Making excuses? Are you really that stupid? I'll trust Kirk Ferentz and his staff's opinions on players over some beat writer for Rivals.com that looks at 30 seconds of grainy high school film and looks at who else is offering.
Yes, one game, that's what we base it on. Wouldn't happen to have anything to do with beating Penn State, stomping South Carolina, and piss pounding and overwhelming the Gophers in the last game of the Dome. No one's really arguing that Minnesota will have the talent level coming in to improve, but you're also assuming that you're used car salesman of a head coach is going to be able to convert that talent to wins on the field. You have no reason at all to be cocky, yet.
Why are you so defensive about Iowa? This thread started out about discussing Kirk Ferentz' contract, and since you have nothing of substance to attack him on, you need to resort to lame insults. Buddy, I lived in the Twin Cities for 2 years, my family is from Southern Minnesota, it's not different at all. It's not like Minnesota has such a grand reputation to the rest of the country, man. Fargo?