It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It: Stanzi Time in Kansas City?

Good grief I think you found the one sentence in that comment that not missing any or had any extra words. This is what happens when I BHGP at work, sheesh.

as Ross mentions, a lot of the guys have seemingly been passed by underclassmen on the depth chart. And the injured triumvirate is by no means certain to make any kind of a comeback, of the three, I suspect only MacMillan will see meaningful playing time going forward — Alvis’ injury is severe, and will leave him out of any kind of practicing until at least next summer and DiBona has already proven to be injury prone (he was hurt for significant parts of 2010 as well).

Like you, I really hope we get Coe back

And Morehouse has said more than a few times on his weekly chat over at Hawkeye Report that he thinks Derby is a starter kit for an Aaron Kampman-type player. Good athlete, has the frame to grow.

I hope Tiny Alvis is able to come back, but the timing of that injury could all but kill his chances of being able to produce in the 2012 season. We’ve seen running backs get hurt during pre-season fall practice and still not be able to contribute that much by the time the next season rolls around. It’s possible we don’t see him again until the 2013 season.

DiBona and Getz…. I just don’t know. It is too soon to write anyone off, but (a) they haven’t impressed too much when they have played and (b) Iowa has a bit of a stockpile of young linebackers at the moment: Morris, Kirksey, Hitchens, Alston, Derby, etc. I hope they can make an impact — if nothing else, maybe can be good special teamers — but I’m not overly optimistic.

Then again, none of them walked out with the seniors the other day, so they obviously haven’t made that decision yet. (Jason White was/is also in his junior year of eligibility, but he did walk out with the seniors since he’s decided not to stick around for a fifth year.)

Re: reaches… I’ve been thinking the same thing and working on some breakdowns of the 2* recruits over time. Something to dig into after the weekly grind of the season wraps up.

At least there’s some depth at LB (whether it’s good or not remains to be seen).

That Ethiake (sp?) kid from the Chicagoland area and Quanzell Lambert (LB, former teammate of Quinton Alston) would be excellent pick-ups with this class.

or guard?

Living out here, honestly, Stanford’s fan base might actually have a smaller radius than ISU’s in Iowa (but encompassing more people because of the population density of the Bay Area). Stanford is basically a successful version of jNW – if jNW was better year in and year out (Stanford has had some stinker years but because of the relative overall weakness, year in and out of the Pac12/16/whateveritisthis week), they would probably be getting the same hype as Stanford because of their location in a major media market in Chicago.

But like jNW, it costs a lot – a LOT – of money to go to Stanford, and that pretty much leaves Joe Schmoe college student/fan out of any realistic access to the Stanford fan experience; whereas more affordable public college like Iowa will get non-Iowa grads (or even non college grads) as fans, because People Can See Themselves Going To School There. So therefore, they’re more likely to travel well with teams that have that sense of more open access to the general public.

My personal opinion why Stanford keeps being good on and off has more to do with Stanford being a school that – at least it seems to me – as being either a training ground for a good coach to get to a better college job or to jump to the pros, like Harbaugh did, after posting a good record there. You’d think with the mild weather in the Bay Area that Cal would be more of a power than they are, but Cal is a tough school academically and its not exactly a place either where football is King (remember the people who camped in the trees for months because they didn’t want them torn down for stadium purposes?)… I think if Cal didn’t have a reputation as being both academically tough and wacko liberal that they’d be a better football school than they are… which means Stanford tends to pick up the athletes going to the Bay Area to play football perhaps more so than Cal. I don’t know, but college football in California doesn’t have the insane fan following that you see in the Midwest or the South…

But I think any bowl takes a 9-3 UM or UNL over an 11-1 Stanford. There’s just too much filthy luchre coming from those fanbases, “fairness” be damned. They just have to get eligible.

I wonder if he’s still as awful as he was last year.

is what I meant, of course. Yeesh

And look at attrition rates, before you can determine whether this a bump in the road or a bigger issue at Iowa, or simply a Ferentz regime problem.