It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It Breathes a Sigh of Relief
by Patrick Vint on Oct 5, 2009 7:17 AM CDT
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PrintAbout Last Night... You don't need to pinch yourself: the Arkansas State game really happened. There will be plenty more on Iowa's 24-21 win over ASU in The Takeaway, but for now Morehouse has it right:
Maybe it was complacency. Maybe it was the specter of Michigan. Or maybe, just maybe, it really was Arkansas State.
Probably all of the above.
Dochterman has a lot of videotaped head-scratching. Morehouse has even more, including Stanzi citing SUN BELT SPEED and complacency as two of the reasons for the afternoon's offensive offense.
The close finish buried Saturday's other story: The ascendance of Marvin McNutt, who hauled in 4 passes for 121 yards and a pair of scores, handled the last-minute onside kick, and repeatedly terrorized the Arkansas State secondary throughout the afternoon. Apparently, Marvin spent the week complaining about the fact that Adrian Clayborn had more touchdowns than he did. He then spent Saturday righting that wrong, and became the legitimate deep threat Iowa so desperately needed in the process.
In any case, Iowa is preparing for Michigan at 5-0 for the first time since 1995. So there's that.
Image is Everything. As if we needed more proof that the voters simply aren't paying attention, Iowa moved up three spots in the USA Today and Harris polls, and one spot in the AP poll, despite the near-catastrophe Saturday. Thanks should go to ESPN, which reduced a 3-point nailbiter into three Stanzi touchdown passes and a scoreline on SportsCenter and College Gameday Final. ESPN's repeated airing of the field goal blocks against Northern Iowa (even going so far as to make it the #1 play of the day on that evening's SportsCenter) made those plays, rightly or wrongly, the indelible image of Iowa football for a month. We'll assume this is their way of helping out.
Footnotes:
- Saturday's game has been declared a blackout -- THAT'S RACIST -- which has to have UI Public Safety up in arms; nothing is more conducive to creating a safe and orderly environment for 70,000 drunk people on a Saturday night than telling them to wear black. Also, Iowa-Michigan is now the only ABC night game (Florida-LSU is set for prime time, but on CBS), and will be broadcast nationwide. We're working on getting the Michigan shirts changed to black, but it's not looking good at the moment.
- Bids for the long-planned Carver-Hawkeye Arena renovations are due this week, with groundbreaking set for the end of the month. Included in the plan are practice facilities for both basketball programs, volleyball, and wrestling, a new strength & conditioning room, and new offices for 20 of Iowa's 24 coaching staffs. The estimated cost of $20 million is being paid from donations and debt.
- Things are bad in Champbana. How bad? Zooker is looking to shake things up, and nobody's job is safe. Yes, not even their four-year starting "quarterback" Juice Williams. Honestly, if it weren't for the fact that it's Zook, I'd ask what took so long.
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Angerer tore a ligament in his thumb on Saturday:
Looks like he won’t miss time, but those casts are a pain…particularly if it’s on your dominant hand.
Was it Klink?
One of our LBs had that huge cast a few years ago, and used it like a club. Angerer will find a way to use it to hurt people, like any good linebacker would.
by Angle's Dangle on Oct 5, 2009 12:43 PM CDT up reply actions
Blackout (vs. Mich. in 2005) < All Gold (vs. OSU in 2006)
70,000 in all gold was a treat for the eyes that night against OSU, even if the game was a giant shitfest, while the blackout against Michigan looked kinda dumb. I don’t know how a blackout during a night game is going to look in person and on TV, but I can’t imagine it looking as impressive as the all gold.
by Twin Cities Hawk on Oct 5, 2009 8:35 AM CDT reply actions
Disagree.
Penn State was a “Blackout” last year and it looked freakin sweet after dark. It makes the stadium look bigger somehow. Moreover, if we’re in the game at all (as we were for PSU) I think it affects the crowd psychology in a good way. Kinnick full of gold is impressive; Kinnick full of black is freakin nasty.
Of course with all black at night games, there’s always the danger of going full Georgia.
by Third Generation Hawk on Oct 5, 2009 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions
You NEVER want to go Full Georgia
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 5, 2009 10:22 AM CDT up reply actions
Penn State was a black out?
Cause last I heard (and I was there) it was a nothing. Students called Green out for Shonn Greene though. That looked kind of cool. Wisconsin was the black out last year I think. Also pretty sure Texas Tech had a black out against Texas last year. That looked cool.
I was at the Penn State game too...
The Greene-out was cool in the student section. The black out was a failure. If it isn’t a bright color your eyes don’t pick up on it. It was cold that Penn State game so it turned into one of Iowa’s trademark PART black-out, PART bright-orange-hunting-and-camoflage-out. Expect this game to be more of the same in the chilly evening. Farmers and their wives are wusses in the cold.
Why not Iowa????
If Michigan didn't have yellow (ahem, excuse me, maize) in their colors....
…I’d argue for gold. As it is…
People should remember that while they have the right to their opinion, they are not entitled to be taken seriously. --Bruce Bartlett
That'd be even better
They’d show up in their yellow shirts and, wah-lah, a full stadium with nothing but gold. Mission accomplished.
Remember, that one little section of gold in the middle of the Whiteout two Saturdays ago ended up being singled out on national TV.
But I’ll give this Blackout a shot and see what kind of magic it can produce.
by Twin Cities Hawk on Oct 5, 2009 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
wah-lah?
I’ve never read that before. Interesting. DAMN THE FRENCH!
People should remember that while they have the right to their opinion, they are not entitled to be taken seriously. --Bruce Bartlett
"viola"?
Are we replacing the band with a string orchestra? I guess that would go with a black-out being formal and all.
Everybody wants a little milk of Michael
What's this about a damn string orchestra?
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
The worst part about that blackout in 2005 is that we lost.
My friends and I stood outside Kinnick’s gates since 4am to get front row seats. There was a guy right next to us with “POOP ON MICHIGAN” painted in black on his chest.
NOW STOP IT RIGHT HERE
That blackout a lost of how impressive it
might have looked by it being an 11 o’clock kick under blue skies. Watching on tv, it was hard to tell that everyone was wearing black.
You know whats great about the SB Nation sites?
No edit feature, because why would anyone ever want to, or need to use it?
It sounded more like it was a "rolling brown out" used on his chest
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Oct 6, 2009 9:55 AM CDT up reply actions
Blackout
Will be interesting….I know that it will be very interesting to hear about Public Safety (aka [as they say down south] “the POPO”) will find a way to to “freak out” this week and whine about how it will be sooooo hard to keep up with ninja drunks ….the sale of 1,000,000 candlight spot lights just increased by 500%, findem’ blind’em take them away
_ They took the bar! The whole fucking bar!-John Blutosky Animal House)
by John Hartlieb is stiil a stud! on Oct 5, 2009 11:57 AM CDT reply actions
They said on the post game show...
that they went with a blackout because of colder weather and most peoples cold weather gear being darker colors.
"I'm not doing any good back here."
i was at the gold out vs ohio state
i flew in from iowa…stay’d at the sheridan downtown…3 ohio st family members tried to jump me on the elevator after the bars…got a hotel employee to get me and my buddy on the 5th floor i believe it was and was poundin on all the doors looking for these guys…come to find out it was a locked floor because the ohio st team was staying there and we woke up some players before the game…the cops came and i got to spend the night in the drunk tank…a step down from the sheridan but johnson county’s finest let me tell you…then got out in the a.m…(which was great if it were AZ i wouldn’t see a judge till Monday)…drank all day…went in the stadium and it was brutal…i still cry at night about that…then caught the a.m. in des moines home to AZ…not good memorys of the gold out for me…so i’m all for a blackout..damn ack ack acky hall
i don't wife em...i one night em
I don't know what's going on
But i think the “Shift” key is broken. I blame Twitter.
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Oct 5, 2009 2:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Great Photo
This made me feel somewhat smarter after reading the original portion of this thread.
They took the bar, the whole damn bar!
by recoveringfratguy on Oct 5, 2009 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions
I've re-read this three times
And I still can’t figure out what you’re trying to say. It’s like you’re using some weird foreign dialect.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Hahaha
Juice Williams=BENCHED. Why?? I’m guessing it’s because him and Darryl Clark are now facebook official homos and the Zooker doesn’t want them exchanging playbook information.
"My momma always said, 'It's better to eat shit than to not eat at all.'" --Rube Baker
Um, no actually
Occam’s Razor applies: the simplest explanation that incorporates all observed data is presumed correct. Here, Juice is a bad “quarterback”, Ron Zook is on the hot seat due to Illinois’ disastrous season to date. Therefore, the simplist explanation is that Zook is throwing his QB under the bus in the hopes that it (a) lights a spark in the team and/or (b) deflects criticism/blame away from Zook.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
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