2023 Iowa Season Thread

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[Hawkinole]

Two safeties were scored by the defense in 2022. Iowa's passing offense scored 42; Iowa's defense scored 40 points.

[Hawkinole]

Iowa scored 230 points total in 2022-23.

• 17.4% of the scoring was by the Iowa defense.
• Including the extra points scored on Iowa TDs scored by the defense, it is an even 20%
• Is there another NCAA defense that has done this well at scoring relative to its scoring offense, ever?  Where is medinabuckeye1 when you need his statistical analysis?
• Certainly not hanging around this depressing thread. He has his own depressing thread.

[FearlessF]

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[Hawkinole]

A former Wisconsin quarterback transfers to a Big Ten rival (yahoo.com)

Deacon Hill, Wisconsin's 3rd team QB transfers to Iowa. His original recruiter at Wisconsin was QB coach Jon Budmayr, now in the analyst position at Iowa.
This may portend advancement for Jon Budmayr at Iowa, but not sure how this helps Deacon Hill to come into a QB room with two other QBs in front of him.

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[LittlePig]

Mixed news for Iowa defensive line

Van Ness has declared for the NFL draft.  He should be an early round draft pick.

But Joe Evans is coming back for a 6th season and Noah Shannon is also coming back. I am a big fan of both players and I am glad they are coming back.

Of course, ever since Iowa has started to go with 8-man rotations on the DL about 5 years ago,  the drop-off from year to year has been minimized because Iowa usually has at least 4 guys coming back each year with experience.  But the more guys you have the better.

[FearlessF]

On Friday morning, Iowa announced that it has reduced its season ticket prices for 2023.

This past season, tickets for Iowa's home games cost anywhere from $345 to $450. Ticket prices for the 2023 season will range from $335 to $425.

Iowa issued a press release on this price reduction.

"We appreciate the investment our fans make each and every gameday to support our student athletes as they compete," Iowa's statement read. "While it seems like the cost of everything else is increasing, we wanted to not only hold our prices steady but reduce them slightly to recognize the support of our greatest fans in America."

[LittlePig]

Well, Iowa's last year's 2022 home schedule was

SoDak St, ISU, Nev, Mich, NW, Wisc, Neb

This year's 2023 home schedule is

Utah St, WMU, MSU, Pur, Minn, Rutgers, ILL

So 2023 probably the biggest teams coming to Iowa City are MSU, Minn and ILL.  That's OK, I guess,  but I can see why they lowered the price a little from 2022.

I am looking forward to 2024 when they hopefully scrap the divisions and start integrating USC and UCLA into the conference schedules.  and also scrap the idea of Iowa needing to play Rutgers every year.

[medinabuckeye1]

Iowa scored 230 points total in 2022-23.

• 17.4% of the scoring was by the Iowa defense.
• Including the extra points scored on Iowa TDs scored by the defense, it is an even 20%
• Is there another NCAA defense that has done this well at scoring relative to its scoring offense, ever?  Where is medinabuckeye1 when you need his statistical analysis?
• Certainly not hanging around this depressing thread. He has his own depressing thread.

I wouldn't even know where to start to find that and I have several depressing threads:

• The UGA/tOSU game thread. So depressing, my team was one point from a National Championship.
• The Basketball thread. So depressing, my AD seems to be ok with annual January collapses, frequent end-of-season collapses, embarrassing losses, no league titles (not even a close call), and never making the second weekend of the tournament. 

[Hawkinole]

I wouldn't even know where to start to find that and I have several depressing threads:

• The UGA/tOSU game thread. So depressing, my team was one point from a National Championship.
• The Basketball thread. So depressing, my AD seems to be ok with annual January collapses, frequent end-of-season collapses, embarrassing losses, no league titles (not even a close call), and never making the second weekend of the tournament.

Heartbreaking thoughts to you, from where all hearts are broken. Is there any capacity at Ohio State that Brian Ferentz could take over?

[LittlePig]

Former Iowa backup QB Alex Padilla has announced he is transferring to SMU.

[Hawkinole]

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[FearlessF]

he didn't have George Kittle and the 9er defense in Ames