Hail the BISON!!!
It's great to finally have rb that are explosive. Makes such a difference that both lance and Bruce can make guys miss and take it to the house on every play. Frasier and Morlock were to slow to scare defenses.
I heard Ty Brooks' interview on 1660 last week and he was asked about the differences between Polasek and Messingham. One thing I found interesting was he said Mess doesn't care who's on the field for a given play, but Polasek wanted specific personnel for every play (I think that is what I understood anyway). Seems like opposing coaches could pick that apart on film...
The white jerseys are the best. Don't even bother to argue.
Slightly off topic, I heard the Iowa Hawkeyes Sports writer talk about the win against Cyclones last week and they like how their RB Akrum Wadley was used in that game. Looks like Coach P is doing some good stuff in Hawkeye country.
" Our strategy for winning against BISON was simple, we put our WRs and RBs in a 1 on 1 situation with their defense in the backfield.....everybody knows they have some freshman who cannot tackle in a 1 on 1 situation.....Joe Glen"
I was at that game. Wadley is a stud, but they actually didn't have that great of a day running the ball compared to what Iowa usually does against ISU. 4.0 YPC against a pretty inexperienced and thin but improving Cyclone front 7, that has last year's starting QB now playing middle linebacker. Wadley had a couple ridiculous runs on dump offs out of the back field, very elusive.
By mid season? I would say we are doing quite nicely. Riley has been amazing since he got here (especially during the transition). He recruits an attitude. He is as intense as they come. At Eastern we were without our starting FB, our best blocking WR and our starting LT and we embarrassed them physically. Eastern was dead. Messingham has been terrific. Really impressive recruiter as well. A lot of great experience.
Everyone just relax, all right? Believe me, if there's one thing Ron Burgundy knows, it's women.