PS – Like the new layout.

as Iowa fans, we don’t get to play these reindeer games very often—as in ever.

Fish in a barrel… We’re the fish, Hawks are the barrel… Fish in a barrel…

Prof. asked what ’"post hoc ergo propter hoc" meant the other day. It was like I was in a beautiful dream.

Like a hemophiliac in a rose garden!

1999 Penn State starts 9-0, then loses its last three games and ends up in the Alamo Bowl.

So, yeah…don’t look ahead.

I haven’t read all of the comments and objections that people here have taken with the national media so I’m not positive what the discussion has been to date. I don’t think that anyone here is saying that Iowa should be the #1 team in the country. I do think people get worked up when they hear that Iowa isn’t as good as a pile of one-loss teams just because we’re Iowa or we play in the Big Ten.

I agree that any discussion of an undefeated season or a national title shot is premature given the way that we’ve performed to date and what we still have ahead of us. But I think it’s reasonable to look back at what the team has accomplished and realize that even though it wasn’t pretty, it was impressive.

post I’ve read this year on BHGP. Thank you, HS.

I, too, believe in the Karma thing. I strongly believe that the more we get ahead of ourselves, the smaller chance of victory we have for that week. So we all need to pull over like you did and do a good deed.

We are fans, not players. But I would feel much better if we approached our success the same way the players do. One game at a time. We don’t want to become who we beat last year on that cold November evening.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go slash some tires in my parking lot so I can help those people change them later.

I’ve said it many times, but all I want is for the Hawks to go to the Rose Bowl. If we beat OSU and one other team, anything the media says is (as always) irrelevant.
Go Hawks!

Please, get a new schtick. This one’s more old and worn out than your mom.

Cornshoe? What does Iowa have to do to get to Pasadena? Well after the heart-attack inducing win at Michigan State, I am done trying to project and predict. I told people I was nervous about the Indiana game. I’m nervous about this week. We are down to three one-week seasons. And I’m not looking past Saturday. And I’m done worrying about the MSM’s collective hand-wringing over our team. KF is only worried about this week, then so am I. I’ll begin my bowl-speculating/projecting on November 22. Go Hawks.

till the last 2 seconds of the Minn. game.

That is all for now

Damnit, I’ve been working all night on about 50 Pat Fitzgerald – Thai boy pics that I was going to unveil at 3pm eastern today. Real raunchy explicit stuff. Lawsuit worthy stuff. Oh well, back to the drawing board… Are unicorns considered gay?

Who is cooler: Steve McQueen or Paul Newman?

Nice, strong finish. Worry about the fall indeed. I’m trying to do the same with our opponent this weekend.

“At this point, we don’t deserve the level of respect that some are demanding.”

Considering that we’re just eight points from being 5-4 all over again, I can’t argue that.

But I don’t think people should simply disregard what Iowa’s done this season simply because of those eight points.

Do we belong in the title conversation with an undefeated Florida, Bama or Texas? Not yet, we don’t. But it’s silly to relegate us below other undefeateds and even some one-loss teams because of those close/fluky wins.

That said, we’ve got three tough games, and we can’t afford to overlook any of them. It’s been a wild and strange ride, and it’ll have to get stranger still to get us to January 7.

Go Hawks.

I needed that. Seriously.

The only thing that pisses me off is having Boise State ranked ahead of us. Yes, they are quite good. They also have a weak schedule and their signature win was over an Oregan squad who has since gotten much, much better…. and done so without Blount.

Now, let us all hope that JoePa lays some whoop ass down on the Buckeyes to buy us some breathing room.

vahawk wrote a shorter, but equally sobering and enthusiast post entitled “There is no Ohio State.”

The H1 headers look like a different font or size or something than they used to.

Despite the fact that our all around talent level and production and margin of victory don’t compare to the elites of the college football world (IE Texas), and that someone still hasn’t yanked that ace out from under our sleeve, the whole point is that we have nine wins and zero losses. I don’t think any Iowa fan is fooled by this team; they are simply a resilient bunch who wins ball games and plays best with their back against the wall. That makes up for talent and consistency.

HS is right, this is nowhere near Kirk’s best team he’s ever put out on the field, but it’s the best example of a team that represents his coaching style and influence on the program to a T. We don’t belong in the National Championship game, and we still may lose all three of our final games, but the point is how much heart this team has shown, proving it doesn’t take 5 star recruits and 4.30 forty yard dash times to win ball games week-in, week-out. And that, friends, is likely to produce more long term pride than any championship ever will. We do it our way, and we aren’t gonna change that…

In other words, “Fuck you, We’re Iowa.”

Sweet ass picture of Wegher’s, um, ass.

Great article, puts all this speculation in its proper place. That’s the double-edged sword to football; you have an entire week to over-analyze one 3-hour block of time.

Nice piece of work.

 Enjoy the ride, your team has been great fun to watch (and profitable, most weeks), and move past all the lame-ass sports geeks and their “lucky” rationalizations. Good teams make their own luck, especially when they do it week after week.