HawkeyeNation meltdowns
- Thread starter Blandboy
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So BARELY being in the top half = difficult? LOL! That is average.
Shocker, Big XII is down this year. Find where I claimed otherwise.
Why do you keep ignoring the Big Ten/Big 12 defensive performances in bowl games?
Why be a hok fan on an ISU message board? Sometimes questions don't have the answers you are looking for. I've been asking this question for quite some time.
Might be worth noting that maybe the Big XII wasn't as bad as everyone made them out to be this year. The league had a ton of parity and lacked an "elite" team but the round robin schedule exposes everyone. You don't get the benefit of having Nebraska's schedule this year or Iowa's in 2015 aka fools gold!
That's more than half the schedule and it's what you accidentally stepped in at the dog park.
Sure, the Big XII schedule round robin is always going to be tough, especially when there are only 2 bad football programs out of 10 and you are one of those programs. But the Big XII is way down this year. This is probably the easiest schedule ISU will have in a while. Conversely a SOS in the twenties to thirties is probably about as tough as Iowa will get being in the weaker division of a watered down conference like the B1G.
Of course Hawk fans hanging onto SOS when they know they play in a defensive optional league
The Big 12 had the better week.
The Big 10 had the better season.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/2016/conference/
Defense optional. Seriously just think what Park would do in the Big Ten. At least we can all agree now he is better than Beathard
Its funny that you would say that because across the river to the west the nebbie fanbase wants a lot more than a nine win season and losing to the Choke Eyes by 30 pts......Some Husker fans want to know why they fired Pelini, so its all about expectations boys and girls.
As a Cyclone... I could take being up and down if the UP's included conference championships and new years day bowl type games or cfplayoff games......
Under Earle Bruce I was unhappy with winning 8 games a year and losing to the Choke Eyes* and never getting close to winning a big 8 championship....Now I would be satisfied with any minor bowl game....Losing does that to you....
*see 1977 game for reference
The problem with your statement is that in 1976-78...we were miles better that the Choke Eyes, and yet their fanbase told everybody that they were still the better team, because we at ISU played nobody good (big 8 schedule)......The media in this state is so biased towards the Chokes, and that will never change because the Media hates our freaking guts always has and always will.....
I can attest its been that way since 1962......when I saw my 1st ISU football game
