IOWA GIVES GAME AWAY

by Adam Jacobi on Sep 27, 2008 2:18 PM CDT

Northwestern is now the worst 5-0 team in all of college football history after Iowa took a 17-3 lead late in the first half, then committed a series of unforced errors that allowed Northwestern to come back and win.

This marks the second straight week that Shonn Greene was unable to contribute in the 4th quarter, and once again his presence was sorely missed.

This will undoubtedly be an insufferable week on LTP as we hear about the Cats "never giving up" or some other vague shit. How triumphant to be given a win.

Horrible, horrible, terrible loss. The better team lost.

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One of the worst losses I can recall.

And that’s three times in four years that Iowa has lost to Northwestern in absolutely inexplicable fashion.

What I’m having trouble dealing with is the fact that this is the third, arguably fourth straight season, where it seems like about every other Saturday we’re left to discuss “the most inexplicable loss ever.” It’s becoming a disturbing pattern, even if the way we got there is different. I’m at that “it feels like Iowa football is never going to be relevant again” place. I got there years ago in basketball. I never thought I would in football.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go yell at my kid, kick my dog, and make sure I have enough bourbon in the house to get through the evening.

by DonnyDonovan on Sep 27, 2008 2:35 PM CDT reply actions

Better make it

Old Forester

by Buffalo_Joe on Sep 27, 2008 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions

stat of the game

3 fumbles on kick/punt returns, 2 lost. That’ll kill you every time.

I ain't tryin' do you, I'm just tryin do me
Last album did two, I'm just tryin' do three
-Young Jeezy "I Luv It"

by shake n bake on Sep 27, 2008 2:38 PM CDT reply actions

FLORIDA JUST LOST

HOLY SHIT, FIRE URBAN MEYER. ONE LOSS MEANS DEATH TO ALL COACHES. INEXCUSABLE!!!! TEAMS THAT LOSE SHOULD FIRE THEIR COACHES. KF AND KOK MUST GO!!!!!!!!!! SO SHOULD URBAN MEYER. FUMBLES WERE FERENTZ’S FAULT!!!!!!

LONG LIVE IOWA. WOOT WOOT WOOT!!!!

by imadirtyoldman on Sep 27, 2008 3:03 PM CDT reply actions

Overreaction!

Everything’s fine. This team is fine, this coaching staff is fine.

It was a fluke. Nothing but a fluke.

Be sad for a few minutes, then let’s look forward to next week!

Hooray, GO HAWKS!

by Ed Podolak of Good Judgement on Sep 27, 2008 3:23 PM CDT reply actions

Dictionary Def

Fluke: Fumbling 5 times, losing 4 and a DE happening to drop into zone coverage when Stanzi is throwing a quick slant

Yep, sounds about right

I ain't tryin' do you, I'm just tryin do me
Last album did two, I'm just tryin' do three
-Young Jeezy "I Luv It"

by shake n bake on Sep 27, 2008 3:31 PM CDT up reply actions

Here's a theory...

…go ahead and mull it around in your heads for awhile:

1) Iowa is not that good, and hasn’t been since about 2002.
2) Northwestern is good (or at least respectable), and has been since at least 1995. This year, they’re looking downright top of the Big Ten-worthy (honestly, NU should have won this game by 10 or so additional points)
3) Perhaps Iowa should no longer schedule Northwestern for homecoming.

by Chadnudj on Sep 27, 2008 9:00 PM CDT reply actions

I don't know where to begin, so I guess I'll use facts.

1) They won a share of the title in 2004, and should have in 2005 but for two bad losses, yes, one of which was in Evanston in the onside kick game.
2) NU is respectable. To say they should have won by 10 additional points is ludicrous and one could just as easily say Iowa should have won by 2 TDs (-4 in turnovers will do that).
3) Until Iowa again starts winning games at Kinnick it really doesn’t matter who they schedule for homecoming.

Thanks for your contributions this week. Maybe next year a classy NU fan will grace us, if such a thing exists.

by DonnyDonovan on Sep 27, 2008 9:18 PM CDT reply actions

I guess pointing out the unfunny is anathema?

I thought this was a comedy blog.

by beansbeansbeans on Sep 27, 2008 10:19 PM CDT reply actions

"Maybe next year a classy NU fan will grace us, if such a thing exists."

NU has fans?

I thought those 10 people in purple t-shirts were Vikings fans who got lost on the way to Tennessee.

by DHawkeye on Sep 27, 2008 10:35 PM CDT reply actions

Are you kidding me??

Let me know the last time Iowa had less than 10,000 fans for a damn home game you idiot. Also, like it’s been pointed out, Iowa had a very good season in 2003 and borderline great season in 2004. They were also respectable in 2005. So get your facts straight, and no, NW shouldn’t have won by more than 10 Iowa should have been up by 30 at halftime

by south_texas_hawk on Sep 28, 2008 10:09 AM CDT reply actions

Are you Serious?

1. Iowa fans are the most obnoxious, classless fans in the Big Ten.
2. Yes NU has fans and come take a look at Ryan Field in two weeks when we play Michigan St. and you will see a sea of purple.
3. Iowa is not that good and has done nothing since theyre miracle win in the Capital One Bowl.
4. NU fans have class as evidence by this message board showing how ridiculous Iowa fans are.
5. NU IS 5 AND 0 AND IOWA IS 3 AND 2!!!!!!!!!!!
6. So how about that.

by nufandan on Sep 28, 2008 10:55 AM CDT reply actions

Settle down, troll.

You’re an idiot if you think you can come to an Iowa blog, talk out of your ass, and not be attacked. Class has nothing to do with this.

Congrats to NU for being 5-0. But there’s no way, after 5 games, and ESPECIALLY after this weekend, that NU fans can honestly believe that they are the class of the BigTen. This game was gift wrapped. To say that NU should have won by 10 more points has convinced me that you are a complete fool. Iowa gives NU the ball 3 times, inside our 40, and you come away with 2 missed FGs and a TD, and to you that means that NU should/could have scored more points? C’mon. The Hawks attempted to give NU points, and they still couldn’t take them.

Brodell’s fumble before the half turned this game around. He holds on to that punt, Iowa goes into halftime up 17-3 and they have a different mentality returning for the second half. Coming out, knowing they needed a stop and getting rolled up for 4 plays and a TD to tie the game was deflating. Fumbling the ensuing kickoff? Absolutely demoralizing.

Again, congrats on being undefeated. Good luck trying to convince anyone outside of Evanston that NU is a team to fear, though.

¿Quieres chiclets?

by The Mexican't on Sep 28, 2008 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions

How about that?

Huh? How about that? You have three times more people in Chicagoland than we have in the entire state of Iowa and you are beating your chests that you ~~are going to have~~ might have 45,000 people in a football stadium on a FUCKING SATURDAY AFTERNOON? Jesus Jumping Jack Christ, re-read what you wrote and think about that for a second.

…

We had three seasons in the not-to-distant past where we fielded a team full of deaf and blind players and STILL sold 65,000-70,000 tickets. You dipshits are 5-0 and all of a sudden, you speak of front-running, butthole pirate tranny hookers in purple suddenly swarming Ryan Field like Sherman did Atlanta for the rest of this season. Get over yourself. You might have a school whose academic standings are second-to-none, but you, sir, are a part of a fan base that is the laughing stock of the Big Ten (and possibly D-1). Northwestern “fans” knows what it’s like to be a good supporter of their athletic programs like I know what it’s like to be an insufferable North Side prick who got his tuition paid for by his family’s trust fund and whose only means of getting pussy is slipping roofies in the fat chicks’ Zima. I know, no matter how much I curse the coaching staff, the play-calling or how we have consistently in the past three years found new ways to lose games I never have thought or imagined before, I will be accompanied by 70,000 of my closest friends every home game regardless of how good or bad we are. We will scream until our voices are hoarse. We will emphasize each and every letter of my home state over and over again after we put points up on the board. Go fuck your merry little self and have a drink in honor of us, to what it’s like to be a consistent LOYAL fan you stupid and very ignorant motherfucker.

Now, go run and tell your friends about me. Tell them how much I disrespected your kind with my naughty words about you folks. And while you’re at it, please inform me once again how much meth my family and I do and all the various tractors and animals I ride to work each day, because if Northwestern is anything, it’s creative.

by Twin Cities Hawk on Sep 28, 2008 10:45 PM CDT up reply actions

Apropriate Post Title

Iowa gave this game away before it even started by being as predictable as usual.

This is about as an unimaginative team as I have ever seen. Here’s a hint for the rest of the Big Ten. You want to beat Iowa? Drag a receiver/ TE 5-8 yards across the middle, just under our super-soft zone underbelly, and you’ll gain 5-10 yards each time. Iowa State did it. Pitt did it. Northwestern did it. We held off ISU but everyone else will kick our ass with it. MSU, Indiana, and Purdue are going to pick apart this joke called a zone defense and gain easy yards just like NW.

Want to stop us on offense? Give us some success in the running game. Once we are successful at it, we’ll seek “balance” and try to throw the ball. 1st and Goal inside the ten and we throw it 4 times? Like the OP said, a 6-year-old could see it.

We are so predictable that everyone is going to cut us apart and eat us for lunch.

by SavagePoop on Sep 28, 2008 3:19 PM CDT reply actions