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MNCyGuy

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I think there's no chance in hell of the Big 10 going to 9 conference games for this very reason.

Doesn't the Big 12 and Pac 12 have a basketball challenge or did I just imagine it?

They had it for 2 years, but it wasn't renewed. Too many hard feelings from the realignment drama I'd imagine.
 

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Well, the '08 and '09 classes were duds, but the '10 and '11 classes will pan out to be AWESOME. Just you watch.

Reminds me of the Hawk fan I work with. Kept telling me all off-season how Iowa was going to be a 10 win team because A) their schedule was soft (he was right about that), B) Marcus Coker's back up, Rodney Coe would be a great change-of-pace (whoops), and C) because CJ Fiedorwicz (sp?) was going to be completely unstoppable (lulz).

Coe will be back at Iowa for his junior/senior years but he'll most likely be a DT or DE. Fiedorowicz will be unstoppable. The light went on this season, he will dominate for the next 2 years and be the next great Iowa TE.
 

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They had it for 2 years, but it wasn't renewed. Too many hard feelings from the realignment drama I'd imagine.

yeah, I could imagine that would create some hard feelings.

Anyway, a poster on HN said Barta confirmed that the Big 10 will stay at 8 conference games (via Marc Morehouse twitter). So ISU/Iowa isn't going anywhere.
 

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So in the span of a couple weeks here is all that has happened in IC. Coker is suspended and being investigated for criminal charges according to the IC radio station, rumor of what he has done has already been posted on this site, he will not be back if this rumor is true. McCall has left the team and Colin Sleeper was sent home from the bowl game, who knows if he will be back. Team finishes 7-5 with one of the easiest schedules in the country. The backbone for Iowa the last 10 years announces his retirement. Did I miss anything?

Over half of what you said is rumor at this point. The only thing you got right is the record and Norm's retirement.
 

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Coe will be back at Iowa for his junior/senior years but he'll most likely be a DT or DE. Fiedorowicz will be unstoppable. The light went on this season, he will dominate for the next 2 years and be the next great Iowa TE.
Dont think that too soon on Coe, I have a friend that goes IW and he is being courted by some Florida schools. Its likely 50/50 he is back in IC. Also when did Fiedorowicz dominate? Didnt he average like two catches a game?
 

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LOL, ok. Iowa had a couple ****-poor recruiting classes in 08 and 09 and now they're paying for it. But the program is not "starting to fall apart" by any means. Look at the recruiting class from 10, 11 and this year. A program that is "falling apart" does not attract talent like that. Iowa will have another down season next year, win 6-8 games and go to another crappy bowl game. In 2 years the Hawks will return to the upper half of the Big 10.

Upper half of the Big 10? Well, that's not very hard.
 

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Coe will be back at Iowa for his junior/senior years but he'll most likely be a DT or DE. Fiedorowicz will be unstoppable. The light went on this season, he will dominate for the next 2 years and be the next great Iowa TE.

Or maybe he won't. He didn't look that great this year, but admittedly I only watched about 3.5 Iowa (ISU, Pitt, Minnesota and some of Nebraska) games this year and didn't catch much more than highlights from the others.
 

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Coe will be back at Iowa for his junior/senior years but he'll most likely be a DT or DE. Fiedorowicz will be unstoppable. The light went on this season, he will dominate for the next 2 years and be the next great Iowa TE.

The light only went on momentarily for Fiedorowicz in the NU game. I would not count on him maintaining that light given his lack of blocking skills which kept him as a backup to the likes of walkon Zach Derby this past season.
 

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Dont think that too soon on Coe, I have a friend that goes IW and he is being courted by some Florida schools. Its likely 50/50 he is back in IC. Also when did Fiedorowicz dominate? Didnt he average like two catches a game?

The HC at IW says your friend is wrong. He was asked about Coe's progress a few months ago and says his plan is still to play at Iowa.
 

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Jim Delaney staying one step ahead of everyone else once again. Most powerful man in college sports.
 

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Coe will be back at Iowa for his junior/senior years but he'll most likely be a DT or DE. Fiedorowicz will be unstoppable. The light went on this season, he will dominate for the next 2 years and be the next great Iowa TE.

So you slam one person for bringing up rumors, but you drop this beauty as if it's fact.
 
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DJK15

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The light only went on momentarily for Fiedorowicz in the NU game. I would not count on him maintaining that light given his lack of blocking skills which kept him as a backup to the likes of walkon Zach Derby this past season.

Saying that CJF lacks blocking skills tells me all I need to know about your opinion. There's a reason he finally jumped Derby/Herman - he learned how to block. The playmaking abilities were always there, now he's the total package at TE.
 

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Jim Delaney staying one step ahead of everyone else once again. Most powerful man in college sports.

So, they're going to take more money in exchange for another roadblock for their teams trying to make it to the BCS championship game. Somewhere, the SEC is cackling and rolling a blunt.

I think Delaney sees the writing on the wall in terms of a plus-1 model (if not a full blown playoff). The days of scheduling patsies just to go undefeated are likely about over.