Cyhawk postgame thread

It is amazing how many hawk fans I have heard grumbling about our easy schedule and how ISU winning 9 or 10 games with our schedule isn't meaningful. All the while completely oblivious to the fact that they have been the fake ID of college football fattening up on the pathetic B1G West for the last 15 years.

At least we’ll acknowledge from now until November we have a Charmin-soft schedule, unlike hoks who still like to pretend their former Big 10 West opponents were the pinnacle of strength of CFB.
 
I’m sure this has been said before but on game replays. I don’t think Iowa made their first FG. I know in the stands I saw the fans in the end zone say they missed it. On TV it looks like they sure missed it.

The ref’s incompetence kept Iowa in the game

We didn’t play our best, but without some pivotal bad officiating, we still walk away with a multiple TD win. Should have been a 20-3 type game going into the 4th.

Imagine our defense playing an Iowa offense forced to pass.

Oh well. On to Arkansas St. A shame this is a road trip. Just get a W, any W
 
Guy goes into a bar with his pet monkey. Iowa – Iowa State football game is on TV. Just then, Iowa gets a first down and the monkey does 3 back flips! Next Iowa gets a first down and the monkey does a series of cartwheels the length of the bar and back! Bar tender says, “Wow! That’s impressive! What does he do when Iowa wins?” “Don’t know.” The monkey’s owner replies. “I’ve only owned him 3 years!”
 
This is exactly the situation the Iowa pres faced in the 1960s when Evy ran the program into the ground and it took them 15 years to climb out of the hole. Barta and Ferentz have done the same thing. Hate to be Beth.
 
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Wow…read BHGP analysis of the game today…what a bunch of whiny excuse makers. No objectivity at all. One example…

”It seemed like the Hawkeyes had gotten a stop on the next drive, but an absolutely horeshit gift from the officials giving Matt Campbell a timeout when he clearly had not called it in time, kept the drive alive.”

And that wasn’t the worst of it. That Matt Cabel is an embarrassment.

The one that got a legit laugh out of me was this one:

“A few plays into the drive, Gronowski took a gutsy shot downfield on 3rd and 2 that was called for pass interference, giving the Hawkeyes yet another huge break on a Cyclone error.”

That “gutsy shot” was a ball thrown to a spot 30 yards from any player that was an obvious attempt to draw a PI. If uncatchable was still a thing it wouldn’t have been a penalty.
 
Aren’t most students working on a Masters in Beer Studies?

When I was first a student, Welch Avenue Station was a bar called The Library.

Once one Saturday, I listened to a neighbor on my dorm floor solemnly tell his parents he’d been at the Library until it closed the night before.

I’m pretty sure the capital L didn’t transfer.
Same here. The library was a block north of my fraternity and I often told my parents about the amount of time that I spent there. Then they came to visit and they understood The reality.
 
I think Rocco had an underrated game, if the recievers catch 3 or 4 of those really well thrown balls, the narrative would be different. He really only had 4 subpar throws i remember. The burkle catch I wonder if he was throwing to who tipped it or if it was supposed to go to burkle.
There's no way that anyone in college football throws a better ball to the sideline/deep fade. It's a work of art. Rocco isn't perfect, but he's the definition of a gamer. Our receivers have a ton of room to improve, which is an exciting thought beacuse Eskildsen/Overby/Townsend/ and even Sowell's physicality on the late catch have flashed some ability. If we can just get two to emerge, we are going to be really good on that side of the ball.
 
I'm pretty sure the tipped pass that Burkle caught was tipped at the line of scrimmage, not just a bad pass to Townsend.

So tipped twice, making Burkle's catch even more impressive!
The ultimate "ball don't lie" moment after the no call pass interference on the Eskildsen deep ball.
 
The slow mesh RPO or whatever Klatt was calling it really put pressure on our middle LB to decide what he wanted to do. Most of the time, ISU bailed out into coverage. I think Iowa only ever used it to run QB or tailback off the read though (which is what they are supposed to do.) Once Iowa got to a part of the game where they had to throw the ball, that particular gimmick wasn't really very useful any more.
I'm glad we forced Iowa to unveil it against us. Now it's on tape for all their future opponents to prepare for.
 
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The absolute-crime-pickup-up-a-flag-on-the-punt bullsh*t changed the entire game. Yes we scored a TD a few drives later but it gave Iowa an absolutely batsh*t unearned spark of hope and got them to settle down. And Mouser most definitely got conservative (a week after he said in an interview that part of his growth as an OC is not reverting to being really conservative). That was the type of game that had 27-3 written all over it and 20-0 at halftime.
What about that pickup-up-a-flag-on-the-punt? I understand officials never have to explain their calls/non-calls, but has anyone seen any reasonable explanation why that penalty was waived off?
 
I’m guessing the clock operator. The ref had an issue with him/her. Must have been a hook up in Friday night or turned him down
Yeah. The ref was somewhat diplomatic about it, but apologized to the stadium for the clock operator not doing his or her job.
 
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Kieth Murphy the other day dropped that Iowa has always been in the more prestigious conference.

I grew up an Iowa fan moving back and forth between Iowa and Nebraska during Hayden era. The Big Ten was absolutely never better at football than the Big 8 or Big 12. It was really obvious the Big 12 especially was far superior and I realized it even as an Iowa fan family, I could tell Iowa was very lucky they didn’t have to play OU, Neb, Colorado, ksu, Texas, A&M etc in the 90s and early 00s and got to play inferior slow teams. The day the Big Ten became the better fb conf was the day OU/Texas left combined with best Pac programs joining Big Ten, never before then.
How how about Gundy's great teams, Mangino at KU, Pinkle at Mizzou, the Air Raid at Tech. It was a great conference. Even when it went to just 10 teams it was good. It was a tough deal, going round robin in a league with maybe only one bottom feeder on ISUs schedule (most years KU). That is why Iowa State strength of schedule was so high most of the time. If we were playing all of those Big 12 West Schedules for a number of years we would have a better record too.

The Big 10 played only 8 conference games forever, most of the time Iowa avoided a couple of the heavyweights. As a matter of fact, in most of Iowa's regular season titles, the tied for it and didn't even play the co-champ. The Big 10 was able to get more BSC spots because they didn't play a title game and didn't have to risk a team getting knocked out. It was a propped up rigged league for years with national media lke Kirk Herstriet protecting them and propaganding for them.
 
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Even without the crazy catch, I thought Burkle had a really, really nice game.
I totally think Brahmer is a NFL player but Burkle might really get some looks.
Brahmer is another Charlie Kohlar, but Burkle is a combination of Allen, Soehner and Kohlar in the best way. He honestly might be the best player on the team.
 
Last year Rocco had 30 seconds and worse field position and led us down the field to win the game. Iowa easily could have tied it up, if not won the game.
Except you’ve discounted that they were up against the Cyclone defense and the mind of Jon Heacock.
 
How how about Gundy's great teams, Mangino at KU, Pinkle at Mizzou, the Air Raid at Tech. It was a great conference. Even when it went to just 10 teams it was good. It was a tough deal, going round robin in a league with maybe only one bottom feeder on ISUs schedule (most years KU). That is why Iowa State strength of schedule was so high most of the time. If we were playing all of those Big 12 West Schedules for a number of years we would have a better record too.

The Big 10 played only 8 conference games forever, most of the time Iowa avoided a couple of the heavyweights. As a matter of fact, in most of Iowa's regular season titles, the tied for it and didn't even play the co-champ. The Big 10 was able to get more BSC spots because they didn't play a title game and didn't have to risk a team getting knocked out. It was a propped up rigged league for years with national media lke Kirk Herstriet protecting them and propaganding for them.

I started watching football around 1988 and big 12 was the better football conference over big ten nearly every single year right until this last round when Big Ten broke the Pac and SEC took OU/tx. Hilarious we already see myths that big ten was always as stacked as it is now. It was slow football for a long time.