What other message boards are saying (Post Iowa Edition)

[Mccage]

I might be from Sherwood but don’t you have to score to run it up?

 

[rk_kerk]

sorry you missed the 1st quarter

And it was 0-0 with Hill throwing away 3 points. Then field position tilted and the 3 and outs racked up. Tennessee was the far superior team.

 

[OHvol40]

Agree to disagree. Holding your offense to 21-28 points with an offense that went 5 plays or less on 8 drives and losing field position battle all game is a very nice showing.

The 5 other teams holding you under that were 1) top 25 defenses, 2) had much more capable offenses.

Is Iowa a top 10 defense absolutely not. Are they top 15ish I believe so.

Decent defense. Subjectively, the defenses that looked better against UT this year to me: Georgia, Mizzouri, Florida, Alabama, A&M. Maybe Kentucky, I’d say it’s comparable between Iowa and Kentucky. It really is amazing that your D willed your team to 10 wins in a P5 conference.

 

[york.adamray]

Classless??? Didn’t they have a player swing at 1 of ours???

 

[onevol74]

Woodshed and paddle with holes drilled in it are this way Iowa. That’s right, someone tell them please it’s not 1929 anymore

Reminds me of our shop teacher, Mr. Peters. An experience I thought I had forgotten.

 

[number1volfanfrom76]

Just curious, but what was Iowa's worst loss this year? Here UT is, middle of the pack SEC team, lost 29 or so players who opted out, and we beat them 35 zip! Somebody was not prepared!! Or may outclassed!!

 

[stolitonic]

Silly comment. Lorenzen--the Pillsbury Throwboy--could actually throw the football well. He was also a great athlete. Overweight, yes...but he could play. Deacon Hill can't play a lick.

Always made me nervous when we played KY with Lorenzen as QB. He was a very worthy opponent-regardless of his size.

The Iowa QB today? Not so much honestly.

 

[amaralfan1]

Am I crazy? I don't think the Iowa defense was any better than anyone we faced in SEC besides maybe Vandy. Iowa was like Austin Peay with a worse offense.

 

[Switch 625]

This Iowa team beat Wisconsin who took LSU to the wire, not sure how that looks for LSU

LSU’s Heisman QB didn’t play.

 

[Godfatha]

If we scored 42 I was thinking about a new truck. But, I'm always thinking about a new truck.

Keaton saved you some big money then.

 

[jsm]

Although their coach is good, it's time for him to hit the retirement button. Great on developing defensive players year in and year out but you can't be one dimensional all the time. Iowa needs, and deserves, a decent offense & coach F is NOT the person to get one. Just like Michigan skunked them, we did too. The lack of an offense was overwhelming and you almost felt sorry for the fans & players. They deserve more than this. Sad. So what does 10 wins in an offensive-less conference mean? Nothing.

Please

 

[jsm]

This is hilarious. They would have said we were classless if we had gone for that last touchdown. But now we're classless for stopping at the 1yard line and letting the clock run out. Frankly, I think that decision gave us the best of both worlds. Especially since they were ranked well above us going in.

They were ranked 17, we were 21. Yet, we were 6.5 pt favorites? Bizarro world!

 

[walkenvol]

Decon Hill is iowas Jarred Lorenzen

Nope - Lorenzen was pretty good, Hill isn’t.

 

[DC_Vol]

Am I crazy? I don't think the Iowa defense was any better than anyone we faced in SEC besides maybe Vandy. Iowa was like Austin Peay with a worse offense.

We put up an average of 30 points per game against power 5 schools in 2023. Put up 35 in the bowl game. You’re not crazy.

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

Im enjoying the contingent on their boards that are still dead set on how amazing their defense is and how that’s going to take them to the promised land. They are going to have to rebuild an entire offense from nothing before they will ever be competitive against a middle of the road team - and they get some company next year in the B1G that’s going to put up points beyond what their traditional foes do.

One good defensive game against Michigan is what they are hanging their hats on.

And I like them as a fan base. But man, they are hamstrung by KF having a stranglehold on that job.

 

[hardyemt_p]

Honestly sounds a lot like us when we lose.

Nailed it!!!

 

[UTwild82]

With Iowa having great fan support and the Big Ten being the one conference that makes more TV $$$ than the SEC, why in the world have they not ponied up big bucks to bring in a coordinater who can run a competent offense?

 

[DC_Vol]

Honestly sounds a lot like us when we lose.

And even sometimes when we win.

 

[chuck0303]

They were ranked 17, we were 21. Yet, we were 6.5 pt favorites? Bizarro world!

Well, you're right--they were 35 points off. Of course if we hadn't let the clock run out it would have been 42 points--imagine that!

 

[jsm]

I don’t know, I have been trying to put myself in an Iowa fans shoes. The one thing I can’t get past in that scenario is how on earth do you game plan for this matchup and NOT start the QB that has some mobility against us? The Statue of Pork made our defense look world-class and we all know that is a stretch. And he rode with him until the game was so far out of reach (to be fair, 7-0 was out of reach).

I don’t think you can excuse that call. Given that the B1G is changing next year and bringing in teams that are going to far surpass the Iowas of the world, I don’t think you can sit back and hope KF magically discovers an offense. They are going to get buried and left in the dust - and that’s sad, because they (generally) have a passionate and classy fan base.

Yes, this was a head scratcher. Ferentz had to know stuff after 25 yrs but he missed this one?

 

[VFL1993]

Love how UGA put up 63 against FSU and we’re the ones who are “running up the score”.

 

[greenbacknative]

With Iowa having great fan support and the Big Ten being the one conference that makes more TV $$$ than the SEC, why in the world have they not ponied up big bucks to bring in a coordinater who can run a competent offense?

Nepotism.....

 

[Other_Guy]

When did tenn run up the score?

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

Well at least Iowa won their first bowl game against Nebraska.

Could have been 63-0 with our starters like Wright and Baron playing.

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

This Iowa team beat Wisconsin who took LSU to the wire, not sure how that looks for LSU

You take away Nabors and Daniels and LSU is much less capable.