Didn't Iowa wait until the second half to use Raider Package? I remember our offense being stymied by it. You got to give Iowa a lot of credit for the win. Iowa wanted this game bad, really bad. They were playing the ISU fight song in the locker room in the off season. They came in, made the right calls and the right plays. I know a lot of Iowa fans that deny the ISU game is a big game for them, but no way their coaches and players look at that way. It is a big game, for both teams.
Iowa vs Iowa State 2015
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Iowa plays the opposing team's fight song leading up to every away game. This is not to say that there wasn't a huge emphasis put on the CyHawk game last year. Ferentz was legitimately on the hot seat at that point, another loss to Iowa State could have been catastrophic for him.
Over half of the fan base was furious going into the '15 season and most did not expect anything more than seven wins. Iowa's home opener against Illinois State barely drew 60,000 fans, the emptiest I've seen Kinnick in 16 years.
I said before last year, that the Iowa State game was the most important game of the Ferentz era. I really felt it would be his last season if he lost that game. The anger of the fan base would have reached a boiling point that Ferentz would not have survived, unless the team won the West, but I'm not so sure if that would have happened after a bad early season loss like that.
I think more than the mediocrity from 2011-2015, fans were sick of losing to Indiana, Northwestern and Iowa State every other year. Shockingly, Iowa has a better winning percentage against Michigan, Penn State and Wisconsin in the Ferentz era.
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I agree with this but I think Ferentz has always put an emphasis on the game, not just last year
I won't disagree with that. More often than not, the Iowa State game is the most important non-conf game. Especially now that there's only three non-conf games and Iowa doesn't have another Power 5 school on the future schedules. Even when Iowa had four, Iowa would usually schedule a Pitt, Syracuse or an Arizona. I would rather beat Iowa State than any of those schools if I had the choice.
However, the main goal is to compete for a Big Ten Championship and because of that every Big Ten game is more important to me personally, but I can't speak for all Iowa fans. The exception was last year, Ferentz just could not afford another loss to Iowa State after 4-8 a couple years ago and then 7-6 and getting curb stomped 51-14 by freaking Minnesota
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Agreed. Every Big 12 game is more important to me and I think it's that way for all ISU fans but like you said I can't speak for them
Most obvious troll name providing least obvious troll commentary from the dark side, I like it.
Conference games are obviously more important, but it's definitely a game people look forward to winning. Or rather, it's a game neither side wants to lose. I have friends that went to the wrong Iowa university and, while we are pretty civil to each other most of the year, we are very capable of disliking one another for a few hours. It's not a super bowl, it's a rivalry.
To summarize: **** Iowa
To summarize: **** Iowa
Uhh what? Tim Tebow with a big arm? Have you ever seen him throw the ball? The last think you would say is big arm. He had a dud for an arm. That's why he rarely threw the ball more than 15-20 yards. His whole college career was built on throwing screens and quick passes(to 5 star players). His arm is similar to Jared Barnett. Lanning's arm is the opposite of Tebow.
There's some buzz about Iowa and ND starting up a neutral site series. Hope that doesn't impact Iowa v. ISU though.
Still waiting on your link to you-know-who saying he didn't play PG in high school.
That's what I figured.
Read it somewhere. If he played PG his recruiting profile wouldn't have him as a SF/SG
Lol no link, but someone has been listening to Marty & Miller and the OnIowa: If Iowa could play anyone hypothetical podcast
Scroll down, source is Pete Sampson at Irish Illustrated. I know it's not as rock solid as "read it somewhere" but all I said was there was buzz. This = buzz.
The only way it will happen is if they get rid of the Iowa/ISU series and Barta will never want to do that
Lanning wasn't that much better than Richardson last year, if at all. In fact, his throwing was worse. His running was definitely better though. He looked great against Texas, but was not good at all against West Virginia to end the year. I would be shocked if Lanning would have made much difference last year.
