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Post by NotMyKid on Dec 15, 2014 16:03:16 GMT -6
This might be the most spot on article written about KF. Both good and bad. I don't agree with 100% of everything in the article (and warning it is long) but overall it is very well done and makes all the points as to why the football program is where it is at currently. www.blackheartgoldpants.com/2014/12/15/7364529/thats-football-kirk-ferentz-iowa-hawkeyesJust a taste- Iowa doesn't have better talent than many of the teams it faces, and so slow tempo is a survival mechanism, a chance to let variance work in its favor. When coupled with reduced negative variance due to execution, it's a recipe for staying in the fight against the Ohio States and (formerly) Michigans of the world, and Ferentz's record of wins and closer-than-expected losses against those programs speaks to its general success.
Of course, when you use it against lesser opponents, it lets those opponents stay in the game, as well. The dogmatic adherence to slow-down offense that keeps Iowa within a touchdown of Ohio State is the same dogma that has Iowa losing to 2-10 Iowa State or 4-8 Central Michigan or 2-10 Minnesota, et cetera. Over a long enough timeline, Iowa should have enough talent and experience to win those games. But when the timeline is compressed and variance like Steele Jantz happens, those games can be (and too often are) lost.
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Post by TaterWanger on Dec 15, 2014 16:15:59 GMT -6
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Post by egadsto on Dec 15, 2014 16:18:16 GMT -6
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Post by Other on Dec 15, 2014 16:48:28 GMT -6
Hey Ice,
Can we talk about booze up in this motherfucker?
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Post by Stan's Field on Dec 15, 2014 21:45:31 GMT -6
Y u bring me into it?
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Post by Other on Dec 15, 2014 21:57:15 GMT -6
Had anything good lately? I'm drinkin' the Scotch tonight. Also there was another weird random release of LeTerroir and La Folie last week fyi.
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Post by Stan's Field on Dec 15, 2014 22:28:19 GMT -6
Well I'll be............. I aint been drinking much beerz lately. Nothing special anyhow. Fyi: I feel like breakfast stout kinda sucks anymore.
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Post by Earl Slick on Dec 16, 2014 5:01:23 GMT -6
That's interesting.
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Post by Ginger on Dec 16, 2014 7:00:30 GMT -6
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Dec 16, 2014 8:29:00 GMT -6
When I waz watching leh Hox-clown game, someone iced me with a Mike's Hard Lemonade. I said "You can't ice someone with a Mike's hard lemonade!" Then I looked at the label, and it was a "Mike's Lite", and I immediately knew that was enough of a bitch drinj to ice someone with.
It was terrible.
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Post by FoxHuntChampion on Dec 16, 2014 8:30:38 GMT -6
When I waz watching leh Hox-clown game, someone iced me with a Mike's Hard Lemonade. I said "You can't ice someone with a Mike's hard lemonade!" Then I looked at the label, and it was a "Mike's Lite", and I immediately knew that was enough of a bitch drinj to ice someone with. It was terrible. Wow.
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Post by Ginger on Dec 16, 2014 9:04:45 GMT -6
In the context of ur story, wut does "ice" (verb) mean? Brain freeze? Brain ferrets? Hit in the head with a bottle?
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Post by Stan's Field on Dec 16, 2014 20:27:01 GMT -6
Ghost sounds like a puss
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