Little Help Here

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 5, 2009 12:16 PM CST in Football Comment 34 comments

(youtube unrelated)

Do you guys remember in Ferentz's first or second season (you know, the lean years), right after the last game of the year (loss, natch), where some obscure offensive lineman was telling every reporter afterwards that Ferentz would have the Hawkeyes back in the Rose Bowl in 4 years or something like that? Do you guys remember who it was? I last remembered about 3 years ago, and Google was barely helpful even when I had the kid's name; now it's impossible. I've been racking my brain over this for about 48 hours and it is killing me. Winner gets a pecan sandie that I found on the floor of my friend's apartment. No wait, I ate that. Winner gets a three-seconds-too-long hug.

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Jay Bickford

is the player I believe.

by DodgerHawki on Jan 5, 2009 12:27 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I was first sucka

by rockyh on Jan 5, 2009 12:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Missed it by...

that much

by DodgerHawki on Jan 5, 2009 12:46 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

HUGGG

Mmmmm…. you smell good, Dodger.

You smell real good.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 5, 2009 6:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Thats all he gets?

No Buckeye sticker?

by Duez I say on Jan 5, 2009 7:10 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Jay Bickford

by rockyh on Jan 5, 2009 12:27 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

ok, even worse

I didn’t find it – but I did find this from the gazette, where you can search on all their old articles back to 1979. I used it to try to find the article in question, but came up empty.

http://www.gazetteonline.com/section/iowafootballhistory

by hdhawk on Jan 5, 2009 12:48 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

There's this one

http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2003/05/16/Sports/Resurgence.Of.Team.Credited.To.Ferentz-435552.shtml

by rockyh on Jan 5, 2009 1:01 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

The author of that story = LAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

by storminspank on Jan 5, 2009 2:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

hes gay lol

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 5, 2009 2:35 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

OPS - Intimidated by the thought of dozens of young, fit women running around in Spandex since 2003

http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2003/05/14/Sports/Testing.The.Waters-434969.shtml

by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Jan 5, 2009 1:07 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Those ladies were cool.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 5, 2009 1:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I was also afraid of them. But in love.

by imadirtyoldman on Jan 5, 2009 2:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Nice

So do rowers love sports writers? Where’s the dirt?

by Duez I say on Jan 5, 2009 3:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Having rowed in college

I can say definitively that members of the women’s crew team are never, never attractive. Unless they’re a coxswain. Or go the University of Miami (da U, not the Ohio variant).

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Jan 5, 2009 3:31 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I had to look up coxswain

Funny word

by Duez I say on Jan 5, 2009 3:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Two nits to pick

1. Miami (OH) girls, I’m told, are among the hottest north of the Mason-Dixon. They’re to hotness what jOSU is to football. And like jOSU, they’d never beat Texas.

1a. Putting a j in front of team names is addictively fun.

2. There were some good-looking girls on the Iowa team. It’s Iowa, for crying out loud. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an 8 or a 9. Where you’d get the dead cat is none of my business. Anyway, it’s not like they just went around freshman orientation and said “hey, your face is whack, get on this canoe” and made a crew team. The girls are fit, and it’s kinda hard to be unattractive when you’re in shape and 19. And a chick.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 5, 2009 3:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm sure they were attractive

But they had a lot of competition being in Iowa City. Most college girls seem hot now, but back then I remember being very picky. I dated a jew who had white nipples and was in the Big Ten Playboy issue. Broad bugged the shit out of me.

by Duez I say on Jan 5, 2009 5:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm.....yeah

We’re probably going to need photos.

Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon....

by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Jan 5, 2009 10:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

No problem

Might have to wait until I get home from work tho

by Duez I say on Jan 6, 2009 8:12 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Got it!

Somewhat safe for work

by Duez I say on Jan 6, 2009 8:41 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Okay Okay

Here (NthatSFW)

by Duez I say on Jan 6, 2009 8:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

She is not a Jew.

Viva la nuance! Reading comprehension rules!!!

by tyger1147 on Jan 7, 2009 11:32 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Trust me

Maybe more by association than by genes, but tis true

by Duez I say on Jan 7, 2009 12:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Nice work

I’ve always been a big fan of breast bottoms
(like Chocolate and Cheese style)

Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon....

by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Jan 7, 2009 8:31 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Amazingly

Walking around freshmen orientation going “You look awfully mannish” was the way the way they recruited the girls team at Georgetown. Since the fundamentals success in women’s crew are generally predicated on the same ideals of East German women’s swimming. If your goal is to put together a good boat, then Gtown’s efforts were successful. If you’re trying to find girls who don’t make ~~you~~your friend chew ~~your~~his arm off just to get away the next morning after the “dinosaur” drags ~~you~~him back to her lair.

Oh, and I’m quite aware the Miami (OH) girls are very hot. But Da U girls are much, much hotter, so much so that even the women’s crew team was hot.

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Jan 5, 2009 5:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Quick question for OPS...

So how long exactly have you been Testing.The.Waters. of muscular women?

by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Jan 5, 2009 6:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

There was someone else, too.

I remembered the same quote, it sounded really familiar when King said it. It was something like “I’d give anything I have to play another year at Iowa.” Roger Meyer, maybe?

I’ve been wracking my brain, too, since I heard King this week. Gave me chills. And fever. And some horrible stomach pain. Eventually they had to take my appendix out. But I think it was mostly a coincidence.

by indyhawk on Jan 5, 2009 2:57 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I am somewhat certain....

that that was Anthony Herron.

But not that certain, as I originally was thinking Derrick Pickens or Jerry Montgomery before googling and finding out that they were both on the 2001 squad.

by FrankGrimes on Jan 7, 2009 12:00 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Roger Meyer sounds right

And I have no way of confirming that, but it was definitely a senior starter with no NFL aspirations that I really wanted to see back.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 7, 2009 12:29 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Flatulent Fox and Manic Milkman were pretty good, but Dinner Dog sucked.

by Bucketochicken on Jan 7, 2009 8:07 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That's an unnecessary dig on R.J. Meyer there, OPS

Roger Meyer most definitely had some serious NFL aspirations. Why else do you think he started going by R.J. at one point? I’ve always suspected it was to make the scouts think he was black.

By the way, Wikipedia says that Roger was on the 2001 team. I’d not question wikipedia’s knowledge of Iowa football.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Iowa_Hawkeyes_football_team

by FrankGrimes on Jan 7, 2009 8:09 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Wasn't Nate Kaeding

the saddest senior ever? I seem to remember his barely being able to kick on senior day he was so choked up. I’m proud of him as an Iowa alum, plus he’s clearly different from the douchey Gramatica brothers.

by txhawkeye on Jan 7, 2009 9:43 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Ferentz makes ESPN.COM's 2009 crystal ball

http://m.espn.go.com/ncf/story?storyId=3790094

Big-name coaches could ride off into the sunset in 2009
Mark Schlabach [ARCHIVE]
ESPN.com; Jan 5, 2009;

12. Iowa fans will be nervous The Cleveland Browns will inquire about hiring coach Kirk Ferentz, who might finally be ready to bolt to the NFL. After a couple of not-so-good seasons with the Hawkeyes, Ferentz showed us again why he’s one of the best in the business.

this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.

by pfac51 on Jan 5, 2009 8:20 PM CST reply actions 0 recs