Iowa's Superiority Complex

[Go Gophers Rah]

I'm not really part of the "Who Hates Iowa" crowd. I'd rather be for something than against something. Having said that, however, the biggest thing that bugs me about Iowa is their superiority complex, especially as it relates to our Gophers and Iowa State.

The reality is that Iowa State has owned them in the past 4 years (beating the Hawkeyes 3 out of the 4 past games) and the Gophers have split our last 4 games with them. So that's 5 Iowa losses out of the past 8 times they faced Cyclone and Gopher teams. Yet, to hear their fanbase boast about it, they dominate. Its that same sense of programatic entitlement that has led Michigan to its mediocrity - the Wolverines felt like they "deserved" to win simply because they recruited well and are a helmet school. Iowa doesn't recruit all that well and they are not a helmet school. They do not warrant the sense of superiority that their fanbase carries around on its shoulder.

Granted, they have had more success in the past couple of decades than the Gophers have. I'll give them that. In Ferent'z 16 years, they've never won an outright Big Ten championship. Guess what, Illinois did during that same period. Ferentz's teams were in two ties for B1G championships ten and twelve years ago.

I was fine until I made the mistake of peeking at their message board and reading about "at least 12,000" Iowa fans at TCF and some talking about the crowd being 50/50 and expectations of another Lois Feldman game (55-0).

I really hope the Gophers are ready for this game. If the good guys play like they did versus Michigan, Floyd can join the jug in Dinkytown.

 

[e.bigelow]

All the more reason for you to hate Iowa.

 

[Dr.Don]

I don't really totally hate Iowa. I just totally really dislike them in huge amounts.

GO GOPHERS!!!

 

[BleedGopher]

All the more reason for you to hate Iowa.

+1.

Go Gophers!!

 

[1983]

Pretty obvious they can't count. The last two games here they maybe had 4k at the most. There are several idiots who wear Gopher gear a year then switch when the hogs show up.

 

[Ole]

They're completely oblivious and insulated, they had some nice seasons in recent memory and it gives them an overzealous sense of entitlement, when in reality they are on the same rung of B1G competitiveness as most middle tier B1G teams including us.

They loathe Ferentz's style when they lose and worship him when they win.
That style is what has made them good in the past simply because it reduces risk.
Really they are a Jerry Kill style team now many years into the program, they've had their ups when they hit recruiting jackpots and their downs when injuries or depth expose the fact that they can't and never will reload like the blue blood teams they think they stack up with.

In a few years Ferentz will step down either by retirement or by being forced out after another down cycle, then we'll see how the Iowa fans handle true adversity. They could easily make a bad hire and be exactly where we were under Brewster, Michigan was under RichRod, or Nebraska was under Callahan.

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Pretty obvious they can't count. The last two games here they maybe had 4k at the most. There are several idiots who wear Gopher gear a year then switch when the hogs show up.

In addition, they're notoriously bad spellers.

 

[gopherdudepart2]

I'm not really part of the "Who Hates Iowa" crowd. I'd rather be for something than against something. Having said that, however, the biggest thing that bugs me about Iowa is their superiority complex, especially as it relates to our Gophers and Iowa State.

The reality is that Iowa State has owned them in the past 4 years (beating the Hawkeyes 3 out of the 4 past games) and the Gophers have split our last 4 games with them. So that's 5 Iowa losses out of the past 8 times they faced Cyclone and Gopher teams. Yet, to hear their fanbase boast about it, they dominate. Its that same sense of programatic entitlement that has led Michigan to its mediocrity - the Wolverines felt like they "deserved" to win simply because they recruited well and are a helmet school. Iowa doesn't recruit all that well and they are not a helmet school. They do not warrant the sense of superiority that their fanbase carries around on its shoulder.

Granted, they have had more success in the past couple of decades than the Gophers have. I'll give them that. In Ferent'z 16 years, they've never won an outright Big Ten championship. Guess what, Illinois did during that same period. Ferentz's teams were in two ties for B1G championships ten and twelve years ago.

I was fine until I made the mistake of peeking at their message board and reading about "at least 12,000" Iowa fans at TCF and some talking about the crowd being 50/50 and expectations of another Lois Feldman game (55-0).

I really hope the Gophers are ready for this game. If the good guys play like they did versus Michigan, Floyd can join the jug in Dinkytown.

12,000 at the game tomorrow, if they get that many in I would be shocked, at most they have had 4,000 to 5,000 get there hands on tickets with many of those folks living in places like Laveville, Bloomington and Eden Prairie. It's not like they have a lot of undergrads that settle here either, their kids go to Chicago whereas the Bucky kids all seem to settle here. Let them have their delusions about Kinnick north it is amusing.

 

[Iceland12]

12,000 at the game tomorrow, if they get that many in I would be shocked, at most they have had 4,000 to 5,000 get there hands on tickets with many of those folks living in places like Laveville, Bloomington and Eden Prairie. It's not like they have a lot of undergrads that settle here either, their kids go to Chicago whereas the Bucky kids all seem to settle here. Let them have their delusions about Kinnick north it is amusing.

Yep to all of that.

Both the Hawkeyes and the Badgers started bragging about getting "25,000!" in TCF before it opened. Then the students found out they couldn't scalp their tickets to non-students and it's been 6-8,000 tops every since. Though Badger fans lat year were talking 15-20K before the game.

Yeah, to bad we couldn't have bet on THAT number.
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