The 2011 Big 10 Thread
 

New thread for a new year! Bad news, everyone but Michigan fans- Rich Rod is gone!

You were waiting on that glorious announcement to launch this thread, weren't you?

Ahh the smell of a fresh Big Ten thread.

Let's start this off right...last week of the season brings the new Farmaggeddon. **** you Wisconsin, you can't just decide who gets to be your rivals, especially when you have absolutely no attachment other than our AD used to go to school there. Iowa-Nebraska was so painfully obvious for the last weekend and a new rivalry that I don't know how anyone could deny that. Iowa-Nebraska >>>>>>>>>>> Wisconsin-Nebraska.

Oh also, suckers got screwed in the divisional allignment. :)

Daniel Herron says he's returning for his senior year. That leaves just Mike Adams to confirm he's staying and that he's not gonna betray his word, and there are some doubters.

I know, pretty boring for the third post in the thread. so I'll add this:

ESPN is reporting that there have been about 20 of these billboards put up in Columbus, Ohio. I got a little chuckle out of it.

PS - I hope Nebraska goes 0-8 in conference this year.

too bad Ohio State fans really don't care about TCU. We won our bowl and we didn't play TCU. They could put one up on Gee's street, but this is about the same as Cincinnati putting up those "Ohio's BCS team" billboards last year. Little Brother complex.

So with the expectation that Shaun Prater, Tyler Sash, and Marvin McNutt are going to skip their senior seasons, Iowa is going to be a pretty young/green team this year...

QB - Jonathon Moxon - RS Junior with 2 starts + other limited PT
RB - Marcus Coker - True Soph and monster - 622 yards in 3 starts + some
Deandre Johnson - RS Freshman
Rodney Coe/Mikail McCall - True Freshmen
WR - Keenan Davis - True Junior - Limited PT last 2 seasons and basically
only returning WR with experience
Jordan Cotton/Other RS Jrs/RS or True Sophs
TE - Brad Herman - Senior - Back up TE this year with good experience
CJ Fiedorowicz - True Soph - STs experience
LT - Riley Reiff - RS Jr - no explanation necessary
LG - Adam Gettis - RS Sr - some experience, always hurt
C - James Ferentz - True Jr. - good experience
RG - Nolan MacMillan/Casey McMillan - RS Soph - limited to no experience
RT - Markus Zusevics - Sr. - Started every game in 2010

DE - Broderick Binns - Senior - Was starter in 2009 and half of 2010
DT - Mike Daniels - Senior - Beasted in 2010 as a part time starter
DT - Steve Bigch - Jr. - Limited experience
DE - Lebron Daniel - Senior - Limited Experience
LB - Tyler Nielsen - Senior - Limited Experience
LB - James Morris - True Soph - Prepare your anuses Big Ten
LB - Someone that has limited to no experience
CB - Micah Hyde - Jr. - INT return specialist
CB - Greg Castillo/William Lowe - Soph/Jr - limited experience and meh
SS - Tanner Miller - Soph - 1 game experience (I think)
FS - Jordan Bernstein - Senior - Used to start at CB

So yea, that's a lot of inexperience and youth. Should be an eventful season. Hopefully Coker can just go Shonn Greene on everyone and the defense is somewhat dominant as usual.

Wait, this guy?

Is John Vought (sp?) also taking over as Iowa's head coach?

THIS, IS A RUNNIN' TEAM BOY

The son that came from this greatness:



is who our QB is.

The rest of the Big Ten can thank us later.

Whatever happened to John Weinke?

From what I've gathered, he and Vandenberg were basically level last year and the staff liked Vandenberg just a bit more, which is why he go the nod at NW, OSU, and Minnesota. He's supposedly not too far behind.

I mean, as of right now, Vandenberg is assumed to be the starter, but it isn't set in stone. Weinke will have a shot and if he has a good offseason we could see splitting snaps to start the year much like Iowa did in 08 with Christensen and Stanzi, in actually a very similar situation coming in.

Robert Bolden is not leaving Penn State.

By choice?

Somewhat. Now I am just paraphrasing because I was too lazy to read the whole article, but I believe that his HS coach told him to stay and had a talk with him. So, I guess he got forced to stay and he also wanted to stay by just cooling down and thinking things over. I don't know.

Check out this late cheap shot Arky mofo try to take Heyward out.

Grayson should get his ass kicked. Apparently he's done this before.

Yeah, that sucked. Either way, Heyward, taking those shots and working through those holes showed how much of an animal he can really be.

We have no one that can play like him for next year.

How do you guys think our DL will look?

DE: Williams
DT: Hankerson
DT:Simon
DE: Newsome? Durham? Where will Bellamy get his snaps? We've a lot of youth here. Talented indeed, but young.

Our defense is about to go through a big makeover. Dorant Grant and Dom Clarke will battle for time opposite Howard at CB I think.

I hope Guiton or Taylor Grahm get the nod over Bauserman.

Iowa City is apparently the new center for the most musically gifted people...



Just the latest in the long line of recent awesome Iowa music/music videos.

Not confirmed but there are rumblings that Miles could be Michigan's coach within the next day or two.

That's completely bush league crap. Can't believe that. Saw it live, but I thought he was on the ground anyway. Complete intent to injure there....Good thing it didn't amount to anything serious.

My guess is, not happening. The rumblings seem to be coming from LSU message boards, while LSU's players are saying no chance he goes. Neither is really a great source. I'd say at this point there's about as much chance of Brady Hoke as Les Miles.

LEO-Nathan Williams
DT-John Simon
DT-Johnathan Hankins
DE-Keith Wells (transfers back in the spring)

I think Adam Bellamy might start at the DE opposite Williams since we run an odd front (43 over or straight 34) a lot of the time, especially if Wells is in the doghouse or out of shape or something. Bellamy and Garrett Goebel will play a lot at DE and DT that's for sure.

I think Dionte Allen from Florida State might start opposite Howard at CB, but it could be Clarke who knows.

I hope Braxton Miller tears it up this spring and summer and beats out Bauserman and Guiton for the QB job. No one knows how good Graham is, he missed most of his senior year with injury and most of his freshman year here with injury. Seems like Tressel would put in a runner like Guiton or Miller before he puts out a green QB like Graham who is solely a pocket passer.

We lose a lot on defense (Hines, Heyward, Rolle, Homan, Chekwa, Torrence, Gant, Larimore) but we'll still be really awesome on that side of the ball next year, that's how awesome Tressel is. Barnett and Moeller come back from injury, Sabino takes off his redshirt, Sweat moves to WLB where he will dominate, and either Storm Klein or Dorian Bell step into the 3rd LB spot. Howard and Bryant and Hankins all looked like they are ready to start as well based on their play this year.

Hopefully PSU gets a very good OL coach because they have some very nice talent to work with in the next few years.

Dionte Allen is awful.

hoping beyond hope that LeShoure, Luiget, or Wilson stick around for their Senior season (really hoping all 3 do but that's fantasy land).

Illinois will always be a "middle of the pack"...so all we really want are bowl games and signs of improvement. Illinois is never gonna compete for the Big 10 title (we may get lucky here or there but it'll never be consistent)...so as long as we can get some good recruits in here and be competitive...that's all any Illini fan can realistically hope for.

Hoping for a 9-3 or 8-4 season