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"Those coaches may have a head start when it comes to recruiting, but let's see what happens when it comes to X's and O's" -Charlie Weis

Now that was funny. Hopefully it doesn't get taken down. And Brewster is a snake. I'm really not worried about them at all though.

Ugh, no he's not talking out of his ass and no Pomeroy did not add up their schedule wrong like you keep claiming. I will give you a break because it doesn't say it on the new updated page, but this disclaimer has been on the bottom of the schedules for years up until Sunday: "Projected record is based on chances of winning, and therefore may not conform to the cumulative game-by-game predictions. This accounts for the unexpected results that will inevitably happen during the season"

Iowa will have a smaller class and only has 12 commits thus far. The big ones are Brandon Wegher and Keenan Davis. Two 4-star, legit skill-position studs from in-state for the first time in a long time. They have another 3-star WR from Iowa and a 3-star back from Ohio that was the first commit. Other than that it's all 2 stars. Probably the highest percentage they've ever had. I just can't get as upset about it as I used to. I wish we had some more highly ranked recruits but it's more about keeping them on campus and developing them.

His "major contributors, significant contributors, role players, limited roles" categories are going to either need a larger sample to be accurate or some fine-tuning. Yeah, I was hoping there'd be an explanation on the main page explaining those, but there was none. He doesn't really measure individual defense, so those rankings seem to be offensive based only with in the very least a large slant towards scoring. The titles are more just fun to see so you can make fun of Chris Kramer being ranked "nearly invisible" After looking around a little bit, they seem to basically be completely based on usage rate. The problem is they don't put any weight on % of minutes or any other factors. Thus Matt Gatens is a role player (2nd most minutes, highest offensive rating) and Fuller who was practically out of the rotation and has only played 37% of the minutes is a major contributor. So basically if you had a guy that gets 7 minutes a game but chucks up a bunch of shots in those minutes and has a lot of turnovers, he would ranked "major contributor".

His "major contributors, significant contributors, role players, limited roles" categories are going to either need a larger sample to be accurate or some fine-tuning. As far as Iowa, yes we are a bad team right now. I'm much less optimistic than I was a week ago but I'll wait to see if they continue to regress before completely changing my outlook. Hopefully the week off will allow them to get it together. Yesterday was hideous.

Did anyone else see this quote from Urban: "If you notice, the NFL is not much different from the SEC with all due respect. If you're a player and you start in the SEC, you're going to the NFL. That's just the way it is." Give me a break

The Eagles are going to be in the Super Bowl (at least I think so) and they wouldn't have made the playoffs if the Bucs hadn't collapsed at the end of the year and lost to the stinking Raiders at home on the final day. We're possibly 60 minutes away from having the 4 and 6 seeds playing in both of the conference Championship games.

Well this Iowa team is doing everything it can to prove SSR right. What a pathetic effort in the second half. The Tate injury obviously killed them but it was no excuse for the atrocious rebounding and absurd turnovers. Minnesota had 12 offensive rebounds in the second half alone and many of them where when they were playing a small lineup to matchup with Iowa. Play close to average basketball for that 15 minute stretch and we win easily.

After winning at North Carolina the other night, Boston College lost by 12 at home to Harvard.

The game tonight was even uglier. At least the second half. The only difference was the officials didn't call fouls every other possession. IU threw some of the goofiest passes I've ever seen. Devan Dumes made some of the worst decisions I've ever seen. And really my point wasn't to discuss Iowa. I know you think they stink. They very may well stink although they'll win at least 6 Big Ten games. I'm just wondering how Illinois losing by 10 to such a bad Michigan team fits in.

Incredible stupidity by Devan Dumes and 6 missed free throws in overtime. If he's not an idiot that doesn't go to overtime. And bukie could you not tell that every line in that post was dripping with sarcasm until the last two lines.

Oh dear, how will SSR alter his projections? Iowa went from being much better than expected to a sure 10th place and not likely to win 6 games after beating IU by 5. Michigan beat Illinois at home by 10 the next day. Indiana is beating Michigan by 17 at halftime in each of their next games. So now is Michigan a sure 10th despite the good non-conference? How bad must Illinois be to have lost to a team that's losing by 17 to an absolutely awful team? Or should we probably not get carried away about the results of one or two games this early in the year? Maybe wait 5-6 games before being sure how the middle-bottom of the league will shape up. By the way I said Sunday that IU would win 4 games this year.

After the last run its more like Cunningham. I was just referencing his fumbles. They also have really strong arms and learning disabilities in common. Dave Pasch just had a line I bet NFL coaches/scouts loved to hear in reference to him: "The coaches say he's just a slow learner."

Nate Davis trying to be mini Daunte Culpepper

Anyways as far as the draft the Combine will be huge for Shonn. In '06 he ran the 2nd fastest 40 on the team. I would guess it would have placed him right around 4.5, maybe a touch under. Charles Godfrey was first and he ran a 4.45 at the combine. Then he had a year away from training, away from football and didn't really get back into usual shape until mid-season. I don't see him sneaking into the back of the first unless he's sub 4.5. Forte ran a 4.51 last year. His hands aren't great but aren't bad. He had a couple drops but Iowa just doesn't throw to the RB much. Albert Young had incredible hands and even lined up out wide a fair amount. He didn't get a ton of receptions.

You're right. Being the best running back in the country is meaningless. Remember, like you said no national champion in the last 10 years has had a 1,000 yard rusher. Wait, how many times did you backtrack on that? It's much more impressive to throw slip screens 1-yard in front of the line of scrimmage (or 8 yard ducks to guys who are fass) all year than it is to be the guy to stop on an offense and still get over 6 yards per carry and 100 yards every week.

I can't be the only one who noticed that the sideline reporter called Quan Cosby "Quam" like 4 times in that interview. And how about when she said "people were saying you didn't deserve to be in this game, much less playing January 8th"? Who said that? 3 Texas Tech fans? Yeah that was bad tackling on the last play but an even worse play call. Why play a 0 coverage in that situation and leave yourself open to that when you know he's going to throw short underneath?

Agreed. At least when it comes to being cool. And just being all around sick. I still can't get over this. Sorry Iowa fans. Thanks. I had blocked out that entire season post-Christmas. Ranked top 5 preseason by some and mostly stayed in top 10 in the non-conference. Favorites to win the Big Ten. Lost to Mizzou in Guardian's Classic (only to beat them by 20 later at Mizzou), Duke and at UNI which prompted Alford to throw away their pizza after the game and make them ride back to Iowa City hungry. Sitting at like 13-3 and after stomping Wisconsin at home my only concern walking out of Carver was whether we would be able to win the Big Ten and grab a 1 or 2 seed. We then went 4-11 in the rest of the Big Ten as the team imploded and quit.

So I decided to look up the 2002 Sagarin Predictor Ratings. The year Ohio State beat Miami in the Fiesta Bowl, USC beat Iowa in the Orange. 1. Kansas State 2. USC 3. Oklahoma 4. Miami 5. Texas 6. Georgia 7. Iowa 8. Ohio State I wonder what they looked like before the bowl games. Ohio State may have been out of the top 10.

Tarvaris played pretty well in the first half (outside of the pick) and the offense moved the ball consistently. Then in the second half we had absolutely no answers. Line couldn't protect against the blitz and Tarvaris couldn't get the ball to anyone quick enough. Absolutely could not run the ball at all in the second half. Defense deserved far better. They gave up nothing until the 71 yard screen.

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year? Or Illinois football this year? because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue. Over the last 3 years Iowa is one game better than Illinois in the Big Ten. We had a coaching move in the middle of that 3 years, Bruce has no such excuse. Except maybe that it can be a distraction to have players leave another teammate to die. What about the irrelevant Illinois football team this year? Why were they discussed? why just the past 3 years? but i guess a tourney appearance for the hawkeyes is considered a successful season, and that's just fine for a largley irrelevant program. you guys are doin great! you can go to the football thread to discuss illinois football if you'd like. i thought this was the basketball thread. but if you're asking me, illinois football was just about irrelevant enough to beat the hawkeyes. I was obviously cherry-picking the numbers to help state my case. But the fact remains that Illinois hasn't been relevant since Deron Williams left. No more relevant than Iowa. You don't want anyone to discuss irrelevant teams. Yet you continually discussed (well actually you just whined about officiating and how only you are doomed to root for teams with terrible luck) Illinois football. They were completely irrelevant this year and haven't been any more relevant historically than Iowa basketball. And if you want to go the head-to-head route, I wasn't bragging when Iowa beat Illinois in '07. We stunk, they went to the Rose Bowl. It didn't really mean much.

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year? Or Illinois football this year? because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue. Over the last 3 years Iowa is one game better than Illinois in the Big Ten. We had a coaching move in the middle of that 3 years, Bruce has no such excuse. Except maybe that it can be a distraction to have players leave another teammate to die. What about the irrelevant Illinois football team this year? Why were they discussed? Ah what the heck lets just do the whole decade to get a better idea of who has had the better program. I'd rather not

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year? Or Illinois football this year? because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue. Over the last 3 years Iowa is one game better than Illinois in the Big Ten. We had a coaching move in the middle of that 3 years, Bruce has no such excuse. Except maybe that it can be a distraction to have players leave another teammate to die. What about the irrelevant Illinois football team this year? Why were they discussed?

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year? Or Illinois football this year? Well I guess they were relevant for the unintentional comedy provided weekly by "The Journey"