Consistent winning culture is present at Iowa, it's just not consistent winning close-to-every-game culture.
I stopped for gas in Iowa along I-80 somewhere between Des Moines and Omaha. The station had a lot school related stuff for sale like coffee mugs, t-shirts ...etc. They probably had a 5' wide section of shelves for Hawkeye stuff, an equally amount of shelving for Husker stuff and a much smaller section for Cyclone stuff. I was suprised since I really wasn't that close to the Nebraska border.
Colorado has the better resume. More wins, more titles, more bowl games, more All-Americans. It's not some great insult to compare Iowa's football program to them.
At least, similar yet different resumes. But I purposefully didn't look at all-time numbers much because Colorado hasn't had near the success they had in the 90's either
Colorado has the better resume. More wins, more titles, more bowl games, more All-Americans. It's not some great insult to compare Iowa's football program to them.
At least, similar yet different resumes. But I purposefully didn't look at all-time numbers much because Colorado hasn't had near the success they had in the 90's either
Iowa reminds me exactly of Colorado too, but then I started getting obsessed with football in 1992, when Colorado was a very good team. Don't assume that our most predonimant thoughts on a team come from what they did last year. Also, he's clearly talking about fan bases, not how good the teams are.
There are a lot of similarities there. They are all in on this "new rivalry", like we've been at odds for decades. This will be a relevant rivalry when they've played games where both teams are ranked, and the games themselves have implications on conference and national titles, like the rivalry with the Sooners...Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
Speak for yourself, Landlord. This "arrogance" is a refrain we hear far too often about our fans. If you don't like our fans, go find another team to root for. Stop bitching about people who (rightly) speak of Nebraska as one of the top programs in NCAA history. We have nothing to apologize for by speaking well of our team, or inferring that we have been good for a number of years.Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
I would not call sharing with 3 other teams in 1990, avoiding OSU and getting horribly embarrassed twice in 2002, and losing to the team you tied with in 2004 legitimate titles. The only one you can make a case for is 02, and even then they would have gotten destroyed if they had to play OSU.
Not at all. They would have been completely unable to move the ball, lost by a single TD and then spent the next decade talking about how the Buckeyes got 'lucky'.
