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"Iowa could be this years Alabama". Just heard him on the radio. Smart guy!

Phil Steele?

Never heard of him.

And given that comment...now I know why.

Well if you don't know who Phil Steele is then you either don't follow CFB or you're fucking dumb. So which one is it?

Getting shithammered by a non BCS school in a bowl game?

Yeah, I could see that.

He said Iowa could blow through a weak ass schedule only to get their ass handed to them from a non-BCS conference school in their bowl game? You should be excited.

I follow college football, but Phil Steele ain't college football.

So I visit this guy's site...awesome, I can register a vote in a poll asking how many games will Middle Tennesse and Western Kentucky win. Even better, I can do the same for Troy and Florida International and Montana State, too.

Nope, still never heard of him.

And, again, if he's calling out Iowa as the next Bama, well, I'm better off not listening to him.

Haha! JMak seems eerily familiar to Vag with his clueless comments- hmmm.....wonder why that is. Actually, Phil Steele is by FAR the best prognosticator. When someone like Athlon or ESPN says something positive or negative about my team I don't take it seriously. Especially with ESPN. But Steele has proven he knows his shit and is the best of the best. So when I heard him say that I imediately pulled over to the side of the road and booked my plane ticket to Pasadena. And yes, I'd be perfectly happy with our season ending in a beatdown in a BCS Bowl like Bama. It sure beats the fuck out of going to Shrevport or some other shit bowl game even if you win.

So, Steele knows his shit and declares Iowa to be this year's Alabama and that means what? You're so very impressed by it...so wtf does that mean?

It means that Iowa might be a hollow #1 team getting by on beating chump opponents to get invited to a BCS game they most certainly should not be at.

Props, I guess.

But being a Ferentz slappy it's not surprising that you'd hang your team's hat on "even if we got beaten down, we still got to the BCS".

"even if we got beaten down, we still got to the BCS".

Uhhh...IN!

-MSU fan

But being a Ferentz slappy it's not surprising that you'd hang your team's hat on "even if we got beaten down, we still got to the BCS".

Haha........Whatever you say Van. I'm far from a Ferentz "slappy". I'm actually very critical of Kirk on many occasions. It's funny how people here see me as a Ferentz apologist yet my Iowa buddies see me as a Ferentz hater. I laugh at both. I am neither. I like Kirk, he's a good coach. But he has some flaws that I feel have cost us at times. On the other hand, I think there have been times if Kirk wasn't our coach we wouldn't have been as good as we were. One thing is certain, I respect the shit out of the guy. However, I've been openly critical of him on this board MANY times.

It means that Iowa might be a hollow #1 team getting by on beating chump opponents to get invited to a BCS game they most certainly should not be at.

I got news for you........there's 4 teams in the BCS every year that meet this exact criteria. So if Iowa does it, what's the big deal?

it's not surprising that you'd hang your team's hat on "even if we got beaten down, we still got to the BCS".

My point must have gone right on past you. I was saying I'd rather get thumped in a BCS bowl then winning a shit bowl. Of course I'd like to win a BCS Bowl.........who wouldn't? But winning any bowl game (other than the national title) isn't really that big of a deal. It doesn't help you win your conference or a national title, so until we get a playoff system the postseason is more about having a good time in a nice destination than winning a football game. I've been to 5 or 6 bowl games and I care more about the atmosphere at the game and the week leading up to the game in the city the game is located than I do about seeing Iowa win.

TheJON wrote:Haha........Whatever you say Van. I'm far from a Ferentz "slappy". I'm actually very critical of Kirk on many occasions. It's funny how people here see me as a Ferentz apologist yet my Iowa buddies see me as a Ferentz hater. I laugh at both. I am neither. I like Kirk, he's a good coach. But he has some flaws that I feel have cost us at times. On the other hand, I think there have been times if Kirk wasn't our coach we wouldn't have been as good as we were. One thing is certain, I respect the shit out of the guy. However, I've been openly critical of him on this board MANY times.

My bad...I should have said "Iowa slappy".

I got news for you........there's 4 teams in the BCS every year that meet this exact criteria. So if Iowa does it, what's the big deal?

Difference is that their fans ain't calling that success.

My point must have gone right on past you. I was saying I'd rather get thumped in a BCS bowl then winning a shit bowl.

I and everyone else got that, dipshit. The overlooked issue, of course, is that to be like Bama your boys have to run through a shit schedule just to get thumped by a marginal BCS team. You're homering it up, I see that, but deal with reality.

Difference is that their fans ain't calling that success.

Going to the BCS isn't success????????????????? Okay, so what is "success" then? 119 teams, 1 team wins a national title. Only 1 team had a successful year? If that's the case, then every program is HORRIBLE because the record for national title's is somewhere around 10........in 100 or so years of playing CFB. So that means even the most successful program wins a title 1 in 10 years and most either never win one or win one every 20 years or so.

Okay, I see where you're going.........

Every team sucks, every program sucks.

TheJON wrote:Going to the BCS isn't success?????????????????

If success is defined as "blow(ing) through a weak ass schedule" ...

Okay, so what is "success" then? 119 teams, 1 team wins a national title. Only 1 team had a successful year? If that's the case, then every program is HORRIBLE because the record for national title's is somewhere around 10........in 100 or so years of playing CFB. So that means even the most successful program wins a title 1 in 10 years and most either never win one or win one every 20 years or so.

You like arguing with yourself, eh?

Okay, I see where you're going.........

Every team sucks, every program sucks.

Do you make love to your strawman, too?

If success is defined as "blow(ing) through a weak ass schedule" ...

Everyone keeps saying Iowa has some sort of brutal schedule. I disagree. But what is it.........Iowa's got a tough schedule or they have a weak ass schedule? What I do know is this.......the so-called experts are predicting Iowa 4th or 5th in the Big-10 because of our alleged brutal schedule. If Iowa somehow manages to make their way to the top of the conference, these same dolts will be crying about how easy of a schedule we played. I see this kinda shit all the time.

TheJON wrote:Everyone keeps saying Iowa has some sort of brutal schedule.

Who the hell is "everybody"? I haven't heard that. And that's precisely because they don't have a brutal schedule.

The rest...I care about it as much as I care about Phil Steele...you

TheJON wrote:"Iowa could be this years Alabama". Just heard him on the radio. Smart guy!

You mean Iowa players are going to sell thier text books to other students?

2009 Iowa schedule

Northern Iowa: Pathetic cupcake. A directional Iowa school?? It doesn't get much more pathetic than this. They're not even D1. This game alone should automatically eliminate Iowa from BCS bowl consideration; or, as stated before, it should at least not count on Iowa's W-L record. Exhibition games played against teams from the minor leagues should not count on a team's record. This goes for all teams, not just Iowa. W

@ Iowa State: Cupcake number two, OOC. W

Arizona: Were this one in the desert, it'd be something. I'm assuming this one's a home and home series, so props to Iowa for at least scheduling a home and home with a BCS conference school besides perennial doormat Iowa St. Of course they scheduled one of the Pac 10's weaker programs, but hey, at least it's not another Northern Iowa. W

@ Penn State: What happened down through the years in this series doesn't matter now. PSU lost last year, and they're not losing the return match-up in front of a white out. L

Arkansas State: Jesus fucking christ. This is sickening. Northern Iowa, Iowa St and Arkansas St?? If anybody ever called Iowa's schedule "brutal" they certainly didn't mean it the way simply stupid Jon inferred it. They meant it's brutal, sure, as in "totally sucks." W

Michigan: Iowa should win this one. Michigan is still at least a year or two away. W

@ Wisconsin: Toss up. Wisconsin has steadily gone into the tank under Bielema, to the point that now they're simply awful, but it is a roadie in conference, which tends to even things up quite a bit. I'll call this... W

@ Michigan State: If Michigan St wants to be taken seriously at all, they have to win this game. They will. L

Indiana: Conference cupcake, at home. W

Northwestern: If this were in Evanston, maybe, but not in Iowa City. W

@ Ohio State: L

Minnesota: Another conference cupcake, at home. W

9-3, without a single impressive win. They then get a second tier New Year's day bowl game, in an era where only one New Years day bowl game means anything, and Iowa ain't about to ever play in that one, not under Kirk Ferentz. Maybe they win some other nothing bowl game, though.

So, 9-4, or 10-3, depending on how they do in their bowl game with some SEC flunkey.

Just win the games they should, with that schedule, and they've had a "great year." Truly, the stuff of legends.

Van wrote: So, 9-4, or 10-3, depending on how they do in their bowl game with some SEC flunkey.

how does the Big 10 bowl sequence work? Rose/BCS, CapOne, Outback, Alamo?

i could see an 8-4 Iowa team playing Texas Tech or one of the North teams that's on the downside of the inevitable tiebreaker in that division. KU is the best team (probably) but have the most difficult schedule vs. the South or maybe NU (new QB vs. Reesing at KU).....but CU gets MU, KU, and NU in Boulder so the schedule favors the Buffs while hopes are high around here...not many other people are seeing the same thing. but, i think 8 wins gets CU in about Alamo territory.

sorry, OT a bit.

Dunno. Terry always knows all those bowl stips. I just know it seems the Big 10 is always playing the SEC in those mid-level southern locale bowls.

Van wrote:Dunno. Terry always knows all those bowl stips. I just know it seems the Big 10 is always playing the SEC in those mid-level southern locale bowls.

right, Alamo is another "4th/5th bowl" for the Big 10 (vs. Big XII) as well....depending on the Gator business for the XII which i learn and forget every year and BCS slots. my CU board troll has CU vs. Sparty in the Alamo in the pre-season predict pool. though, the "real me" thinks CU is more like an Indy/Insight/Sun Bowl type team

JMak wrote:I follow college football, but Phil Steele ain't college football.

So I visit this guy's site...awesome, I can register a vote in a poll asking how many games will Middle Tennesse and Western Kentucky win. Even better, I can do the same for Troy and Florida International and Montana State, too.

Nope, still never heard of him.

And, again, if he's calling out Iowa as the next Bama, well, I'm better off not listening to him.

I hate to agree with Jonsense but truthfully if you don't know who Phil Steele is then you're ignorant to college football analysts. Dude is $$$ on his predictions most of the time. Man has been the most accurate when predicting the outcomes of coolege football seasons weeks in advance for years. Blows those other shit mags such as Lindy's and Athlon out of the water.

King Crimson wrote:

Van wrote: So, 9-4, or 10-3, depending on how they do in their bowl game with some SEC flunkey.

how does the Big 10 bowl sequence work? Rose/BCS, CapOne, Outback, Alamo?

i could see an 8-4 Iowa team playing Texas Tech or one of the North teams that's on the downside of the inevitable tiebreaker in that division. KU is the best team (probably) but have the most difficult schedule vs. the South or maybe NU (new QB vs. Reesing at KU).....but CU gets MU, KU, and NU in Boulder so the schedule favors the Buffs while hopes are high around here...not many other people are seeing the same thing. but, i think 8 wins gets CU in about Alamo territory.

sorry, OT a bit.

C and P from Big Ten Conference Wiki

Since 1946, the Big Ten champion has had a tie-in with the Rose Bowl game, now a BCS bowl. The Big Ten also has tie-ins with six non-BCS bowls:

Capital One Bowl: Orlando, Florida (Big Ten #2 pick against SEC #2 pick)
Outback Bowl: Tampa, Florida (Big Ten #3 pick against SEC #3/4 pick)
Alamo Bowl: San Antonio, Texas (Big Ten #4/5 pick against Big 12 #4/5 pick)
Champs Sports Bowl: Orlando, Florida (Big Ten #4/5 pick against ACC #4 pick)
The Alamo Bowl has the 4th pick in 2007 and 2008, while the Champs Sports Bowl has the 4th pick in 2009.
Insight Bowl: Tempe, Arizona (Big Ten #6 pick against Big 12 #6 pick)
Motor City Bowl: Detroit, Michigan (Big Ten #7 pick against MAC #1)

Can we get a petition going that .m2/Van has a limit on number of stupid posts he can make in a week or he's given a week suspension???

Who the hell is "everybody"? I haven't heard that. And that's precisely because they don't have a brutal schedule.

Posters on this board. Definitely not me. The magazines have too.

As far as Big Ten schedules go, yeah, they do. How many other teams play road games at Penn St, Ohio St, Michigan St, and Wisconsin. I don't care about some of their recent successes against those teams, those games are still much harder than playing Indiana and Minnesota on the road.

This piece, from Adam Rittenberg's Big 10 blog, sort of puts it in better perspective:

No team in the Big Ten and few BCS teams nationally has a tougher conference road schedule than the Hawkeyes, who were ranked 21st in the preseason Coaches' Poll.

Sept. 26: at Penn State
Oct. 17: at Wisconsin
Oct. 24: at Michigan State
Nov. 14: at Ohio State

Those four teams had a combined record of 37-15 last year and went 24-4 on their home fields. When a trip to Camp Randall Stadium looks like the easy game, you know it's a rough road.

Plus, two of those games are night games (PSU and MSU).

Yeah, but no other team (okay, I guess there would be four other teams) are being led into those games by one of the "Top 5 coaches."

Should be a piece of cake for Iowa!

Good point. Plus, Iowa travels so well they'll probably be de-facto home games.

TheJON wrote:Can we get a petition going that .m2/Van has a limit on number of stupid posts he can make in a week or he's given a week suspension???

You shouldn't include Van in with Mtool. Van is a solid poster. It's quite amusing watching him flog Mtool on a daily basis.

Mucho, he doesn't include me with m2. Jon's latest shiny object diversion is he likes to think m2 and I are the same poster, though I'm not quite sure who's supposed to be whose troll there.

Even M Club, who actually has two brain cells to rub together, has of late joined in on their fun little game.

Mgo, as far as I'm concerned your game with Iowa is my most looked forward to game this year in the Big 10. You'd better fucking win that one.

If Iowa's conference road schedule is "tough', then what does that make Iowa's OOC schedule? Date-rape, ulcerative colitis, a joke?

stuckinia wrote:If Iowa's conference road schedule is "tough', then what does that make Iowa's OOC schedule? Date-rape, ulcerative colitis, a joke?

You see, I completely agree with that 100%.

That said, I am actually worried shitless about the Arizona game. They're a quality team and right between the ISU and Penn State road games. At the risk of baiting m2 into a Pac-10 homer response......I think Arizona just might come into Kinnick and beat Iowa. On top of it being a trap game, I can guarantee you Stoops has this one circled much like Dirk Koetter did in 2004. Hell, ASU openly admitted to spending a lot of time in the offseason preparing for Iowa and I'm sure Arizona will do the same.

That Arizona game is a lot tougher than some of our conference road games and ANY of our other home games. Would not be surprised to see an ambush.

TheJON wrote:

That said, I am actually worried shitless about the Arizona game. They're a quality team and right between the ISU and Penn State road games. I think Arizona just might come into Kinnick and beat Iowa.

That Arizona game is a lot tougher than some of our conference road games and ANY of our other home games. Would not be surprised to see an ambush.

Arizona is the 5th best team at best in the PAC 10.

What's that tell you about Iowa and the 10 ???

Wow, I'm real shocked the tard showed up to comment after I said that. I'd explain it to him, but I just can't bring myself to respond to the dolt with an actual football take.

You're reading too much into it, JON. You guys should spank Arizona.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:You're reading too much into it, JON. You guys should spank Arizona.

I thought that way in 2004 when we had ASU sanwhiched in between ISU and Michigan. They beat us by about 30.

That was also on the road, and ASU was a 9 win team that year. Apples to anvils.

TheJON wrote:I'd explain it to him, but

... you're too stupid. We know.

That's why EVERYONE on this board has you on ignore other than me... and a couple of other posters/losers that want kids.

I keep you around because my ass needs a beanbag when I approach one of yours ... or a majority of the posts in this shithole.

When you get done picking enough kernels for rent today and have a bit extra as to ask the farmer/wizard... if he'd be so kind as to issue you a brain. I just got off the phone with the "Wizard" and its not looking good for you. He says he can't find one in your size.

I mentioned to the "Wizard... that you were from Iowa and he said, he'd have to get back to me later when he checked his special room.

All in all, I've excepted the fact that you'll never find a brain and have gone out of my way to show yet another report that has Arizona at no better than 5th in the mighty PAC 10.... yet Iowa's toughest game of the year.


Opps.... they're picked 8th out 10 in this poll of media that follows PAC 10 football.


Iowa's Nightmare






m2 is the truth

All in all, I've excepted the fact that you'll never find a brain

Priceless.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

All in all, I've excepted the fact that you'll never find a brain

Priceless.

Yet another "exceptional" football take from a Midwesterner.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

All in all, I've excepted the fact that you'll never find a brain

Priceless.

I'd bet the Kal education the retard never got that he doesn't even know what the fuck he did wrong!