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Cool - can we get a days since each team last won a division title?    (Glad Brian is gone but please don't let Kirk leave yet...)

Stopping by to say Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  Drive safe to and from the game and may we have a clean game with no major injuries on either team!  Time for the turkey coma now.

ok - I was so confused when I heard it and just wanted to check in with people much more knowledgeable about Husker football.  It was one of those WTF things.  Thanks!

I have heard that A&M is planning on officially contacting Rhule after the games this weekend.  My source is very second hand information but it intrigued me so I figured I would come see if anyone here has heard anything since you all are pretty good at knowing information.

Brian is available...

16 hours ago, HuskerX said:

IOWA 19

HUSKERS 0

  Oh bless you for thinking we can score 19 points!

17 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Just wish we had a passing game that this would matter with.

It's the punt return game that is the biggest blow for us.

37 minutes ago, Red Five said:

 

Barta and Kirk were against it at the beginning, complaining about a short week and inconveniencing their fans who were spending time with family over the weekend.

Yeah - but it grew on him.  Remember when Nebraska got scheduled to play Wisconsin on the last weekend and Iowa was playing Minnesota (didn't happen because of the schedule change when MD/Rutgers were added) and Wisconsin said no to Black Friday.  Iowa volunteered to play Minnesota on Black Friday.

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

 

I want to continue to play it because Iowa's administration and fans don't like it.

Not sure where you got that idea.  We all love it.  The ones that don't are the hospital administration because they have to deal with football crowds on a normal work day which means messed up hospital parking and traffic flow for them.

The question will be do they want to use firing Brian as a way to get rid of Kirk because if son goes, I am sure dad goes.  I am really not sure if an interim AD will make this call and I am not sure if it is the correct call heading into the new Big 10.  Damn if I would want to be the head coach listening to the student section chanting stuff about my kid though.  That has got to be hard.

On 10/3/2023 at 2:04 PM, ZRod said:

Agreed 100%. Not sure what happened there, but dude became a d!(k.

He had me staying completely away but agree - I don't remember it being bad when he first joined.

On 10/3/2023 at 7:37 AM, Savage Husker said:

Student section should roll out a giant “1-800-BETS-OFF” poster for Iowa. Surprised that hasn’t happened yet anyway.

There is a big banner ad spot in the endzone and it keeps having an add for if you have gambling problems call this number.  We are always joking that they need to post pictures of that in the locker room.

15 hours ago, M.A. said:

 

Play solid defense, take the ball away, generate time of possession, minimize errors, win field position battles with special teams and kicking. We've got to have a reliable rushing game.  

 

Embrace the Iowa way!    Punting is winning!!!

OK - I normally come in here and think everyone is nuts for picking so high but I seem to be higher on the Huskers this year than a lot of you.  Admittedly there aren't a ton of responses yet but I have NE in the 7-8 win range this year.  I have you starting 4-0 and then winning 3 of the 5 between Michigan and Wisky before finishing 0-2. 

2 hours ago, CyHawk said:

 

I don't get it. Unless you have been under a rock, or just hate Iowa that much (or maybe both), "The Wave" has been recognized as one of the best sports traditions in the country. Yes, better than littering the countryside with a bunch of red balloons and better than the fake "sellout streak".

We will see you at Kinnick on Friday (assuming you are one of those great Husker fans). Be sure to show your hatred by sitting on your hands at the end of the first quarter while everybody else stands and waves at the kids that may be in the battle of their lives. In fact, it would be REALLY awesome if somebody could start a movement in which every single Husker fan in the stadium, along with the team, would just ignore "The Wave". Maybe that is how you could show your dominance, as for the last 20 years you have not shown it on the field. Yes, indeed, that would be great if every fan and the team would just boycott it.

See you at Kinnick on Friday!

First of all s#!t down and shut up dude.  You are being an a$$ on their board all over the place.  Come and have civil conversation or gtfo.  Second - I hate when people weaponize the wave.  It takes all of the goodness out of it.  If people/teams want to participate that is awesome but if it is mandatory to not get ripped on then it loses its meaning.  The year that the band person made the stupid a$$ comments on twitter - it was just stupid.  The teams were in a dog fight at the end of the first quarter and a coach and a few players took the extra time to talk rather than do the wave while most of the team did it.  Nothing wrong with that as they are there for a game.  I love it when everyone participates because it does mean a lot to the kids but it isn't like they are going to be worried about a few people doing their own thing so STFU about it.  

If you are coming to Iowa City for the game - a few things to note:

The westbound I-80 ramp from 218/380 North is closed so you will have to take a detour a few miles out of the way if you are parked west of the stadium and heading down Melrose to 218/380.  The walk from downtown isn't too bad other than the cold wind down the river so parking in one of the lots on the East Side so that you can get out of town via Dubuque Street might be recommended.

The teams enter the stadium on the south end.  The Iowa team will get there for the Hawk Walk past the Kinnick statue right around 1:00.  The visiting team usually gets there a little before us and get dropped off on the SE corner of the stadium in case you want to be there to cheer on the Huskers as they get off the bus.

If you like to see the band show before they head to the stadium (similar to what the CMB does outside Westbrook) - the drumline performs about 2 hours before kickoff outside the north end of the stadium and the full band with the cheerleaders and dance team does a show about 90 minutes before kickoff in the Rec building which is just NW of the stadium.

ok - so I could have just went to google to ask.  Hope he is able to come back next year.  Hate to see that happen to anyone.

Sorry - who is Marques Buford Jr.?

On 11/15/2022 at 10:09 PM, nic said:

A pig maybe…called Floyd? Honestly I would have to look it up.

Floyd of Rosedale.  It was originally an actual pig.  Back in the 30s Iowa had one of the only black players playing for a major college program and Minnesota roughed him up a little which was of course at that time overlooked by the officials.  The following year there was a lot of talk going on before the game so in order to calm things down the Iowa and Minnesota governors bet each respective state's prize pig.  Minnesota won and so the Iowa governor purchased the pig who was raised in Rosedale, IA and delivered him to the Minnesota governor (whose first name was Floyd and thus had the pig named after him).  The pig was never slaughtered for food and ended up living on a farm in southern Minnesota.  When it died it was buried a few miles north of the Iowa border in a spot about halfway between the two schools.  A statue was created in his honor and that is what is now played for.

20 hours ago, suh_fan93 said:

Got the wife and I tix about 10 rows up off the 35 yd line.  Have never been to a game at Iowa before...

You will be about 20 rows below the entry point in row 10.  On the 35 you will also be almost right on top of the players.  I think people underestimate just how close to the field the stands are at Iowa.

59 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Wonder if they go above 16 teams if there is a push for 10 conference games?

 

A big reason for division elimination was so that teams could play more often (avoiding the Nebraska/Indiana problem).  But adding more than 16 teams makes it harder to rotate through all the teams.  I guess with 18 they could do 1/8/8.

The easiest is 20 teams with 5 team pods.  Each year your pod round robins a different pod and you play every team once every 3 years.

31 minutes ago, runningblind said:

That's just silly. While you don't make large scheme changes week to week, your coaches adjust a good amount, I watch a lot of Iowa football.  You will be loading the box a lot on Friday afternoon now, less so than you would have been with Martinez, with less DB on the field especiallywith all the injuries.  Smothers will be asked to beat you, with throws over 10 yards. You'll be pushing to stop the run and sitting on short routes. I expect more blitzing than usual to rattle the young QB. 

Sorry - I should have used a sarcasm font.  It was more of the large scheme changes I was referring to.  I fully agree that we will likely be blitzing a lot more than usual, especially at the start of the game and the QB change will probably cause us to use a little more 1v1 in the secondary although I am not as confident in that prediction with several of our top pass defenders being out for the game.  Moss will certainly be on an island the entire game though.  Parker's goal will almost definitely be to rattle Logan early and often to try and control the narrative from the start.  I definitely think we go more 4-3-4 than 5-2-4 cash than we would have if Martinez were still the QB.  I am curious how we will use Belton since he usually plays cash.  Probably sub him in to replace one of our injured starters in the base formation.  There is also a decent chance that Campbell will be playing QB spy a lot more than he has yet this season although that would have been true with Martinez as well.

5 hours ago, HuskerNation1 said:

While I appreciate Martinez' toughness and the class he has shown off the field, I am excited to see another QB given a chance to start as it is time for this program to turn the page from the Martinez years. If Smothers completely struggles (or another backup), it will help Frost understand the importance of pursuing 1 or 2 transfer QBs this offseason.  I do wish Frost would have waited til Thursday to announce AM was not playing so it could have given Iowa less time to prepare for something different.  

 LOL.  We never change our game plan.  Doesn't matter who we are playing or what their strengths and weaknesses are.

Does Smothers have legs or is he more of a pocket passer?

With Martinez out - who's your backup and how is he?

Just saw the Logan Smothers thread - sorry I was blind.  Going to read it now