mind boggling.
November 23rd, 2012 at 3:44 PM ^
They actually threw the ball, and there weren't 30 mph winds.
November 23rd, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
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?
November 23rd, 2012 at 3:53 PM ^
Because the wind took away even the possibility of a downfield passing game.
November 23rd, 2012 at 3:48 PM ^
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.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:00 PM ^
Kirk Ferentz....... The world's least interesting man.
That being said, this is what happens when you lose control of your own destiny.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:02 PM ^
Does this game give anyone else an overwhelming morbid curiosity to see what a GERG Davis/Robinson team would be like? Preferably after getting hired together at MSU or something.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
The resistible force vs. the moveable object.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:48 PM ^
The 2004 Texas Longhorns. You might recall that they beat us in the Rose Bowl that year. Amazing when you think about it.
November 23rd, 2012 at 5:20 PM ^
I'm going to say that Vince Young won in spite of the GERGs.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:02 PM ^
Kirk Ferentz....... The world's least interesting man.
That being said, this is what happens when you lose control of your own destiny.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:12 PM ^
Thanks for nothing. northwestern, state, penn state and iowa. You are all useless and you shall get pounded next season by Michigan.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:18 PM ^
Or we could have taken care of business ourselves and not counted on the rest of the conference to do it for us.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:29 PM ^
I don't see pounding them unmercifully and losing control of our own destiny to be mutually exclusive.
November 23rd, 2012 at 8:59 PM ^
a freshman qb who wasn't ready to play yet is the QB for much of the game. I have no doubt that Michigan would of have won with either Denard or Devin at QB. Basically Nebraska lucked their way into the Big Ten title game, with the help of key injuries, the officials, and an incompetent Iowa coaching staff along the way.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^
Amirite?
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^
We would be co-legends champions if we win tomorrow.
November 23rd, 2012 at 7:01 PM ^
Who cares? We can't win the Big Ten. A division championship is worthless in the grand scheme of things.
November 23rd, 2012 at 7:06 PM ^
As Bob Ufer might have said.
November 23rd, 2012 at 7:33 PM ^
Don't forget about Wisconsin. Nebraska should have lost that game.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
Iowa football: snoozapalooza.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
Multiple post fair in this thread...
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
Iowa football: snoozapalooza.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:35 PM ^
The fact that Nebraska survived MSU, Wiscy, NW, PSU, and UM by the collective skin of their teeth is what drives me crazy - a crappy Iowa team shouldn't have decided the Legends division anyway. The fact the refs blew at least 2 games with calls that benefitted Nebraska (MSU and PSU), that's what helped them win the division. Oh yeah, and Denard going down.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:42 PM ^
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.
November 23rd, 2012 at 7:35 PM ^
I have a hard time making that leap because, unless I'm mistaken, we were losing that game before Denard's injury.
November 23rd, 2012 at 8:59 PM ^
was inside the 15 yard line, driving to take the lead when he went down. I am 100% sure that UM is the better team with either Devin or Denard, but unfortunately at the end of the day being the better team does not matter in this case.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:38 PM ^
Nebraska was absolutely turrible today. Offensively, Iowa was beyond turrible. Iowa's D stood up. Unfortunately the play calling and clock management were hideous. To an outsider (me), that looked like sub-HS caliber coaching.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:40 PM ^
I actually hope douche-tastic Wisconsin wins next week. Nebraska has gotten every break. Every call. For them to show up and play like garbage today was the last draw.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:44 PM ^
Draw?
November 23rd, 2012 at 6:59 PM ^
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.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:40 PM ^
No. But he is not a very good coach.
November 23rd, 2012 at 4:59 PM ^
Is taking a dive = being overly conservative and generally less than mediocre decision-making in-games? If so, he's been taking a dive for quite a while
November 23rd, 2012 at 5:03 PM ^
Better question: was that the worst game of football you have ever seen? At least in the bottom 10 for me.
November 23rd, 2012 at 5:58 PM ^
Kirk Ferentz is the personification of everything that has been competitively wrong with Big Ten Football in the last decade. He is a content mediocre midwest loser. As slimey as Urban Meyer is, at least he goes for wins, not the consolation prize of being a good guy or getting a pat on the back for playing hard. Watching Ferentz jog off the field stoicly, as if he accomplished something because his team managed to not get blown out, made me sick
What am I thankful for this Thanksgiving? That Michigan didn't hire that football dinosaur who makes Lloyd Carr look like Chip Kelly. To punt from midfield on 4th down when your un-bowl-bound team has absolutely nothing to lose is an insult to common sense. To run a base offense with two minutes left in the game and take 25 seconds to get the play calls in is beyond incompetence.
While obviously I had a vested interest in an Iowa victory and am annoyed that Ferentz derped away a golden upset opportunity, watching the game helped me realize why the Big Ten hasn't been able to compete with the big boys. That sad ass conservative dinosaur mentality, from this idea of a gentleman's handshake in recruiting to punting on 4th down inside your opponent 40 yard line, the Big Ten has become home to the least innovative and most stagnant and uninspiring coaching staffs in the country.
November 23rd, 2012 at 6:29 PM ^
And you recycled it here?
November 23rd, 2012 at 7:05 PM ^
Sustainable blogging.
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:10 PM ^
This is a blog...if I can't rant here about a lame conservative coach blowing a golden opportunity for an upset that would give my team the chance to play for a conference championship, where can I? Get over yourself. There's two other posts basically saying the same thing about how Ferentz sucks and is the least interesting man in the world. So they deleted mine and I still felt the need to post my angry rant...big deal. Let me bitch. Nobody is getting hurt and it makes me feel a tiny bit better to complain about how shitty a coach Kirk Ferentz is.
I promise to follow the delithium, taco pants, muppets, kittens chorus going forward.
November 23rd, 2012 at 10:49 PM ^
They are being bitches. Speak your mind.
November 24th, 2012 at 10:11 AM ^
Delithium?
I must have missed the posts and subsequent meme of removing the metal from watch batteries...
or is that a new reference to the state of Michigan's football team after Denard leaves?
November 23rd, 2012 at 6:19 PM ^
Agree with criticism of late game clock management and play calling, but Iowa's defense played very well, especially after the first five minutes of the game. Credit Ferenz for being competitive.
November 24th, 2012 at 12:21 AM ^
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.
November 23rd, 2012 at 6:57 PM ^
on anti-depressants.
November 23rd, 2012 at 7:27 PM ^
Anyone think that Ferentz will be let go at Iowa next year?
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:55 PM ^
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.
November 23rd, 2012 at 7:59 PM ^
should resign in protest and come back home to coach.
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:26 PM ^