Every bowl season, someone in another conference gets the full Iowa Experience.
Yes, there's a two-star recruit OL who is a future NFL Draft pick. No, you can't block the defensive front. Yes, there's always another tight end you've never heard of making plays.
Once again, we see an example of how metrics in college football cannot measure what some Big Ten teams can do.
Kaden Wetjen's threat made Vanderbilt try to get cute and turn the ball over by kicking it over the line of scrimmage.
Many college football metrics are not capable of giving Iowa the proper credit they deserve for that play.
@Colts_Coverage Rodgers only had 203 yards because he had short fields to work with all day. The pass defense was not good, and we got no pressure after the early sacks. Buckner seemed to me to be MIA all day on passing downs.
Charlie Kirk would have been president. His friends knew it. His admirers knew it. And his enemies knew it.
This universal confidence in Charlie’s future began with his countless political accomplishments. At 18, he founded Turning Point USA, which went on to become the most important cultural organization on the American Right. By 22, he was addressing the Republican National Convention. Three years later, he founded Turning Point Action, which led the get-out-the-vote efforts that delivered the first Republican popular vote victory in twenty years. In his spare time, Charlie published five books, hosted a national talk show, married a lovely wife, and fathered two beautiful children. All of that by 31.
Charlie’s appearance inspired as much confidence as his accomplishments. At a towering six-foot-five slouching, he joked that he had descended from the Nephilim—the giant “fallen ones” of the Old Testament. He might have been born with such a nature, as are we all, but he was not content to remain so. Charlie loved his Savior. The zeal with which he debated politics paled in comparison to the excitement with which he discussed religion. And his religious life bore fruit.
Turning Point launched a Faith division to focus specifically on his followers’ souls. There too, Charlie’s enthusiasm for open debate set the tone, as he invited atheists and even Catholics to take part. But he didn’t need a specific religious conference to convey his faith. Charlie Kirk’s religion bore fruit in everything he did.
Discerning observers believed in Charlie Kirk, not chiefly for his accolades or his appearance, but for his manifest virtue. Charlie’s prudence, the principal virtue in politics, built a generational coalition that helped to transform the American government. His temperance distinguished him as one of the few on the Right to eschew whisky, cigars, and every other delight that might have distracted him from his purpose, for which he had so little time. His sense of justice produced clarity in moral vision and grace for his opponents. His fortitude impelled him to enter the public square without a hint of servile fear.
Charlie’s only fear was the holy sort—awe and wonder, the beginning of wisdom—and his clearest virtues were theological: faith, hope, and charity. We mourn his death, we take up his cause, and we entrust him, as he confidently entrusted himself, to God’s care.
In the past 15 years here’s a list of starting quarterbacks under the age of 23 who have led their team to a playoff berth:
2023: C.J. Stroud- 22 years old
2019: Lamar Jackson- 22 years old
2012: Andrew Luck- 22 years old, Robert Griffin III- 22 years old
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@AR5Renaissance Go back and tell me what he could have done. No chance would he have gotten any of the top QB's in that class. Everyone that was in front of us had more ammunition in their pockets to outbid us on any trade we could have offered.
@LaNaptown@K8Fryman Exactly. Being that young and having no off-season to improve timing and chemistry with your wide receivers hurt him. Hopefully, that all improves this off-season.
@killakellerflow @K8Fryman Because bringing in a new gm means new everything sometimes. They will want to bring in their own people. I don't want to be the Chicago Bears.