**2025 Iowa Football Season Thread**

[Mr. Hawk]

Humour

 

[AZmessDAWG]

Kurt’s dry sense of homour often uses me.

I bet it does.

 

[The Dad]

Kurt’s dry sense of homour often uses me.

Post like a woman on Facebook day?

Are you “here for it”?

In other words….

 

[KitKatApples]

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Kurt is a dumb fuck who got rich off other dumb ducks

 

[KitKatApples]

So he's like most rich guys?

 

[CurdMan]

Kurt is a dumb fuck who got rich off other dumb ducks

That he hired! This is how you operate a successful business, numbnuts

 

[L. Wade Childress]

That he hired! This is how you operate a successful business, numbnuts

Kurt hired ducks?

 

[The Dad]

 

[douglasbader]

I still can't believe they kept kicking to him. If not for the punter saving them twice, he would have had 3 TD returns yesterday.

 

[The Dad]

It was good they were pressuring the punter a bit so he had to worry more about getting it off and less about direction.

 

[Whatever]

He’s averaging 28.3 yards a return this year which is crazy. Looks like the college record is 28.5. Dwight was incredible and he averaged 19 yards his last two years.

 

[WCFHawkeye]

 

[HiawathaHawk]

Finish the regular season ranked 15th in SP+. 48th on offense, 7th on defense, 25th in special teams.

 

[Thrawn II]

Finish the regular season ranked 15th in SP+. 48th on offense, 7th on defense, 25th in special teams.

it’s the basically the 2008 season except for Oregon getting the inch-perfect pass to escape being the November upset

 

[Thrawn II]

There are fewer advanced stats that far back but the 2001 team also had dumb luck in close games and narrowly missed a dramatic upset but were at least top 15 in Sagarin predictor IIRC

 

[The Dad]

Stratton in the portal.

 

[douglasbader]

Stratton in the portal.

Who's that?

 

[cloudhawk]

Not Hank Brown

 

[douglasbader]

Shit.

 

[The Dad]

Who's that?

Better than Bacon.

 

[douglasbader]

Better than Bacon.

Oh yeah, forgot all about him.

 

[Fritz Fequiere]

That’s undefeated as a starting Iowa quarterback Jackson Stratton

 

[CamelTones]

There are fewer advanced stats that far back but the 2001 team also had dumb luck in close games and narrowly missed a dramatic upset but were at least top 15 in Sagarin predictor IIRC

The Michigan game that year was brutal. The Marquis Walker catch, Kirk sticking with McCann over Banks, McCann missing an open Chris Oliver at the end. The Iowa State game that was moved because of 9/11, don’t remember if the game was tied or Iowa was down 3 when Grant Steen intercepted a pass in the 4th quarter then fumbled it back to Iowa State. Iowa never got the ball back. Finally broke through against Texas Tech.

 

[Thrawn II]

The Michigan game that year was brutal. The Marquis Walker catch, Kirk sticking with McCann over Banks, McCann missing an open Chris Oliver at the end.

Matt Stockdale got hurt and Michigan went at Ejiasi seemingly every play after that. Kaeding also fumbled a snap on a punt from the end zone that was either recovered or just had it blocked for a TD right before halftime. I think that was the end of Kaeding and Bradley splitting punts.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Who's that?

rush chairman. He’s damn glad to meet you.

 

[douglasbader]

#23 in the CFP rankings.

 

[The Dad]

 

[CamelTones]

The Kirk double thumbs up after the Nebrantska fumble at 12:29 is the best part.

 

[Nobody]

 

[Hawk24]

Nm

 

[douglasbader]

Nm

Fuck you.

 

[CurdMan]

Chris Williams made the comment that “Rogers won his introductory press conference.” I watched it and then for shits and giggles watched KFs intro PC from 27 years ago. My god, that’s a great listen and makes you really appreciate what Iowa has with KF. I’m not sure that Kirk was confident that he would win at Iowa, but you can tell that he was completely comfortable being himself (which is probably where some of his stubbornness comes from). He also came across really well and relatable to Iowans.

 

[fuisu98]

It’s a surreal watch, it’s kind of insane how much everything about college football has changed and gotten so massive. Bowlsby mentioned that they were still working on his compensation/contract. That would never happen today.

 

[BBK]

It’s a surreal watch, it’s kind of insane how much everything about college football has changed and gotten so massive. Bowlsby mentioned that they were still working on his compensation/contract. That would never happen today.

Allegedly it happened in Iowa just last week.

Allegedly

 

[Thrawn II]

Chris Williams made the comment that “Rogers won his introductory press conference.”

Feel like I’ve heard this about every major hire, at least with local FB/CBB. Trying to imagine how a coach would lose the presser.

Like even with Drake MBB hired Ray Giacoletti, a terrible hire that I hated at the time, I remember watching his first PC and thinking that maybe I was wrong to hate the hire.

 

[Gushawk]

Yet another thing Dumb Don fundamentally misunderstands:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-no-guarantee-the-feds-rate-cuts-will-lower-the-rates-that-matter-105955625.html

There’s a non black swan chance that he and his toadies are taking this fucker down. His stupidity will certainly leave our role in the world’s economy and markets substantially weaker.

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

Yet another thing Dumb Don fundamentally misunderstands:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-no-guarantee-the-feds-rate-cuts-will-lower-the-rates-that-matter-105955625.html

There’s a non black swan chance that he and his toadies are taking this fucker down. His stupidity will certainly leave our role in the world’s economy and markets substantially weaker.

Fuck you

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Yet another thing Dumb Don fundamentally misunderstands:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-no-guarantee-the-feds-rate-cuts-will-lower-the-rates-that-matter-105955625.html

There’s a non black swan chance that he and his toadies are taking this fucker down. His stupidity will certainly leave our role in the world’s economy and markets substantially weaker.

How will the fed rate cut affect who we look at in the portal?

 

[Herky823]

Feel like I’ve heard this about every major hire, at least with local FB/CBB. Trying to imagine how a coach would lose the presser.

Like even with Drake MBB hired Ray Giacoletti, a terrible hire that I hated at the time, I remember watching his first PC and thinking that maybe I was wrong to hate the hire.

 

[The Dad]

Yet another thing Dumb Don fundamentally misunderstands:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-no-guarantee-the-feds-rate-cuts-will-lower-the-rates-that-matter-105955625.html

There’s a non black swan chance that he and his toadies are taking this fucker down. His stupidity will certainly leave our role in the world’s economy and markets substantially weaker.

Gus has struggled a bit with locational awareness as of late.

 

[Gushawk]

 

[Stu Beagle]

It’s a surreal watch, it’s kind of insane how much everything about college football has changed and gotten so massive. Bowlsby mentioned that they were still working on his compensation/contract. That would never happen today.

It’s still crazy to me that in the early 2000s not all games were even televised. How did it take so long for them to realize all the money they were leaving on the table?

 

[KitKatApples]

I think it was more having somewhere to put them

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

The last Iowa game to not be televised was Minnesota game in 2001.

 

[CamelTones]

The Criminal was pretty bad when they introduced him. He looked like he didn’t want to be there.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

The last Iowa game to not be televised was Minnesota game in 2001.

even that seems unpossible

 

[The Full Monte]

It’s still crazy to me that in the early 2000s not all games were even televised. How did it take so long for them to realize all the money they were leaving on the table?

I was telling my kids this a couple weeks ago…and they were just absolutely floored

 

[douglasbader]

It’s still crazy to me that in the early 2000s not all games were even televised. How did it take so long for them to realize all the money they were leaving on the table?

Remember that the technology was different and more expensive to produce, we didn't have HD at that point, and there weren't even enough channels to make it happen.

BTN, FS1, FS2, SEC Network, ACC Network, ESPNU and more didn't even exist yet.

 

[roseboundhawk]

And yet, somehow all Iowa basketball games were televised 30 years ago whereas now 20% of them aren't.