Ah, for a half it truly felt like the corner had been turned. The halftime yardage was 182-20. We’d even driven the ball 74 yards to sneak in a touchdown just before the gun. Even the final numbers were 334-164 in yards. It shouldn’t have been close.
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But Kirk Ferentz, head Iowa football coach accused by dozens of former players of racial discrimination along with his son who was fired for ineptness as an offensive coordinator and not the aforementioned accusations, went with a strategy which has worked since the football gods saw fit to remove Mike Riley from his life.