After last season, I was talking to a good friend of mine from Nebraska, and he said, quite sincerely, "Congratulations on that Ohio State win, I bet that was a blast to watch." The season was over then, and I shrugged and said, "It's Iowa. You get to watch that but you also have to sit through the Purdue game once a year and wonder why the program can't be more consistent." He said, "I dream of the day the Nebraska wins games like that. You've got it backwards, Iowa is very consistent and most programs would give anything to have that level of consistency, especially if means you get to upset a top-ranked team on national TV once a year. 49 states worth of people were Iowa fans that day and they were all jealous, thinking if Iowa can do this to Ohio State, why can't we?"
We see it. Iowa fans are tirelessly Internet searchers and desperately interested in the outside perception of our program. It's an insecurity complex born of spending 20 years as a punching bag and always feeling like nobody thinks you belong even when you're good. Thank you all for the kind words about our state and our program - and not because football, but because people.
I'm probably in the minority but I'd rather have Iowa go 7-5 every year with a little class and dignity than find myself on the wrong end of a Twitterclown slapfest over the scandals that current plague about half of the conference. Even Wisconsin, the only other program in the conference threatening Iowa's 8 year streak of winning the Most Boring Football Program On and Off the Field Trophy (which will be renamed the Ferentz Trophy after he retires in 2034), is having some issues now.
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After last season, I was talking to a good friend of mine from Nebraska, and he said, quite sincerely, "Congratulations on that Ohio State win, I bet that was a blast to watch." The season was over then, and I shrugged and said, "It's Iowa. You get to watch that but you also have to sit through the Purdue game once a year and wonder why the program can't be more consistent." He said, "I dream of the day the Nebraska wins games like that. You've got it backwards, Iowa is very consistent and most programs would give anything to have that level of consistency, especially if means you get to upset a top-ranked team on national TV once a year. 49 states worth of people were Iowa fans that day and they were all jealous, thinking if Iowa can do this to Ohio State, why can't we?"
We see it. Iowa fans are tirelessly Internet searchers and desperately interested in the outside perception of our program. It's an insecurity complex born of spending 20 years as a punching bag and always feeling like nobody thinks you belong even when you're good. Thank you all for the kind words about our state and our program - and not because football, but because people.
I'm probably in the minority but I'd rather have Iowa go 7-5 every year with a little class and dignity than find myself on the wrong end of a Twitterclown slapfest over the scandals that current plague about half of the conference. Even Wisconsin, the only other program in the conference threatening Iowa's 8 year streak of winning the Most Boring Football Program On and Off the Field Trophy (which will be renamed the Ferentz Trophy after he retires in 2034), is having some issues now.