Iowa - What Did We Learn

Bobby_Axelrod said:
This is the never-ending problem with reading thoughts on a sports message board. People will blame players in an effort to exonerate a coach. And if they're not trying to do that, then they are foolish to blame the players as they are a direct reflection of a coache's ability to assemble a winning team.
Coaches are paid millions to find talent and then tailor the playcalling to their abilities. The HC also is responsible for in-game strategizing in response to his opponent's chess moves on the gridiron.
If a player can't hack it, and the coach won't/can't replace him, the HC is to blame for the loss. Weak people employ the excuse "they have advantages over us". If Indiana wins it all, it won't be because they have built in advantages over USC; Ohio State; Florida; Penn State; Oregon; Texas; Oklahoma; Alabama; Georgia; etc etc etc.
It will be because of superior coaching. Just like K-State got a shot in the arm with Snyder. Wisconsin got a shot in the arm with Alvarez. Penn State succeeded because of Pedoterno. We succeeded because Tom was better than his rivals. Coaching is the X factor.
"It was Mark Cuban!" Nope, you place Jirk Ferentz at Indiana with Cuban's money and he maybe wins 8 games this year. That would be his ceiling. But it's not Cignetti's ceiling, because he is a better coach.
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Well said. I am shocked at the number of fans who always find a scapegoat for poor coaching or who seem personally attacked when you criticize the coach, the one person in the program who is being paid to lead the entire program from top to bottom.
 
Mavric said:
It's not terrible. But it's a long ways from the year-three bump most were counting on. Especially when three of our losses were pretty ugly.
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The last sentence is the worst part of the season. Losing ugly and being non-competitive in some of the games wasn’t what people were expecting. Losing to Penn State the way NU lost to Michigan this year and most people would have been expecting that and while not ecstatic, been fine with it. Losing to Iowa and Minny the way the team did is kinda inexcusable.
 
if we lose the bowl game rhule will officially be tied with mike riley after 3 years going 19-19. riley was fired after 3 seasons...

i'm not saying we should fire rhule, but if we lose dylan and emmit i'm not seeing how this team gets better next season

especially with the schedule we have. i think it's very possible we are looking for a new head coach 1 year from now
 
BoSolich said:
if we lose the bowl game rhule will officially be tied with mike riley after 3 years going 19-19. riley was fired after 3 seasons...

i'm not saying we should fire rhule, but if we lose dylan and emmit i'm not seeing how this team gets better next season

especially with the schedule we have. i think it's very possible we are looking for a new head coach 1 year from now
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“Chasing 3” conference wins
 
BoSolich said:
if we lose the bowl game rhule will officially be tied with mike riley after 3 years going 19-19. riley was fired after 3 seasons...

i'm not saying we should fire rhule, but if we lose dylan and emmit i'm not seeing how this team gets better next season

especially with the schedule we have. i think it's very possible we are looking for a new head coach 1 year from now
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The Frost era proved what got Riley fired isn't anywhere close to the threshold.
 
BoSolich said:
if we lose the bowl game rhule will officially be tied with mike riley after 3 years going 19-19. riley was fired after 3 seasons...

i'm not saying we should fire rhule, but if we lose dylan and emmit i'm not seeing how this team gets better next season

especially with the schedule we have. i think it's very possible we are looking for a new head coach 1 year from now
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Unfortunately, with the new contract, Rhule will get at least two seasons in a row of losing records before getting fired, which is why he might not be as quick to fire some of his assistants as he should this offseason. He'll probably be reactive rather than proactive and wait for a disaster losing season before doing anything major.
 
The Dude said:
The Frost era proved what got Riley fired isn't anywhere close to the threshold.
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frost was a former player that had proven he could go undefeated. it would have been premature to let him go after 3 years.

rhule has 1 good season where he didn't beat a single top 25 team. there's simply nothing to suggest rhule will ever be better than a 7 win coach in the big 10.
 
The real way to measure progress is to gauge how we are doing in the conference. While some years like 2025 there may be an easier conference schedule, I wanted to look at our overall point differential from all of Rhules seasons to assess how competitive we were across the board.

2023: 139 points scored and 158 allowed for a difference of -19

2024: 184 points scored and 218 points allowed for a difference of -34

2025: 204 points scored and 252 allowed for a difference of -48

Looking at these trends we have become less competitive in conference games each year under Rhule.
 
Saw somewhere that in the last 5 games I believe there has only been 4 sacks accredited to the OL. I’ll have to check again. Interesting. Mobility, fast decision making, & getting rid of the football matter
 
Glad to see many of the posters are coming around to the fact that Rhule isn't the answer. He's a nice guy, good speaker for the university, but a terrible football coach. Dannen shares much of the blame and should be on the outside looking in, he's the second coming of Eichorst.
 
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