Post Game Thread: Hawkeyes Humiliate Gophers

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MZBKA1 said:
Ask yourself: If you were a highly-touted football prospect, would YOU want to play for a coach who is 1-7 against one of his team's biggest rivals? Would YOU want to play for coach who can't get his team ready to play trophy games? Would YOU want to play for a coach who loses to Bowling Green?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, then you're just fooling yourself.
If you answered NO to these questions and still think Fleck should be coaching here, I envy your ability to be satisfied with mediocrity.
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Gophers were sub-'mediocre prior to Fleck.
 




I hate losing to the Pigs. I really F’ing hate it. I watched the whole thing. I need therapy. Cant understand how you can’t be fired up as a team for that game. Really have to do better these last four games.
 


Iowa may make the playoffs by the end of the season if they win out.

Host #6 Oregon
At #23 USC
Host MSU
at Nebraska

Gonna need help as they still aren’t ranked.
 



bonin21 said:
Mediocrity reigns supreme in Gopher athletics
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I was there. Total embarrassment in a rivalry game. A no show from kickoff. Coaches and team should be ashamed of themselves. Truly pathetic. PJ will say all the right things, but will anything change? The team has played 1 full game against Nebraska and 2 half games against Rutgers and Purdue. Buffalo and NW State don’t count. Tough to get excited about a team where you have no idea who will show up.
 



Willwin40 said:
I didn’t see Smith at wr today. Was he ever in the game? It looked like Lanier took his place. I didn’t hear anything about an injury.
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Both Smith and Loya were in sweats on the sidelines. Not sure why either did not play. I was there and puzzled by the lack of WR depth.
 


Gophergrandpa said:
I don't think Iowa is necessarily more physically dominant than Minnesota. Faster, yes--but not more physically dominant. Game conditions matter. Iowa came out supremely confident, knowing they were going to beat the tar out of their little brother. The Gophers came out feeling like the little brother, feeling the weight of the Ferentz/Fleck history and perhaps knowing that their O game plan would do little to stress or confuse the Iowa D.

When a Gopher team--with its lack of explosive play capability, or even mndset--is down 17-0 two minutes into the second quarter, and it is clear that your simplistic O prep and plans are hopelessly transparent and anticipated at every step by a focused, disciplined Iowa defense, and you know that your afterthought STs are operating at a huge deficit to Iowa's ST commandos, you know the game is both lost and hopelessly out of hand. You should play you hearts out nonetheless, but you know the cause is hopeless and your generals have failed to prepare you adequately for the battle. You lose heart. Call it quitting if you want. I would call it battle shock. You could see it the players body posture and eyes.

I think the Gophers will regroup and win a few more games--games in which PJ doesn't fear the opposing coach, and the opposing coach and players can't feed off that fear. Maybe fear is the wrong word; the issue is more nuanced. But Ferentz has a profound psychological advantage over PJ, and both teams feel it ... more and more each year. It feeds Iowa's strength and saps the Gopher's.

On to the MSU game!
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It's something I've noticed over the years and I will admit it doesn't necessarily translate to the bottom line in terms of performance, but Iowa is just so much more "sudden" to the ball than the Gophers under Fleck. We were a little more aggressive under Kill, but it didn't make a lot of difference on the scoreboard or in the defensive rankings. It's just been night-and-day this season. We push Nebraska around on both sides of the ball and it's a total 180 against Iowa.

Totally agree on the offensive side of things. To optimize Lindsey's and mitigate his inexperience, you have to have a better set of WRs than we currently have (and the RBs have to catch the ball).

I think we end up 7-5 (maybe 8-4) and go bowling again.
 




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