**Official Western Michigan vs. Iowa Football Thread - 2:30pm - BTN**

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Should script more plays. Solved.
I actually think they should. I don’t think it can get worse. Just script an entire game, where plays flow together, and you have guaranteed callbacks to earlier action but with a new play. Brian gets confused and often just runs the same play.
 

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Right lol. The conversation between Goetz and KF isn’t going to be, “Sorry Kirk, but my hands are tied. Your son was auto fired by Gary and there’s nothing I can do about it.”

To fans a new OC would make a big difference. In reality, Goetz is going to determine that the possible gain of going from 10 wins to 11 isn’t worth the risk of immediately pissing off the most valuable asset within the department. It sucks for us, but BF goes when he decides to (or when KF goes).
Goetz can just say that Barta was a dumbfuck and rip up the whole contract and start over. The only thing that's certain is that Brian won't be fired. Barta ironically ensured that.
 

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I'll go out on a limb and say Iowa fans should care if Iowa is scoring.
 

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I think Patterson may be out beat back, at least for this line, and that the staff might agree. More carries for him gives us a boost.

30-3, Hawks.
 

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Go listen to another podcast faggot
The great Walter Isaacson is being interviewed with regard to his latest biography subject and I’m enjoying it quite a bit, thank you very much.
(Elon Musk is the subject, that guy’s dad sucks.)
 
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Iowa 26
WMU 3
Iowa with four field goals. The playbook was opened.
 

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All of the nepotism stuff was clearly a sham last time. You guys seriously think there is no difference with the new AD needing to proactively HIRE Brian as HER direct report immediately after he was terminated for performance?

I’m not saying they can’t do it. I’m saying you’re an idiot to think it doesn’t matter at all.
Mikey, my boy, there is ZERO difference. It just means his current contract is terminated and they can sign him to an adjusted deal.

You're crazy if you think that if Kirk wants him back that he isn't coming back. All provided they win 9+ games or whatever.
 

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Garta's lack of balls to do what would have been done at every other program in the country sucked, but at least this ridiculous contract is making Brian into an even bigger laughingstock and professional pariah, which isn't nothing I suppose.
 

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If Kirk is going to replace Bridawg with Budmyr (who sucked ass at Colorado State), I'd rather he just retire and roll the dice with Woods, Kliemann, or Liepold. These offenses are joy-sucking abominations, and I don't want to experience several more of them.
 

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Garta's lack of balls to do what would have been done at every other program in the country sucked, but at least this ridiculous contract is making Brian into an even bigger laughingstock and professional pariah, which isn't nothing I suppose.
do a lot of AD’s undermine their coach?
 

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do a lot of AD’s undermine their coach?
The question is irrelevant. This is a unique situation where the AD is responsible to act. If the coach has a problem with it the A.D. should get a new coach.
 

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Mikey, my boy, there is ZERO difference. It just means his current contract is terminated and they can sign him to an adjusted deal.

You're crazy if you think that if Kirk wants him back that he isn't coming back. All provided they win 9+ games or whatever.
Nobody is listening to what I'm saying. I understand this.

I'm saying people are nuts if they think this is like no big deal and everybody's going to brush it under the rug. It's going to be 10x as bad as this last summer was.
 

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How many ADs are forced to deal with a situation in which their head coach pays millions of dollars to an under-performing family member?
we have like 30 years of history to show that familial relation has nothing to do with us overpaying bad coaches
 

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Nobody is listening to what I'm saying. I understand this.

I'm saying people are nuts if they think this is like no big deal and everybody's going to brush it under the rug. It's going to be 10x as bad as this last summer was.
Who said this?
 

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Even if they get rid of BF and KF sticks around to coach another year, the offense will look the same. Do you think KF would open things up? Hire someone to run a spread offense and throw it 30 plus times a game? As long as KF is at Iowa the offense is going to look something like it has for the last 20 plus years.

KF gets to ride this out as long as he wants and I am ok with that. I wanted Iowa to move on during the Beathard mess and would be ok with KF stepping down after this year. But at this point, it is KF's decision when he goes and who is on his staff.
 

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Even if they get rid of BF and KF sticks around to coach another year, the offense will look the same. Do you think KF would open things up? Hire someone to run a spread offense and throw it 30 plus times a game? As long as KF is at Iowa the offense is going to look something like it has for the last 20 plus years.
No. Brian is bad at running the offense. That does not mean the only alternative is changing the offensive philosophy.
 

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I love iowa with all my heart, but I can't picture any scenario when Iowa beats anyone by more than twenty. Yet I can't bet against the Hawks.
 

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the three OCs have had significantly different YPP performances. I don’t expect Iowa to ever average 40 PPG but I also don’t think Kirk is directing Brian to call the worst plays in any situation.
 

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Even if they get rid of BF and KF sticks around to coach another year, the offense will look the same. Do you think KF would open things up? Hire someone to run a spread offense and throw it 30 plus times a game? As long as KF is at Iowa the offense is going to look something like it has for the last 20 plus years.

KF gets to ride this out as long as he wants and I am ok with that. I wanted Iowa to move on during the Beathard mess and would be ok with KF stepping down after this year. But at this point, it is KF's decision when he goes and who is on his staff.
While I didn't like GDGD, do you think his offense looked like Brian's?
 

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the three OCs have had significantly different YPP performances. I don’t expect Iowa to ever average 40 PPG but I also don’t think Kirk is directing Brian to call the worst plays in any situation.
He just does it because he’s a self-starter who can work independently without direct supervision
 

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JFC. WTF??

I was hacked!!

Flip phone!!
 

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Nobody is listening to what I'm saying. I understand this.

I'm saying people are nuts if they think this is like no big deal and everybody's going to brush it under the rug. It's going to be 10x as bad as this last summer was.
10x as bad in terms of noise but completely the same in terms of outcome.

If Iowa is winning a reasonable amount the AD isn’t going to fuck with KF because of what some dorks put out on Twitter.
 

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Iowa makes 4 FGs but misses 2 XPs?
I tutor second graders in math so I think I’m right. 8:30 in Fort Collins if you need some help…the kids will be nice to you.
7x2 and 3+3+3+3+3=
 

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Even if they get rid of BF and KF sticks around to coach another year, the offense will look the same. Do you think KF would open things up? Hire someone to run a spread offense and throw it 30 plus times a game? As long as KF is at Iowa the offense is going to look something like it has for the last 20 plus years.

KF gets to ride this out as long as he wants and I am ok with that. I wanted Iowa to move on during the Beathard mess and would be ok with KF stepping down after this year. But at this point, it is KF's decision when he goes and who is on his staff.
False choice. There is an option where, offensively, we remain consistent with KF’s philosophy, but do so with a reasonable level of competence. It’s not about abandoning everything to try to be June Jones.
 

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I tutor second graders in math so I think I’m right. 8:30 in Fort Collins if you need some help…the kids will be nice to you.
7x2 and 3+3+3+3+3=
If it is 8:30 in Fort Collins I'm going to need some help with time zones as well.
 
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