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Topic: 2023 Iowa Season Thread

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #70 on: December 13, 2022, 10:27:49 AM »
Sounds like Jestin Jacobs is going to Oregon and Isaac Bruce is going to Kansas State.

Jacobs father said that Jestin is graduating and looking for something different (meaning money)  and Oregon has plenty of money to throw around.
man that's a bad career choice for an LB...leave a team that plays great defense and has great defensive coaching that continually develops no star defensive players into NFL draft picks for a team that doesn't really play much if any defense and has a pair of 5* LBs that have been considered busts/major disappointments in Justin Flowe and Noah Sewell.

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #71 on: December 13, 2022, 05:16:42 PM »
According to Statista, between 2021 and 2022, out of the unbelievable global corn production total of over 2.6 trillion pounds, around 864 billion pounds were made in the United States, or nearly 1/3 of the total. In 2021, Iowa alone produced nearly 143 billion pounds of corn, per the United States Department of Agriculture. (The Iowa Corn tells us that a bushel of corn is equal to 56 pounds.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/which-u-s-state-produces-the-most-corn/ar-AA15dUgi?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=564888e31bf74eab8292032ce091078a

The association's website explains that the state has the perfect conditions for corn production since it has a long growing season and receives considerable rainfall. Additionally, Iowa has fertile soil, which is only made more productive by the overabundance of waste produced by its large livestock population.

Corn isn't the only agricultural area in which Iowa claims the top spot. The Des Moines Register tells us that the state led the nation in both pork and egg production in 2021 and, in the same year, was the soybean production runner-up to Illinois. Agriculture is an inextricably part of Hawkeye society; Iowa Farmer Today, citing a 2017 USDA census, explains that almost 1/5 of the state's population is employed in the agricultural sector.


Statista reveals that the average American consumer ate 4.4 pounds of sweet corn in 2021. Obviously, this is nowhere near the national total corn production.

According to Iowa Corn, the vast majority of corn grown in the state — as much as 99% of the total crop yield — is a variety generally known as field corn. Though you're not going to enjoy a buttered cob of field corn, it still appears in your diet in the form of cereals, corn syrups, and oils. However, that still represents a relatively small percentage of the crop's usage. Iowa Corn goes on to explain that well over 50% of the state's corn supply is turned into ethanol, a renewable fuel source, and over 40% of the annual corn crop goes toward feeding livestock.
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #72 on: December 13, 2022, 06:27:27 PM »
This thread is truly off-season, now. Iowa was the leading chicken producing state in 2020. The chicken production title rotates. 

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #73 on: December 13, 2022, 06:28:45 PM »
Tyson chicken
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #74 on: December 14, 2022, 12:40:13 PM »
it's official, former Michigan TE Erick All to follow his BFF Cade to Iowa.

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #75 on: December 14, 2022, 01:06:09 PM »
so, yer sayin there's a chance Brian's offense can improve
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #76 on: December 14, 2022, 01:13:28 PM »
so, yer sayin there's a chance Brian's offense can improve
they'll definitely be better on offense. no where to go but up when you are down that low.

Cade isn't some superstar QB that's going to change the game for them and turn them into a high powered offense overnight, but he's a massive upgrade over what they had in Spencer Petras. Cade is a solid, average to above average starting B1G QB. He's a steadying hand a solid player- but he's not going to put up massive #'s or make game changing plays and win you games. But he'll get you in and out of the right plays, execute the offense, and generally won't lose you games. Which is a massive upgrade over what they've been trotting out at QB.

All will be a big boost in the arm to their offense. He's a legit All-B1G caliber TE when healthy and probably a 2nd-4th rd NFL draft pick depending on the production he puts up this year, medical with the surgery, and what he tests at the combine. He's a legit future NFL player and draft pick. Cade isn't imo.

They should still fire Brian. There will always be a ceiling to what they can be on offense bc of him.

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #77 on: December 14, 2022, 01:20:27 PM »
Cade McNamara said in a recent interview that Iowa and Nebraska are much better set up and farther ahead in the whole NIL pricess right now than Michigan is.  I am sure this set off alarm bells at Michigan and they will be scrambling to figure out what Cade exactly meant by that.

The whole portal/NIL process seems to be one confusing mess right now.  Sure there are rules but there is nobody that wants to enforce them, especially the NCAA.    Players are not supposed to be negotiating NIL deals until after they officially transfer.   But players seem to know even before they enter the portal what the other schools are offering.   

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #78 on: December 14, 2022, 01:24:04 PM »
it's official, former Michigan TE Erick All to follow his BFF Cade to Iowa.
I wonder if Eric All will play in the playoffs for Michigan.  I am guessing no since he will want to be enrolled at Iowa in January.

Edit: I guess Eric All had back surgery in October and is out for the season.  So he was not going to play for Michigan in the playoffs anyway.

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #79 on: December 14, 2022, 02:02:45 PM »
Cade McNamara said in a recent interview that Iowa and Nebraska are much better set up and farther ahead in the whole NIL pricess right now than Michigan is.  I am sure this set off alarm bells at Michigan and they will be scrambling to figure out what Cade exactly meant by that.

The whole portal/NIL process seems to be one confusing mess right now.  Sure there are rules but there is nobody that wants to enforce them, especially the NCAA.    Players are not supposed to be negotiating NIL deals until after they officially transfer.  But players seem to know even before they enter the portal what the other schools are offering. 
Cade was talking about NIL collectives which offer players X amount as a "base salary". Michigan doesn't really have that. Texas for example there was an NIL collective that started a program to pay every offensive linemen at Texas $50,000 a year or something like that. I believe Iowa and Nebraska have similar collectives right now. Michigan doesn't. 

But the starting QB and star players at Michigan can make ton of NIL money. Michigan's starting QB (Cade last year, JJ this year) and star players (think Blake Corum) can and have made lotta $$$ through NIL deals. Hell Cade got an NIL deal last year to be a brand spokesman for Tom Brady's new clothing line he launched exclusively at Nordstrom, BRADY- how you think Cade got that deal? Not because he was some amazing player on the field and superstar with a big name like a Trevor Lawerence or Joe Burrow. It was because Tom Brady is a former Michigan QB who still supports the Michigan football program heavily. Blake Corum has tons of big $$$ NIL deals right now as does JJ. JJ has NFL super agent Drew Rosenhaus handling all of his NIL deals. 

I think they basically just need to make freshman ineligible from receiving NIL money. Idk how you do that, but do it. That way high school recruits can't sign to go to schools for money. And really it makes ZERO sense to pay a snot nosed high school kid that hasn't done jacksh*t big money. Why wouldn't you just go after guys in the portal who are proven with big NIL deals?

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #80 on: December 14, 2022, 02:04:13 PM »
I wonder if Eric All will play in the playoffs for Michigan.  I am guessing no since he will want to be enrolled at Iowa in January.

Edit: I guess Eric All had back surgery in October and is out for the season.  So he was not going to play for Michigan in the playoffs anyway.
yeah he's not close to being ready to play. rumors are Michigan doctors weren't going to clear him to play at Michigan again. He didn't just have a back surgery, it was a spinal surgery. Those kinda things can be tricky. And he went outside of Michigan's medical team to get the surgery and he went against their advice in having the surgery.

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #81 on: December 14, 2022, 02:43:46 PM »
hah, the "schools" don't offer or provide NIL $$$

but, some schools (iowa, nebraska) do have a phone number of an "outside" entity that they can provide...
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #82 on: December 14, 2022, 02:46:03 PM »
hah, the "schools" don't offer or provide NIL $$$

but, some schools (iowa, nebraska) do have a phone number of an "outside" entity that they can provide...
yeah the schools can't offer anything, but the booster collectives can kinda work hand in hand with the schools. I'll bet that some schools work more closely with the collectives than others. 

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #83 on: December 14, 2022, 02:48:08 PM »
ed zachery

UNL jumped all over the opportunity and want to be a leader in the area and push the limits
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