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15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Iowa seniors: Hello, g... · 0 replies · +1 points

Differences in academic calendars already have an impact. Ohio State, for example, doesn't start its Autumn 2010 term until Sept. 22. The Buckeyes get to focus exclusively on football for several weeks longer than most teams.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Iowa seniors: Hello, g... · 0 replies · +2 points

Unfortunately, there wasn't a title game in 2002. It should have been Iowa (8-0) vs. Ohio State (8-0).

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Bowl executive: Politi... · 0 replies · +2 points

If the Fiesta had chosen Iowa first, the Orange could have chosen TCU. If it had chosen one of the other teams you listed, then the Fiesta could have chosen TCU with its second choice.

15 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Bowl executive: Politi... · 0 replies · +4 points

How can Junker say TCU "was a selection that we had to make with first selection"? TCU was guaranteed a BCS spot, so it wasn't going to get left out, but the Fiesta Bowl wasn't forced to select TCU with its first (or second) selection.

"We thought it incumbent on us to make sure we made the best match-up of available teams possible," Junker said. So the Fiesta Bowl felt that selecting fourth-rated and undefeated TCU first would give it the best match-up. Fine. But don't say you "had to" select TCU.

16 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Coach: Roy Marble Jr. ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Why will he "be known as Devyn" next yrear? Is that his middle name? Is he trying to distinguish himself from his father?

16 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Hawkeye basketball tea... · 0 replies · +1 points

I was there, too, Mike. Bewildered at the time, the crowd chanted at Heathcote mercilessly thoughout the first half while wondering aloud whether his bizarre gameplan would continue the second half. Yet, it was so fun to be there, as it was one of those "we'll probably never witness this again" events.

16 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Hawkeye basketball tea... · 3 replies · 0 points

In 1980 Michigan State had only one stud player, Jay Vincent, and Jud Heathcote felt that Vincent couldn't go all out for 40 minutes - foul trouble, fatigue - so he essntially reduced it to a 20-minute game (that, as you noted, went five extra minutes due to overtime). Iowa led 8-2 late in the first half before the Spartans scored the final two baskets before halftime.

16 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Barta was right to ask... · 0 replies · +1 points

Then criticize the coach, rather than the player.

16 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Barta was right to ask... · 1 reply · +1 points

Still, the complaint is with the coach, not the player.

16 years ago @ GazetteOnline.com - Barta was right to ask... · 0 replies · +1 points

The criticism of WHO-TV isn't regarding Todd Lickliter, the coach - it's regarding John Lickliter, the player. And it's Gary Barta who asked for the apology, not Coach Lickliter. If you wish to criticize Coach Lickliter's recruiting, fine, but that's not what this issue is about; rather, it's about whether such a "satire" of a player who has done nothing wrong was inappropriate.

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