College football week 14 thread: ATLiens

Just to clear things up - if Farentz Jr. "was" the OC for the entire season - would he have saved his job? Getting into the Big 10 championship game has to count for something right?

 

This is no chance whatsoever that you have watched an Iowa football game this year, and wrote that post.

 

The fact that they won 10 games and made the Big Ten championship game just means the DC and Special Teams Coach each need to have their salary doubled and signed to a lifetime contract. That's how good those units have been.

And I'm still not sure how Daddy Ferentz kept that team together, given the burden the offense put on the rest of the team. Seems ripe for internal strife.

They 100 percent have had success this season in spite of the OC.

 

Why would I put myself through that?

 

The Iowa team total for Saturday is set at 6.5 points. They are expected to score less than one TD for the game. Nepo Ferentz should be fired twice for being the architect of this dumpster fire of an offense.

 

They should just go ahead and run the wishbone. Could it possibly be any worse?

 

dan-

I used to know this guy who'd write about crappy games for fun. Pick the worst game on the slate, watch it and write a thousand or so words on it. Got good clickage, too.

 

Matt Rhule says he doesn’t have $2 million for a quarterback.

https://www.thescore.com/ncaaf/news/2779878

 

It makes me think of the cancer kids and "the wave" they do at Iowa games, haven't those kids suffered enough?

 

Just curious, do you like the way FCS, Divisions II and III do it?
Even the late great John Gagliardi once told me there are probably too many teams and games in those playoffs.

 

The biggest reason they wanted a CFP was that the ratings weren't growing. When you NY and LA don't care about a sports event, ya got problems. Give people a reason to care ("Well, we lost to this team - if they beat Team B by more points, that's good for my self-esteem")

Was thining about the Pac-12 implosion - astounding to me that people paid well and known for their intelligence (the college presidents) couldn't grasp that the low viewership of Pac-12 games across the board would impact a potential media rights deal (particularly after losing USC and UCLA). Fans in the SEC and Big 10 footprint will watch ANY and EVERY conference game, if only to wish ill will on a particularly hated rival OR to "scout" an upcoming opponent.
The Pac-12 fans are likely wondering if they can score some tickets to the local NFL game that week.

 

Ratings are never going to be the boon they imagined because this a sport mostly followed in flyover country. Add in the fact that the national championship is played on a Monday night and ends well after the eastern time zone had gone to bed. The CFP has yet to even approach Wildcard Weekend from a ratings standpoint and probably never will.