our offense had started the game moving the ball until we woke up their fans and then we were just a complete mess on offense stopped by false start after false start. The was one or two early that killed a scoring drive that may have had us with a lead through the game . Their defense was also very very good. but that single score may have made the differense.
We were beat up going into the game. A TOP D with a great coach and an environment where the fans are worth 10 points .
Not criticizing anyone. Don’t use Zap the pro athlete as your defense. He knows exactly the reasons as does everyone else here. They finished 10-4 and there was a reason for that. I played against his brother …I also saw him as a high school player…he is entitled to an opinion or commentary on the game. We all are. However , his pro baseball history or high school football experience does not make him the end all.Sorry Zap … I saw your list but this could have been a much different outcome with a QB . I had great respect for his father and brothers . But people tend to use the “ well he was a pro” to often . I have known many pro athletes including 3 or 4 Yankees back in the 50’s -60’s. Several Brooklyn Dodgers as well. But unfortunately it does not always transfer to another sport.
How is that possible? How does a team one TE away from a national championship this year lack so much?
I think, lately, the impact of NIL funding may be more important than school revenue in terms of recruiting success and thus overall success. There’s a minimum level of funding needed to pay a competent coaching staff and overhead. But, so far at least, schools cannot pay the players.
Because the team was still developing last year. This is a different year.
Wait just forgot Dj McClary just flipped to Rutgers… now bust rutgersal’s cajones
Love our fans and even though we are small in number we can get extremely loud. But the Iowa fans were rabid from play 1 and they are easily worth 10 points. We will get there.
So they go from getting boat raced by a very mediocre Maryland team in the final regular season game and then magically 7 months later are one tight end Away from being able to win a national title lol
This year, we will make history, not repeat it.
Whenever you do these fits of wild optimism posts, you always talk just about our team, totally ignoring our competition. That approach to "analysis" is so ridiculously oversimplified as to be laughable.
Stupid post # 4 ? Dummy people make statements which proves they know absolutely nothing about past games …
The reason that Iowa, Wisconsin, and Penn State win games with less than stellar QB play is because they get above average to excellent OL play year in and year out.
That will be the determining factor in how good RU becomes.
Noisy “homerism” 🤭😆 your post would have been just as complete with only these two words! 😎
