Bump - can’t believe I can’t find a more recent dedicated Iowa thread.
Anyway, sounds like Iowa’s splash hire to replace Bobby Telford is …. Jacob Warner
The cesspool is already weighing in:
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Well at least the scoring and scrambling will improve
Warner is a 4 AA and Runner-up. Coach Cody is a 2 AA and runner-up.
Is Cael trying to make a splash hire and re-hire Cody to rally the fans?
Sorry, but some of you are missing @mcpat’s point. OSU and Iowa found themselves distantly behind PSU in 2024. Each was/is reacting to that. OSU hired DT and his staff in 2024, and thus far Iowa’s only staff move has been to swap Warner for Telford. Which seems notably better? That’s it.
You would need to compare Nick Lee to Warner to have a fair comparison. Cody has head coaching experience and a wealth of worldly knowledge simply by being older and having had tons of opportunity including being an assistant on multiple record setting teams. PSU is not trying to make a splash or convince recruits that they can get better by being there. JW may end up being a great coach but by the time he can prove that Brands will be gurgling his applesauce at the shady oaks retirement home.
Warner is a 5x AA. Cody Sanderson was a 2x runnerup.
Exactly.
Lee and Warner are an interesting comparison.
This. Warner may be a perfectly cromulent coach, but the larger signal sent is "institutionally, we are not changing".
Shakespeare overused the word cromulent in Macbeth now it's creeping into an Iowa thread.
THIS. This is how the Philadelphia Flyers went downhill. All hires were in-house/inner circle for too many years. Finally digging out.
Yep. You know, it's sort of funny. As a native Pennsylvanian, I have frequently noted to others that Pennsylvanians tend to exhibit a sort of unique and genetic form of hyperparochialism (eg, like the time my mentor returned to York after graduating college, told his neighbors that he was going to Penn Law School, and was greeted with 'couldn't get into Dickinson?', or the time my work colleagues in Pittsburgh really and truly thought Flight 93 was targeting the Mellon Bank tower.)
I despise both the penguins and the flyers and take solace in knowing the flyers suck and the penguins are going to try the same thing, without success, they have for damn near a decade at this point. Should've cut bait and moved on from some of those guys 3 + years ago. Now, they'll be substantially less able to rebuild and they're not winning jack so good. Misery loves company and James fuckign dolan will make sure I'm miserable. Forever, it seems. Well. Since I was 2 years old that is.
Can and want to aren’t synonymous!
I blame this on Eric lindros. In my early childhood I was a massive lindros and John Leclair fan. Leclair got old and lindros went to the rangers and I became a fan. My 11th birthday I watched lindros and the rangers molly-whopp the penguins in melon arena and was hooked on hockey ever since...
That gave me a flashback to something I hadn't thought about in decades. Through 1977, the U.S. Tennis Open was played in Forest Hills, Queens. I knew someone who was adamant it was played in Forest Hills, the Pittsburgh suburb. They were shocked when they were finally convinced the tournament was played in a different Forest Hills, and that another Forest Hills even existed.
I could have sworn I saw the Westinghouse Bridge in the background and the ball boys saying screw it, its gone, new can.
One more. Once I had a trip into the burgh. Hopped into an airport cab and had a nice chat with a very affable driver. Got to the topic of how we liked to read, and it went something like this:
Pens are an interesting animal this year. All offense down the stretch. Maybe the game has changed but that usually doesn’t get you very far in late spring.
From the other end of the state I had graduate classes with a woman from the Philly area who swore Arlen Spector was the Philadelphia senator and John Heinz represented the western part of the state. To make it even better, when I ask where the boundary was she insisted the western part of the state was "you know, over there by Allentown and Harrisburg to Pittsburgh.
I thought “cromulent” was what I pick out of my bellybutton
Wish they’d call up Murashov permanently. Maybe I do not appreciate the jump up, but I think he would be a better option than Silovs behind Skinner at this point.
Adding a cromulent coach such as Jacob Warner will surely serve to embiggen the Iowa program.
