7-5 they. Disappointed:
http://thegazette.com/2011/12/15/iowa-is-in-the-insight-bowl-for-one-reason/
Updated: 15 December 2011 | 7:58 am in Hawkeye Football, Iowa Hawkeyes, Sports, The Hlog by Mike Hlas
Iowa is in the Insight Bowl for one reason …
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… and that reason is Jerry Sandusky.
Penn State was (and is) poisonous. Too toxic, even at 9-3, for a bowl game with as little national renown as the Insight Bowl. Too toxic, even at 9-3, for a bowl game with as little national renown as the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas. So the Insight took 7-5 Iowa instead of the Nittany Lions, and the Meinke selected 6-6 Northwestern instead of the Lions.
Gary Barta
But we all knew that. I bring it up today because, as Marc Morehouse’s On Iowa blog illustrated in this recent post, Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta was working the Insight Bowl for a second-straight Hawkeyes invitation before the bowl decided to eschew Penn State in favor of Iowa.
Barta cited a lot of numbers. One that had very high relevancy was the attendance for last year’s Iowa-Missouri game at Tempe’s Sun Devil Stadium, a bowl-record 53,888. That’s one that the bowl surely didn’t dismiss.
http://thegazette.com/2011/12/15/iowa-is-in-the-insight-bowl-for-one-reason/
Updated: 15 December 2011 | 7:58 am in Hawkeye Football, Iowa Hawkeyes, Sports, The Hlog by Mike Hlas
Iowa is in the Insight Bowl for one reason …
*
… and that reason is Jerry Sandusky.
Penn State was (and is) poisonous. Too toxic, even at 9-3, for a bowl game with as little national renown as the Insight Bowl. Too toxic, even at 9-3, for a bowl game with as little national renown as the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas. So the Insight took 7-5 Iowa instead of the Nittany Lions, and the Meinke selected 6-6 Northwestern instead of the Lions.
Gary Barta
But we all knew that. I bring it up today because, as Marc Morehouse’s On Iowa blog illustrated in this recent post, Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta was working the Insight Bowl for a second-straight Hawkeyes invitation before the bowl decided to eschew Penn State in favor of Iowa.
Barta cited a lot of numbers. One that had very high relevancy was the attendance for last year’s Iowa-Missouri game at Tempe’s Sun Devil Stadium, a bowl-record 53,888. That’s one that the bowl surely didn’t dismiss.
Top five travel team in all of college football is IOWA..........................
Thanks for the bump 5teamer.................
In all liklihood will be traveling to PHOENIX to witness the Hawkeyes get destroyed by Oklahoma....................I'm basically going just for the parties..................in fact, that's the main reason.
