[Herky] N. Dakota State hanging around

[Jeff Napier]

Another case of playing not to lose - Ferentz 1.0   Iowa would have been better off if NDSU had made the 2 point conversion.  Then they would have had to play to win.  I really thought we were going to see our FR kicker attempting a FG for the win.
Look at the time of possession if you want to see why the defense was so tired.

From: kvoigts at wisemanengine.com
To: herky at lists.herky.net
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:41:10 -0500
Subject: Re: [Herky] N. Dakota State hanging around

North Dakota State has a very good team and could hang in any Power Five conference.  This game was going to be close.  No  holding call on the long run, the way the fumble by the NDSU guy bounced away from the end zone and other plays could have turned the game the other way. I wonder why, just like in past years, the Hawks seem to tire at the end of the game and just cannot keep up.  The defense was a half a step slow from the start of the second half. It’s easy to second guess.  I don’t have the playbook and I don’t know the circumstances.  CJ may have been hurting at the end.  I thought, when we received the last kickoff with about 3 ½ minutes to go, that we couldn’t run the clock out by running the ball.  It just wasn’t there.   I would not have been surprised if we would have tried some short, safe play action passes to gain a few yards each time.  So what if we go out of bounds and the clock stops if we could pick up a first down or two?  We had not been gaining on runs throughout the 2nd half, so what was to change?  And the Bison blitz on third down was expected by anyone with any sense of game strategy.  That last series to me was the most disappointing part of the game. Iowa was not pathetic or terrible or anything like that IMO.  Iowa played a very good team and came up short.  It shouldn’t have been that way, but this game was never going to be a blowout.  If Iowa was terrible, we would have been the team being blown out.  This is a really disappointing loss.  Just real tough.  And tough to forget.  We just need to pull one out that we are not supposed to win. Keith Voigts From: Herky [mailto:herky-bounces at lists.herky.net] On Behalf Of Gwen Enokian
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 4:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [Herky] N. Dakota State hanging around Team loss 
They had better game plan and executed it to perfection 
Hawks were pathetic 
Sorry to say that but just awful 
 On Sep 17, 2016 3:04 PM, "Jim Monahan" <jimmonahan8 at gmail.com> wrote:Ditto!  You speaketh the gospel truth, Jeff🤐! 
It's a long season.  
All is not lost.  Call it a learning experience and beat the holy hell out of Wisconsin, etc.
Go, Hawkeyes!!
Jim Monahan
On Sep 17, 2016 14:19, "Jeff Napier" <jnapier111 at outlook.com> wrote:They did more than hand around. They dominated on both lines in the second half. They were the better team and deserved to win. I think Davis did a very poor job of calling plays today. Just kept trying to do the same thing when it did not work all game.> From: steve at somermeyer.com
> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 14:19:56 -0400
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> Subject: [Herky] N. Dakota State hanging around
> 
> Tough penalties & dropped passes have cost the Hawks. They should be up by 14 & maybe 21 instead of the 21-14 score. 
> 
> Dodged an injury bullet w/CJ.
> 
> Come on defense!
> Go Hawks!
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