**2025 Iowa Football Season Thread**

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The Moon Family head coach is, of course, ignoring his lengthy history of playing freshman tailbacks immediately.
 

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It’s so damn stupid. Oh no, a freshman might make a dumb mistake and lose us the game. Better play an upperclassmen whose lack of ability reduces the chances of making big plays and gaining yards in general.
 

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Rob is an abject fucking failure with a stupid fake job that can’t get over the fact that he and his cadre of loser beat reporters failed to take down Ferentz and afterwards he went on to rip off a couple more double digits win seasons.

That has to get under his craw badly. Him and Morehouse (who apparently appears on his podcast lol).
 

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Ferentz played Young, Sims, Greene, Hampton, Wegher, Coker, Canzeri, Daniels, Goodson and KJ as true freshmen. They would have played McCall a lot in '11, but he got hurt after 11 carries. Moulton and Washington got some carries in '23, as did IKM in '17.

J Hayden Fry played Eddie Phillips, Norm Granger and JC Love-Jordan in 1980 for a combined 55 carries. Owen Gill got 24 carries in 1981 and Dwight got 13 carries in 1994. Tony Stewart, after a year out of HS trying to get a passing the ACT/SAT score, got 3rd team reps in '87.
 

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Ferentz played Young, Sims, Greene, Hampton, Wegher, Coker, Canzeri, Daniels, Goodson and KJ as true freshmen. They would have played McCall a lot in '11, but he got hurt after 11 carries. Moulton and Washington got some carries in '23, as did IKM in '17.

J Hayden Fry played Eddie Phillips, Norm Granger and JC Love-Jordan in 1980 for a combined 55 carries. Owen Gill got 24 carries in 1981 and Dwight got 13 carries in 1994. Tony Stewart, after a year out of HS trying to get a passing the ACT/SAT score, got 3rd team reps in '87.
Greg Garmon as well.
 

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Did Kirk benching Garmon for a fumble lead to him committing arm robbery? People are asking.
 

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Ferentz played Young, Sims, Greene, Hampton, Wegher, Coker, Canzeri, Daniels, Goodson and KJ as true freshmen. They would have played McCall a lot in '11, but he got hurt after 11 carries. Moulton and Washington got some carries in '23, as did IKM in '17.

J Hayden Fry played Eddie Phillips, Norm Granger and JC Love-Jordan in 1980 for a combined 55 carries. Owen Gill got 24 carries in 1981 and Dwight got 13 carries in 1994. Tony Stewart, after a year out of HS trying to get a passing the ACT/SAT score, got 3rd team reps in '87.
Amazing knowledge as always with this one. I think this is what allows us fans to get so angry about this. He’ll definitely let these guys see the field in certain situations (enough for the fans to notice they’re good), but against tougher competition or in key situations puts them back on the shelf.
 

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Amazing knowledge as always with this one. I think this is what allows us fans to get so angry about this. He’ll definitely let these guys see the field in certain situations (enough for the fans to notice they’re good), but against tougher competition or in key situations puts them back on the shelf.
As Hayden would say, "we're spoon feedin' him". We'll see what's going on by games 7-8-9. If Washington is still stinking it up and getting 40% of the reps, I'll be there with my pitchfork. I think my most prescient post came on the Sunday before the 2019 Minnesota game, an HR thread entitled "Time to start Goodson". The coaches listened and did it.😉 He had gradually shown he was ready. If McNeil is ready, it should be pretty clear. He wouldn't need to start, but maybe be part of a duo with Moulton, or maybe a 40-40-20 or 40-30-30 with Jaz getting 20-30.
 

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I'm not getting where this outrage is coming from about not playing McNeil. They are playing him. He's a true freshman and shown a few good carries against two of the worst teams in all of college football.

What are we even talking about here?
 

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I'm not getting where this outrage is coming from about not playing McNeil. They are playing him. He's a true freshman and shown a few good carries against two of the worst teams in all of college football.

What are we even talking about here?
calm and reasonable Doug….? Did you have a brain injury or something?
 

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Robert T Howe weighs in

My only regret is that I am promoting this publication and Rob Howe in particular.
Fuck Rob Howie and all, but holy shit, THAT'S the report that the university was so scared of?

Literally every example or piece of evidence cited was "student-athletes feel as though.." or "black players perceive..." followed by vague bullshit that happens in literally every football program in the country.

Maybe they should have tried not being members no-ball pussy loser club
 

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I think it was Danny Kanell who said Deion Sanders instilling a dress code and discipline at Colorado made him a strong mentor of young black men. You do the same thing at Iowa and it makes you a racist
 
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