In all honesty, (and I promise not to be an over emotional fan) I am amazed Iowa is not last in all passing categories. I was shocked to see Iowa is 7th in the B1G for pass yds per game. I wonder how 192 pass yds per game stacks up against the other BCS conferences?

I don’t care how frustrated fans get, what Texas fans did with that banner is absolutely classless. If you don’t like what’s going on just don’t go to the game. In the end what eventually forces change is empty seats. But let’s see how the last (4) games play out. The offense showed a sliver of life in the NW game. If our coaches are better than our competition we should at least see improvement. If we don’t see improved execution then I think it speaks for itself.

sooner or later you have to go down field on a pass play (hopefully this Saturday) and as far a coach Davis he has only been here 8 games and
with Kirk’s loyalty to his coaches my bet is Davis will be here next year.
I like KF even though I’ve been negative to him on some of my comments,
I remember Lauteburg (sp) and Nagal, and Cummings so for the younger fans you will not get much better than KF. Yes I’m totally bummed this year or course every year I want the Old Gold and Black to win 10 games or more, yea undefeated would be awesome, but I don’t expect that. I would like to see top shelf of the B1G TEN and BCS bowl game and heres the thing it ain’t happening this year so why not play for the future and lets see another QB, were using other 1st year players. I could go on but you all get it.
Bleeding Old Gold and Black! GO HAWKS!!!!

Let me see now, Iowa can’t expect much, so it pays a middling coach $4 million to get it. Meanwhile, the mighty powers of Texas Tech, Boise State, Rutgers, Louisville, Oregon State, Mississippi State, Louisiana Tech, Arizona, Ohio, Toledo, Kent State, and Tulsa are in the top 25 or 30 right now. I get it. Indeed, how could poor little old Iowa ever compete with the likes of Kansas State, which is in line to play for the national championship this year. Why, that beautiful stadium in the heart of Manhattan (Kansas, that is) and its teeming azure beaches filled with bikini-clad co-eds and college football stars waiting around to be plucked like so many ears of corn? And that sexy head coach, Bill Snyder, who escaped the prison of Iowa City and has shown, twice, that once he had all the advantages K-State could offer, including its long and storied football tradition, there was no stopping him — even though he is about 112 years old now.

So sure. You’re right. No way Iowa can match the likes of K-State, Louisville, Mississippi State, Ohio, Toledo, Kent State or Tulsa. Hawkeye fans must be delusional to think such thoughts.

I can’t help but also point out that Hayden Fry — sorry if you have an aversion to facts — took over an Iowa program that hadn’t even had a winning season in 17 consecutive years. And in his first season, using a senior QB who had been a 5th strong D-back a few months earlier, Fry’s offense ran like a well oiled machine from Day 1. Iowa scored 28 points in the first half of the first game under Fry, against one of the better Indiana teams of the last 30 years. I could go on, but the point is, there is NO excuse for this pathetic Iowa offense. Period.

And if you don’t care for the Fry example, then how about Penn State? Look what that staff has done under horrible circumstances. How long does it take for a veteran 5th year senior QB to learn how to throw the ball down the field? The whole mess stinks in Iowa City, and you can dice it and slice it anyway you want, and it still stinks. Greg Davis is just another Ferentz puppet, only worse. It will take a miracle for this team to do better than 4-8, and after the smack down that’s coming Saturday from the mighty ones at IU, well, it’s never too early to start the list of excuses.

This season’s offensive struggles lie at the feet of JVB and KF much more than Greg Davis. JVB, like most multi-year QB starters under KF, is so petrified of making a mistake that he’s unable to make a winning play. Instead, he locks onto the quickest, closest route and throws it into the dirt, stands and occasionally to the receiver. Quality D-1 quarterbacks don’t do that.

Let’s just remember: it doesn’t matter who the OC is at Iowa, we’re likely to be in the bottom tier of the league offensively. Unfortunately, we’ve haven’t had the dominant defense to not only even out but surpass the mediocre to adequate offensive “execution” too many times since 2004. When your defense nearly ALWAYS needs to score points or create multiple short fields each game, you’re not going to win too many games. But hey, we’re just Iowa and we can’t be expected to stay up with the USC’s, Michigans, Alabamas and Kansas States EVERY year……

A Hayden Fry reference, but let’s be blunt if we’re talking Fry. Love the guy, but the early offensive coordinator for Fry was a mild mannered coach call Bill Schneider. He had Iowa’s offense running on all cylinders. Doing a decent job at K-State even now. After he left Iowa’s offense got just as clunky as Kirk’s, it became dependent on the QB running the offense and became a much more balanced running and passing game. Quick name a great QB that played for Fry not named Long. Now Kirk-Tate, Stanzi, Banks, come right to mind. Fry had some decent ones, Rogers, Sherman, Hartlieb, Vlasic. My conclusion is that the head coach isn’t as important as the Offensive Coordinator when it comes to offensive production. It’s seems to me with all the hot young minds in the nation to chose from Kirk went for a safe choice. Not necessarily a good choice. Unless things change I think he made the wrong choice. That’s a thing a head coach can be blamed for.

This offense could not make a first down against tall grass when it throws the ball, and at Northwestern once again wasted a 100-yard rushing effort with suspect passing, lousy tackling and… why do I even bother? Nobody in a position to do anything about it is going to, except to repeat that “if we execute, then…” over and over. Well “execution” is starting to sound better all the time, but not the way they mean.

to blame greg davis is to conveniently ignore a few facts:
- vandenberg was crumbling beginning in the midseason of last year with KOK at the helm. if you take out the purdue game his passing rating in the last six games was below this year. his production all came in the 4th quarter after the contest was decided. his first half performances never produced more than 7 points and his last two games? zero points. this is undeniably a vandy issue. we just have learned that greg davis is not a miracle worker.
- texas fans are on record for complaining about greg davis loudly in the two years that texas played in the national championship game so that is all you need to know. they want mac brown out now. they want their dc out now. and they have turned on their oc. they are the second worst fan base in the country behind bama.
- marc reported what davis said he wanted to do this year in numerous reports: fast pace, shotgun, uptempo. well, kf took that out of the offense in the first quarter of the first game. so we practiced in the spring, august and the week before niu the no huddle and then poof, gone. davis was asked to overhaul the identity in a week. classic panic job by kf. i agree that iowa is best as a play action passing team. but davis got bamboozled and i think this is partly why kok left. tired of the ninny ferentz.

I find it funny that people can blame Davis for these issues. Aside from the 2009 season ( Even then could have been very different without a few close calls going there way) the hawks under Kirk have been very mediocre.When people blame Greg Davis for offensive issues I ask them did you watch a game last year? What Changed this year? Almost the entire coaching staff except the guy who puppets these guys. It seems to me Kirk is a micro manger. Let your coaches coach that’s why they were hired.

I’m starting to think sanji has a huge crush on KF cause that is the only thing he talks about….let it go sanji. I’m pretty sure you are beating a dead horse! Tired of you spitting out the same garbage day in and day out. This record is getting old on repeat. You will complain about anything KF does even if it’s winning games buy one…you’ll say “they should of won by 11″. We get it….you hate KF. I’ll bet a buffalo nickel that if he gave you a million dollars in a bag you would complain it wasn’t in a briefcase. Get over it.

Hey, Ben, Sanji is just as frustrated as the rest of us, and his point about paying a coach elite money to give us Meineke Car Care Bowl-level teams year-in and year-out is legitimate. And I have never known him to complain when we win, or to back down from his criticism if we don’t. You need to get over something yourself: The idea that the results we are getting for the money we are paying are acceptable. They aren’t. But if straight information does not suit you, Ben, try Fox News.

I think we all agree we need to win more and lose less. Losses to Central Michigan at Home!!!! Are completely unacceptable!!!

All I’m saying is that we are in rebuilding year. It does happen in college football….it can happen at Iowa. We had alot of players last that played for 2,3,4 years at the their position so it was going to be hard filling those positions with veteran players. We are young and we have a new OC. Rome wasn’t built in one day. As much as I would love for us to go out and kick butt every game but I was prepared for a not so great season. I believe we should be patient as we get use to this new OC. But I agree if this trend continues then yes a change is warranted. I believe in KF, he has done great things at Iowa therefor I stand behind him, I love how he controls his emotions on and off the field. I don’t want a Bo Pelini or the like running up and down screaming. But hey that’s just me.