Two Deeps

Sabula

All-Conference
Oct 24, 2001
1,696
1,938
113
Or Lester and Kirk want to see both qbs perform in game conditions against NIU. Yawn
You can actually name a starter and still see both qbs performance in game conditions. You simply play them both. To think after Spring ball and this fall ball and you're just a couple days from game time and you can't figure out who your quarterback is? Inexcusable and incompetent. Or brilliance. I think the former.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Natchrlman2

85Bears

All-American
Aug 31, 2019
5,444
5,554
108
You can actually name a starter and still see both qbs performance in game conditions. You simply play them both. To think after Spring ball and this fall ball and you're just a couple days from game time and you can't figure out who your quarterback is? Inexcusable and incompetent. Or brilliance. I think the former.
It will be alright
 

Max Rebo

All-Conference
Dec 31, 2022
780
2,124
93
You can actually name a starter and still see both qbs performance in game conditions. You simply play them both. To think after Spring ball and this fall ball and you're just a couple days from game time and you can't figure out who your quarterback is? Inexcusable and incompetent. Or brilliance. I think the former.
Explain to me how naming a starter fundamentally changes the equation, particularly if both QBs are going to play anyway. Or at the least, explain how not doing so rises from something that might represent a fair difference of opinion to something that is “inexcusable and incompetent.”
 

Sabula

All-Conference
Oct 24, 2001
1,696
1,938
113
Explain to me how naming a starter fundamentally changes the equation, particularly if both QBs are going to play anyway. Or at the least, explain how not doing so rises from something that might represent a fair difference of opinion to something that is “inexcusable and incompetent.”
Team unity so they can rally around a starter. Projecting confidence in your coaches and system. Projecting strength, confidence, and strong decision making to opponents, fans, the team. All can suffer when you are so lilly-livered after almost a year you still can't make a decision. KF is so boring and risk averse he craps tan colored crap and comes across as a weak knee spineless old man. Jesus man, you are the head coach, make a decision after almost a year. Waiting THREE more days is going to decide it? How laughable and almost embarassing.
 

85Bears

All-American
Aug 31, 2019
5,444
5,554
108
Team unity so they can rally around a starter. Projecting confidence in your coaches and system. Projecting strength, confidence, and strong decision making to opponents, fans, the team. All can suffer when you are so lilly-livered after almost a year you still can't make a decision. KF is so boring and risk averse he craps tan colored crap and comes across as a weak knee spineless old man. Jesus man, you are the head coach, make a decision after almost a year. Waiting THREE more days is going to decide it? How laughable and almost embarassing.
Ok coach, apply for the job, you can replace Phil or Kirk in 27

i know you earned three letters in Tiddlywinks back in middle school
 
Aug 14, 2025
244
362
63
Team unity so they can rally around a starter. Projecting confidence in your coaches and system. Projecting strength, confidence, and strong decision making to opponents, fans, the team. All can suffer when you are so lilly-livered after almost a year you still can't make a decision. KF is so boring and risk averse he craps tan colored crap and comes across as a weak knee spineless old man. Jesus man, you are the head coach, make a decision after almost a year. Waiting THREE more days is going to decide it? How laughable and almost embarassing.
Meanwhile, NIU hasn't named a starter. We'll prolly smoke them on team unity alone, I reckon.
 

Sabula

All-Conference
Oct 24, 2001
1,696
1,938
113
Explain to me how naming a starter fundamentally changes the equation, particularly if both QBs are going to play anyway. Or at the least, explain how not doing so rises from something that might represent a fair difference of opinion to something that is “inexcusable and incompetent.”

Ok coach, apply for the job, you can replace Phil or Kirk in 27

i know you earned three letters in Tiddlywinks back in middle school
Hahaha. Get those witty retorts from your 4th grade daughter? Good job cletus!
 

Sabula

All-Conference
Oct 24, 2001
1,696
1,938
113
keep telling us about your experiences with team dynamics , I know hop scotch prepared you well
Never said I had experience w team dynamics cletus... just said a team with a defined leader can be a benefit to one without. Better reading comprehensive will be your friend if you just give it a chance. And keep chatting with your 4th grader for those witty comebacks... you're killing it ! Good job! 🤣
 
  • Haha
Reactions: 85Bears

85Bears

All-American
Aug 31, 2019
5,444
5,554
108
Never said I had experience w team dynamics cletus... just said a team with a defined leader can be a benefit to one without. Better reading comprehensive will be your friend if you just give it a chance. And keep chatting with your 4th grader for those witty comebacks... you're killing it ! Good job! 🤣
Stick to baking and washing dishes
 

Lionhawk85

Junior
Jun 8, 2022
144
298
63
All the discussion around QB is to be expected - but a walk on starting at DT is a potentially scary scenario. It might be fine, but it certainly raises concern around depth. Buckle up…!!
 

CP84

Senior
Mar 27, 2022
201
552
93
If we haven't named our qb #1 we don't have a qb. We don't need to play mind games with NIU
 

Jonesy5960

Heisman
Feb 1, 2023
6,119
12,664
113
All the discussion around QB is to be expected - but a walk on starting at DT is a potentially scary scenario. It might be fine, but it certainly raises concern around depth. Buckle up…!!
The last 10 years should have taught everyone that defense belongs at the low end of the worry list. It might not be elite, but I'd be really surprised it wasn't still a top 25 unit.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Kceasthawk@77

Kceasthawk@77

All-American
Feb 2, 2005
3,681
6,679
113
All the discussion around QB is to be expected - but a walk on starting at DT is a potentially scary scenario. It might be fine, but it certainly raises concern around depth. Buckle up…!!
A former walk on who played significant snaps last year, and has been a Hawk for 4-5 years now? So, have we ever seen a former walk on excell at Iowa? Maybe that fact that he actually played last year, and has 4 years in the system gives him a slight nod to line up next to Hawthorne, Add to that they've already said they plan to rotate at least 4 or more DT's early on, and it will probably be okay.
 
  • Like
Reactions: squeezebox_1

Natchrlman2

All-American
Iowa Swarm member
Jan 3, 2023
1,778
5,008
113
I'd hope so. In the meantime... Tan Flavored Kirk can try and figure out, after working on it for almost a year, who can play qb. What a joke.
Relax Breath GIF by TRT
 

Natchrlman2

All-American
Iowa Swarm member
Jan 3, 2023
1,778
5,008
113
All the discussion around QB is to be expected - but a walk on starting at DT is a potentially scary scenario. It might be fine, but it certainly raises concern around depth. Buckle up…!!
Dallas Clark was a walk on….. Sean Considine…. Joe Evans….Iowa has a rich history of walkon success
 

toddhawk

Sophomore
Sep 11, 2002
70
142
33
My guess, based on nothing but my gut, tells me that Kirk is starting Hank Brown and has known it for weeks. He knows that absolutely won't be popular so why announce it.
 

Natchrlman2

All-American
Iowa Swarm member
Jan 3, 2023
1,778
5,008
113
5 years as a walk on is different than starting as a walk on and earning a scholly shortly thereafter....
I get your point…… not sure why he was never awarded a scholarship….. could be with NIL he doesn’t need one….. but if the kid is starting as a walkon I’m going to guess he’s a gritty dude that plays his heart out
 

r_desihawk

All-Conference
Jul 3, 2025
2,813
4,030
112
to be fair we should play them both simultaneously. i saw this drill where both guys are standing next to each other and snaps alternate...hope to see the same formation on saturday.
:)
 

HawksRule73

All-Conference
Jun 26, 2025
680
1,798
93
I get your point…… not sure why he was never awarded a scholarship….. could be with NIL he doesn’t need one….. but if the kid is starting as a walkon I’m going to guess he’s a gritty dude that plays his heart out
I have no doubt he plays his heart out....he wouldn't be a Hawkeye if he didn't. My biggest concern is the fact that we have 2 walk-ons in the 2 deeps at DT. For a B1G school that has designs for the CFP, that has to be fixed going forward. I read somewhere, can't remember where, that the biggest separator between the teams that make the CFP and those that just miss out, is play on the DL. More than QB. Hopefully it's just a one-year outlier as we get younger guys ramped up and find a guy or two in the portal.

I know people have talked about Winter and asked what's the difference between him and the walk-ons at DT. My response to that is that KF is a savant on the OL, particularly center, and if he likes Winter, who am I to argue. :)
 

doughuddl2_rivals

All-Conference
Sep 5, 2009
1,148
1,710
113
They were neck and neck in practice. The scrimmage should have the deciding factor. I assume this is an old geezer rewarding seniority coupled with risk aversion. Cignetti wasn’t into risk aversion and that is why he has a title.
Did you watch football last year? Or brain dead?

KF took a big risk paying for an injured QB that needed surgery. Paid MG enough for him to pay his own surgery. Then stuck with him all season because the other two weren't ready.

Cignetti just buys one of the best QBs in the portal cuz they got the money. That's what the big boys do. It's their path. Works great when you got the money. Just ask Miami.
 
Hawkeye Report

Latest

  1. 01 Hawkeye Report PFF Deep Dive: Northern Illinois Huskies
  2. 02 Hawkeye Report PFF Deep Dive: Iowa Hawkeyes
  3. 03 Hawkeye Report Behind Enemy Lines - Northern Illinois Edition
  4. 04 Hawkeye Report Kirk Ferentz updates QB Battle
  5. 05 Hawkeye Report Iowa Quarterbacks comfortable with process