Making the jump in 23!!
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Seems like their defense will be good again. They got Mcnamara or however you spell it, a TE from Michigan named All, some
Receiver and a good LB from Virginia it looks like. Probably a normal Iowa team depending on schedule
Receiver and a good LB from Virginia it looks like. Probably a normal Iowa team depending on schedule
Let’s gooo!!! I think we are the most difficult team to gauge. New coach, so many new players. Will be an exciting surprise present in the fall … hopefully it’s not socks and underwear!
Sports journalism is a joke. This list is as useful as a defibrillator in a morgue. Just pulling crap out of his ***. Iowa? Seriously? CU? It is all hype and no substance. Even Nebraska is a stretch.
Coming off their regular season record of 7-5 last fall they should be able to win 9 games this upcoming season with their very soft schedule. They have Michigan and Ohio State right where they want them. Off the schedule!
As for Nebraska, it will surely be a process for new head coach Matt Rhule in rebuilding the program and getting the culture and all to where he wants it to be. Nevertheless, there’s a lot of confidence around the coaching world and around the Big Ten in Rhule, who may have the Cornhuskers back to at least being a .500 team as soon as this year after a 4-8 finish last season.
Hate to say it but Iowa did really well in the portal this year. Agree with all this, QB McNamara, TE All, and especially the LB Jackson were all great gets.
Think they’ll have another solid Iowa type year again and compete for the West. Don’t think they win it, but they’ll have a solid squad.
So, what does your list look like? I can't really argue with any of his choices. I'd have gone with Nebraska as the stand-alone for the B1G, but other than that, list seems pretty spot on to me.
My point is that teams like CU and NU have been so awful for so long I do not put any stock in predictions of our immediate turnaround based on new coaches and transfer portal guys. This is the same hype we saw around Frost almost every year as well. "This is the year Frost really puts it together and Nebraska is a team on the rise this year..." Blah, blah, blah. And Sanders is all bling and hype so far. Sure he has brought in a ton of players. But they are unproven and need time to mesh into a real team. Ditto for NU. As for Iowa... they are always good for a "solid" 8-4 or 9-3 season. It takes little predictive power to say they are going to do that again this year.
Ah, so you have more of a problem with creating such a list, not necessarily what's on it? Makes sense. I don't really blame sports reporters for putting stuff like that out there. Of course it's just one person's opinion, but generating content for a sport in the offseason when that's your job and there's really nothing to report is no easy task.
Still they had hard time running the ball, their line isn’t as good as some of their fans think they are.
How much the added additions help remains to be seen, they finally picked up a quality wide receiver supposedly from Ohio St.
Still going to come down to McNamara making better plays than the past QB with lame duck sonny boy Ferentz calling plays and he is no QB guru coach..
Reminds me of Penn State back in the day when Paterno had his stupid as crap son, Jay Paterno, as his QB coach. It was a disaster and every diehard PSU fan I knew out here hated Jay Paterno. In fact, even though they will not say it now, most PSU fans wanted Joe Paterno to retire long before the Sandusky **** hit the fan. They knew his time had passed and they wanted to make the next step into modern college football. And my gut says most Iowa fans feel the same right now about Ferentz and his son. As a Husker fan I hope Ferentz stays there until he is 90.
true - was just commenting on last years team
McNamara would have been a huge upgrade
they were 7-5 l(reg season) last year with Petras
IMO - they would have clearly beat Iowa State (10-7 loss) and Illinois (9-6 loss) and they lost to us by 7
I think they would have had a 9-3 (maybe 10-2) regular season with McNamara last year as opposed to Petras
Not sure about what they will have this year but one could argue that they have the biggest upgrade at the most important position on the field heading into 2023 in all of power 5
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Any bowl berth would qualify as a ‘big jump’ based just on the talent we’ve brought in, so far. We’re a loooong was from competing on anything resembling a ‘championship level’. Maybe a couple additional wins this year lands some 4/5* for us next cycle.
I was kind of expecting impact with snow, 17 cartwheels, and yard sale of equipment.We be like…
based on what? getting beat out by a true frosh as a senior returning starter?
never topping 8 yards/attempt?
They would have won 2 more games last year - they would have beaten Iowa state (a 10-7 loss) and Illinois (a 9-6 loss)
I am not saying he is great - but the delta between he and Petras is pretty large - they would have had at least a 9-3 season last year with just a half way competent game manager
(JJ McCarthy wasn’t a true freshman last year)
I think he is better than Petras - hard to extrapolate numbers when he (McNamara) is playing behind Michigan’s line.
Are you saying Jim Harbaugh won the big ten - and played in the CFP with a Spencer Petras equivalent at QB?
We’ll see how he looks at Iowa
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I am asking you to support your claim with something - anything - other than your feelings
I will take your attempt to turn this on me as a conditional surrender
in his full year of play:
Mcnamara had a better compl% - more yards - more TDs and better TD/Int ratio and a higher QB rating than Petras
your stance that he isn't an upgrade from Petras is nothing more than your feelings as well