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Previous Indiana coach was a bit less successful than Fleck, kind of easy to switch it up when you aren’t risking getting worse.

Iowa is 3hr drive to Chicago, 4hr drive to STL

8-4 with a decent bowl game (Music City, for example) is "average"? You need to seriously recalibrate your expectations, particularly...

Loved this post ... except the "ho hum" crap. Going 8-4 is not a "ho hum" season. You aren't realistic if you really expect a 10, even...

They produce more and higher rated fbs players most years.

A hell of a lot more tha mediocre Minnesota HS football. Even Wisconsin has better high school football.

I think it’s two things. 1. Like PJ says he isn’t for everyone, including coaches. 2. He doesn’t have the money to hire elite...

Not a ton more than Minnesota but again, has Iowa’s success been that much different or substantially better than Minnesota’s during the...

Exactly. Minnesota can be a 7-8 win team that once a decade makes a 16 team play-off. That's basically what PJ has done. If there had...

At some point you have to face reality. Little to no in-state talent, poor fan support and no big money donors. You have to fix those...

So hire a random MAC coach who had less success there than PJ Fleck did? That's the definition of firing someone just to fire them. The...

For whatever reason, there is way more football talent in Iowa than Mn.

I mean he says the same crap every coach says. I dunno why people get worked up about that.

Who are the player leaders on this team? Doesn’t seem like we have those clear leaders like in past years.

I think he did get quite close several times actually.