Iowa, much like the Big Ten, isn't very good. As another run-of-the-mill, mediocre team coached by three-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, Kirk Ferentz, the Hawkeyes fell on Saturday to the hated Iowa State Cyclones, 20-17.
Thanks to new scheduling hijinks, Iowa is off the schedule until, like, 2019, but let's not lose tabs on our corn-fed friends.
From Black Hearts Gold Pants:
Iowa has three kickers and two punters on the team, three of which are on scholarship. The punters were fine today. The kickers have been so bad that Iowa wouldn't even allow them to kick a field goal in the first half. When Iowa needed a field goal to tie in the fourth quarter, BOTH KICKERS RAN ONTO THE FIELD. You are reading this correctly: Iowa momentarily sent out two kickers to kick a field goal like it was a 35-yard free kick in the fucking Premier League. Marshall Koehn made it, thankfully. The guy with the scholarship did a nice job on two extra points, and probably shouldn't expect to have to kick any more than that in coming weeks given the offensive coordinator and head coach. Iowa didn't recruit the local guy who just beat them, by the way.
Iowa followed that ridiculous display of sideline execution by -- you guessed it -- botching the clock at the end of the game, letting 15 seconds tick away before calling a crucial timeout during Iowa State's final drive. Iowa was celebrating the 2004 team today, a group that is best known for throwing a bomb to beat LSU despite Kirk Ferentz not realizing that the clock was running as the ball was snapped. I guess we just wanted them to feel at home.
It's times like these I'm forced to pray for Vodka Samm's sobriety.
