How you like that?

[NOTTHOR]

Ferentz, Kweefe and Co. shit the bed once more against NU. 4 out of the last fucking god damn 5 fucking games and those fuckers beat us again. Northwestern is a fucking private school that wears purple. It should beat Iowa once every decade, if that. I don't give a fuck that the QB went down, our god damned line should be able to lean on those little fuckers all god damn day and run it down their throat. Coming in cold off the bench, the backup should not need to throw the god damned ball 27 motherfucking times, certainly not 27 fucking times with about half of them being fairly deep passes.

You can look at the offense all fucking day, but the defense has got to fucking step up, but every year it is the same fucking story with those guys, offense has critical mistakes and the defense CANNOT get their offense off the fucking field. It doesn't matter who the fuck we have on defense, we cannot stop those fucking guys from dinking and dunking and converting every fucking third god damned down. Fuck this, I intentionally waited until tonight to throw down. I was relatively calm after the game, but the more I think about that god damned play calling and losing to Northfuckingwestern for the god damned umpteenth time, the angrier I get.

I know I called 1-11 after the UNI game and I know I called a loss for the game, but when they go out and play like shit and lose I still get pissed. Just because I know it is going to happen before it happens doesn't make it any easier.

For all the goddamned talk about how awesome Ferentz is, he sure does shit the bed a lot against shitty competition. ISU and NU own his ass. It used to be no matter how fucking bad we thought we were gonna be, you could circle those two games and count them as victories, and now the fucking program is at a god damned point where we need two fucking blocked field goals to beat UNI. I know, I know, "but we're 9-1 BTR." Fuck you. We're god damned 9-1 because we got luckier than shit in several games. You can't count on fucking luck every fucking week. We have a pretty mediocre ballclub, probably shouldn't be much better than 6-6 or 7-5 at the end of the year if you take off the Hawkeye colored glasses. And then of course, the years we actually have good teams, we don't get the luck and Ferentz ends up gagging against Iowa fucking State, and then in a year we have a mediocre team, we get all the fucking lucky breaks in the world and then go out and shit the fucking bed against Northfuckingwestern and now there is credible talk of the god damned mother fucking Champs god damned fucking sports bowl. Champs fucking sports. Champs fucking sports. Yeah, nothing fucking caps off a great season like a trip to Orlando to play in the Champs fucking sports bowl.

God fucking damn it.

Cub fans, console me, tell me everything will be okay. Tell me how there's always next year and through some fucking miracle our god damned fucking kicker can suddenly make a fucking forty fucking yard field goal. Tell me how our great coaching staff is going to figure out a way to win the time of possession battle against Northwestern. Tell me.

[Saggitariutt Jefferspin (ith)]

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[Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood)]

Why did I get worried when we were up 10-0? Oh yeah, because I knew we'd be in the prevent offense for the rest of the game........

[NOTTHOR]

can someone please make one of the FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU comics about this game? It is the only thing that could possibly cheer me up right now.

[NotMyKid]

Nov 9, 2009 7:02:48 GMT -6 Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) said:

Why did I get worried when we were up 10-0? Oh yeah, because I knew we'd be in the prevent offense for the rest of the game........

I don't think so, if Stanzi doesn't get hurt we beat them by 2 TD's or more.

That loss is on the OL plain and simple, our QB gets hurt they should have run the ball down their throat instead they all looked at each other and said what are we going to do now that our leader is gone.

[MoHawk]

Nov 9, 2009 9:00:30 GMT -6 NotMyKid said:

Nov 9, 2009 7:02:48 GMT -6 Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Heywood) said:

Why did I get worried when we were up 10-0? Oh yeah, because I knew we'd be in the prevent offense for the rest of the game........

I don't think so, if Stanzi doesn't get hurt we beat them by 2 TD's or more.

That loss is on the OL plain and simple, our QB gets hurt they should have run the ball down their throat instead they all looked at each other and said what are we going to do now that our leader is gone.

Totally agree. Wegher had it going on...we just decided to throw the ball rather than run it. As soon as Stanzi went down, I had a sinking feeling. We'll probably lose this weekend in Columbus, but IF we beat Minnesota, we're 10-2 and might be looking at a BCS bowl game still. Season ain't over fellas.

[NOTTHOR]

The line shouldn't need to look to the QB to be their leader. It should be the center. They shouldn't care who is taking snaps or running the ball. All they should care about is the snap count and pushing their guy off the ball. Eubanks is the weakest link on this team, hands down. Look at the second half against ISU when we put Koeppel in at center. It was the only half of football I have seen all year where our line looked as good as I expected going into the season. The line on Saturday looked exactly the same as the shitty 2007 o-line that damn near got Christensen killed. Morgan has got to do something. If we had a leader on that o-line, we go 11-1 and are a BCS lock, now 9-3 is more likely than 11-1.

[thunderhawk]

A few questions.

First, how many fucking third and long conversions by the opponents do I have to put up with before its OK to admit that Normball isn't so fucking great? Blitz in the redzone, you stupid fuck. You have to pressure the fucking QB.

Next, how many worse than mediocre offensive performances do we have to suffer through before it's kosher to demand some new blood at OC? You know why Keefe has NEVER been the object of interest by other programs? BECAUSE HE FUCKING SUCKS A MASSIVE COCK.

Keefe killed the season in one fell swoop Saturday. Fucking impressive one man show. He set up his NFL prospect QB (I know, its hard to fathom, but the NFL has keen eyes for Ricky) to get blindsided by an All American DE, and then he threw a completely deer-meet-headlights back-up QB (Keefe is the QB coach, btw) into the fire. My God. What a nefarious prick Keefe is. And then, knowing full well that the only thing said mindfucked QB would be competent at performing was hand-offs, Kweefe and Kirk decided to pretend that Rick was still in there instead of strapping it on, tearing the redshirt off Rogers, and slamming the ball down Purple's throat.

Don't let this "we're Iowa, we win with less talent" bullshit fool you. This team is absolutely fucking loaded with talent. All of those close calls this year didn't need to be close. Tressel would have been blowing everyone out of their stadiums with this kind of talent.

[hawkeyescott]

Nov 8, 2009 22:08:14 GMT -6 NOTTHOR said:

Ferentz, Kweefe and Co. shit the bed once more against NU. 4 out of the last fucking god damn 5 fucking games and those fuckers beat us again. Northwestern is a fucking private school that wears purple. It should beat Iowa once every decade, if that. I don't give a fuck that the QB went down, our god damned line should be able to lean on those little fuckers all god damn day and run it down their throat. Coming in cold off the bench, the backup should not need to throw the god damned ball 27 motherfucking times, certainly not 27 fucking times with about half of them being fairly deep passes.

You can look at the offense all fucking day, but the defense has got to fucking step up, but every year it is the same fucking story with those guys, offense has critical mistakes and the defense CANNOT get their offense off the fucking field. It doesn't matter who the fuck we have on defense, we cannot stop those fucking guys from dinking and dunking and converting every fucking third god damned down. Fuck this, I intentionally waited until tonight to throw down. I was relatively calm after the game, but the more I think about that god damned play calling and losing to Northfuckingwestern for the god damned umpteenth time, the angrier I get.

I know I called 1-11 after the UNI game and I know I called a loss for the game, but when they go out and play like shit and lose I still get pissed. Just because I know it is going to happen before it happens doesn't make it any easier.

For all the goddamned talk about how awesome Ferentz is, he sure does shit the bed a lot against shitty competition. ISU and NU own his ass. It used to be no matter how fucking bad we thought we were gonna be, you could circle those two games and count them as victories, and now the fucking program is at a god damned point where we need two fucking blocked field goals to beat UNI. I know, I know, "but we're 9-1 BTR." Fuck you. We're god damned 9-1 because we got luckier than shit in several games. You can't count on fucking luck every fucking week. We have a pretty mediocre ballclub, probably shouldn't be much better than 6-6 or 7-5 at the end of the year if you take off the Hawkeye colored glasses. And then of course, the years we actually have good teams, we don't get the luck and Ferentz ends up gagging against Iowa fucking State, and then in a year we have a mediocre team, we get all the fucking lucky breaks in the world and then go out and shit the fucking bed against Northfuckingwestern and now there is credible talk of the god damned mother fucking Champs god damned fucking sports bowl. Champs fucking sports. Champs fucking sports. Yeah, nothing fucking caps off a great season like a trip to Orlando to play in the Champs fucking sports bowl.

God fucking damn it.

Cub fans, console me, tell me everything will be okay. Tell me how there's always next year and through some fucking miracle our god damned fucking kicker can suddenly make a fucking forty fucking yard field goal. Tell me how our great coaching staff is going to figure out a way to win the time of possession battle against Northwestern. Tell me.

Can't say I disagree with anything.

The one thing I couldn't figure out is why didn't Northwestern just run a fucking QB sneak every time they had the ball. Hell they could have marched up and down the field all day as good as that play was working for them and probably won by 21 instead of 7. You could see it coming on every 3rd and short, yet we have our LB's 6 yards deep, put those fuckers at the line and if we get burned so be it but take a fucking chance once in a while.

[NOTTHOR]

I am content with the loss. We were playing with house money and a lot of games come down to a play or two, even for the better teams. The thing that irritated me the most, though, is that it seriously did not look like there was any game plan for the backup whatsoever. Not 10 passing plays that he knew and could execute. Not even 5. And then Keefe keeps calling the same god damned plays he would have called if Stanzi was in the game. And then no tricks. We're down in the 3rd and 4th, run a fucking end around pass from McNutt to DJK. Something. They took their own fans out of the game.

Now I don't want to go off on a Kirk bashing tangent here, but the difference between Kirk and Hayden is that if you put Hayden into Kirk's position on Saturday and he saw that display out of his QB, he'd have broken out every single trick in his bag to eek out a fucking win. End arounds, double reverses, fake punts, full on block punt pressure. Kirk, oh no, just business as usual. Play not to lose. Take a fucking chance for once, and when I say take a fucking chance, I don't mean run a god damned end around pass with a true freshman WR (DD) when you have a 5th year senior ex-QB (Manson) at WR against Texas.

Kirk gets the most out of almost everyone he brings in and he manages to win close ball games more often than not, but when push comes to shove, you've gotta roll the dice. What's the worst that could happen? Oh yeah, you lose the fucking ballgame which we did anyway.

[hawkeyescott]

BTR I agree about the gimmicks and everything else, not that I think Iowa will win at OSU, in fact it could get ugly, but if we are to pull the upset then KF better learn this week it is going to take ever trick in the book and there shouldn't be any holding back for Minnesota because the Big Ten title is on the line regardless of what happens against Minnesota.

[NOTTHOR]

We'll need some magic like that Nate Kaeding TD against OSU in 2003 to win this one.

[lpcalihawk]

I think BTR and Thunder have covered the ineptness of Ken Keefe. I would only be beating a dead horse if I gave my opinion on Kenny's performance.

There was no need for Vandenburg to throw 27 passes. We were only down 7 fucking points. A variety of run plays mixed in with some shorts screen passes and/or slants would have worked against the NW defense. I know, I know, I don' have the coaching pedigree Ken Keefe does so my opinion means nothing on offensive play-calling.

Should have won this game with or without Stanzi if we were truly the 4th best team in the country. I guess this shows that we are not. We need an upset in Columbus to save our season. I want to go to Pasadena to see my Cali peeps.

[MoHawk]

Nov 9, 2009 13:27:42 GMT -6 lpcalihawk said:

I think BTR and Thunder have covered the ineptness of Ken Keefe. I would only be beating a dead horse if I gave my opinion on Kenny's performance.

There was no need for Vandenburg to throw 27 passes. We were only down 7 fucking points. A variety of run plays mixed in with some shorts screen passes and/or slants would have worked against the NW defense. I know, I know, I don' have the coaching pedigree Ken Keefe does so my opinion means nothing on offensive play-calling.

Should have won this game with or without Stanzi if we were truly the 4th best team in the country. I guess this shows that we are not. We need an upset in Columbus to save our season. I want to go to Pasadena to see my Cali peeps.

This.

[NotMyKid]

Nov 9, 2009 13:40:49 GMT -6 MoHawk said:

Nov 9, 2009 13:27:42 GMT -6 lpcalihawk said:

I think BTR and Thunder have covered the ineptness of Ken Keefe. I would only be beating a dead horse if I gave my opinion on Kenny's performance.

There was no need for Vandenburg to throw 27 passes. We were only down 7 fucking points. A variety of run plays mixed in with some shorts screen passes and/or slants would have worked against the NW defense. I know, I know, I don' have the coaching pedigree Ken Keefe does so my opinion means nothing on offensive play-calling.

Should have won this game with or without Stanzi if we were truly the 4th best team in the country. I guess this shows that we are not. We need an upset in Columbus to save our season. I want to go to Pasadena to see my Cali peeps.

This.

Agree 100% and is why I put the lose on the OL.

Also for those saying the D didn't play well they gave up 10 points 10 FUCKING POINTS!!!! I don't care how long they were on the field they only gave up 10 points.

I really can't wait to drive 10 hours this weekend to see what pile of shit O KOK is going to throw out there vs. Ohio State.

[twine]

Nov 9, 2009 13:27:42 GMT -6 lpcalihawk said:

I think BTR and Thunder have covered the ineptness of Ken Keefe. I would only be beating a dead horse if I gave my opinion on Kenny's performance.

There was no need for Vandenburg to throw 27 passes. We were only down 7 fucking points. A variety of run plays mixed in with some shorts screen passes and/or slants would have worked against the NW defense. I know, I know, I don' have the coaching pedigree Ken Keefe does so my opinion means nothing on offensive play-calling.

Should have won this game with or without Stanzi if we were truly the 4th best team in the country. I guess this shows that we are not. We need an upset in Columbus to save our season. I want to go to Pasadena to see my Cali peeps.

I think we all know that Iowa wasn't ever the 4th best team in the country. We just had an undefeated record.

[NOTTHOR]

Hoff - the d was given a short field and no breather on their only TD, too. Gotta hand it to Ken having a RS frosh throwing right into the teeth of the defense on his first pass.

[NOTTHOR]

Nov 9, 2009 15:17:06 GMT -6 twine said:

Nov 9, 2009 13:27:42 GMT -6 lpcalihawk said:

I think BTR and Thunder have covered the ineptness of Ken Keefe. I would only be beating a dead horse if I gave my opinion on Kenny's performance.

There was no need for Vandenburg to throw 27 passes. We were only down 7 fucking points. A variety of run plays mixed in with some shorts screen passes and/or slants would have worked against the NW defense. I know, I know, I don' have the coaching pedigree Ken Keefe does so my opinion means nothing on offensive play-calling.

Should have won this game with or without Stanzi if we were truly the 4th best team in the country. I guess this shows that we are not. We need an upset in Columbus to save our season. I want to go to Pasadena to see my Cali peeps.

I think we all know that Iowa wasn't ever the 4th best team in the country. We just had an undefeated record.

Agreed, but when I looked at our schedule and what we had done, I couldn't name more than a handful of teams that play it and end up 9-0. And once we put it together and played a complete game, I don't think too many teams could have beaten us. But then the fucking injury bug finally caught up with us. Greenwood, Stanzi, all the RBs, Dace. Fuck that, Alabama ain't winnin' ball games with its 4th string tailback.

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[lpcalihawk]

Nov 9, 2009 15:17:06 GMT -6 twine said:

Nov 9, 2009 13:27:42 GMT -6 lpcalihawk said:

I think BTR and Thunder have covered the ineptness of Ken Keefe. I would only be beating a dead horse if I gave my opinion on Kenny's performance.

There was no need for Vandenburg to throw 27 passes. We were only down 7 fucking points. A variety of run plays mixed in with some shorts screen passes and/or slants would have worked against the NW defense. I know, I know, I don' have the coaching pedigree Ken Keefe does so my opinion means nothing on offensive play-calling.

Should have won this game with or without Stanzi if we were truly the 4th best team in the country. I guess this shows that we are not. We need an upset in Columbus to save our season. I want to go to Pasadena to see my Cali peeps.

I think we all know that Iowa wasn't ever the 4th best team in the country. We just had an undefeated record.

If we hit on all cylinders offensively and defensively, we were the 4th best team in the country.

Agree with Hoffa that the D played like a Hawkeye defense. They played good enough for us to win.

Our offensive scheme once Stanzi went out was our downfall against NW.

To beat OSU, we need at least 1 special teams TD. Defense needs to keep OSU from scoring 20 points.....which can be done. And finally, Ken Keefe needs to get on the wrong bus Thursday afternoon and end up in Bismark, ND.

If those 3 things happen, we win on Saturday.

[NOTTHOR]

We could win if Keefe pulls out a miracle game like he did against South Carolina. Didn't ask Stanzi to do too much, called some counters and decent running plays, used the TE a lot. Nothing fancy, Kenny.

[hawkeyescott]

Nov 10, 2009 9:25:48 GMT -6 NOTTHOR said:

We could win if Keefe pulls out a miracle game like he did against South Carolina. Didn't ask Stanzi to do too much, called some counters and decent running plays, used the TE a lot. Nothing fancy, Kenny.

You know that shit isn't going to happen, he will come out having JV throw the ball over the place, when something makes sense to do it then KK does just the opposite with the thinking he is catching someone off guard even if we don't have the personel to do something. I've never seen 1 person try to put so fucking many square pegs into a round hole and not be able to figure out that it just doesn't work.

[thunderhawk]

Nov 10, 2009 10:19:36 GMT -6 hawkeyescott said:

Nov 10, 2009 9:25:48 GMT -6 NOTTHOR said:

We could win if Keefe pulls out a miracle game like he did against South Carolina. Didn't ask Stanzi to do too much, called some counters and decent running plays, used the TE a lot. Nothing fancy, Kenny.

You know that shit isn't going to happen, he will come out having JV throw the ball over the place, when something makes sense to do it then KK does just the opposite with the thinking he is catching someone off guard even if we don't have the personel to do something. I've never seen 1 person try to put so fucking many square pegs into a round hole and not be able to figure out that it just doesn't work.

KOK tries to mind-meld the opposition, instead of taking what the defense gives or exploiting their weaknesses until they prove they can stop it. It's predictable and frustrating and causes the "if it's working abandon it" mentality. Guess what, Ken, you asshole...sometimes teams aren't able to defend plays BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FUCKING DEFEND THEM, not because you outfoxed them.

Really, the last straw with this fuckface should have been the Western Michigan game two years ago when Albert Young and Damien Sims had a combined 19 carries in their final game.

Unbelievable that this cocksucker is still ruining Iowa's offense after that display. Does the douche have some shit to blackmail Ferentz with? Because if he doesn't he oughta be coaching in high school.

[NOTTHOR]

Cosign thunder. Wegher is fairly quick and, in my opinion, could probably get some decent yards on a toss every now and then. In the past two years, Kweefe has run about one fucking toss, last year against Wisky, that went for like 44 yards. I can understand why he wants to put a play like that away. Don't even fucking get me started on the counter. Half the fucking problem with the running game is that we only run about 4 different running plays, off tackle left, off tackle right, dive left and draw on 3rd and 22 out of the shotgun with fucking Brett Morse.

[lpcalihawk]

Haven't the last 3 weeks with Moeki and Reisner been nothing but a repeat of the Western Michigan Sims/Young debacle? 3 catches in the last 3 games for our best offensive weapon. Get the ball to the tight end, Kenny baby.

[Master Blaster]

I really don't understand the mentality of KOK either. we have the weapons, use them. Get vanilla in the passing schemes RIGHT NOW and cook up some running plays that will get some yardage. OSU is going to own our asses without some all american defensive plays come Saturday. We won't run the ball with the half dozen running plays we use. And anybody that says we can win running at OSU is high. We need to run short easy passes for 5-10 yards, some variety in the running game that we don't normally do and get a break or two on defense.
All that being said, I predict a long painful day on saturday which sucks because I think with our original squad we beat them. And if shonn Green had not gone pro, Stanzi would not be a factor. We need the beast back.