re: This was the 5th year senior class you guys beat in Tampa (link)...

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Thats not the point. Saying we only beat y'all because you didn't have any 5th year seniors is crazy. How many teams do you think are just chalked full of 5th year seniors? Do you think if your players were still hanging around after 5 years they would be good enough to beat LSU? Great players don't stay 4 years much less 5.

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You just don't understand how Iowa's program is set up. Iowa wins with mature players, not young talent. Totally opposite from LSU. We just can't get the recruits you do, so we have to build players and that takes time.

We do have some players who leave early (Dallas Clark, Brian Bulaga, Reilly Reiff, Shonn Greene and some others), but the majority of players are there for a full college career and leave with a degree.

I think it speaks volumes that we average recruiting class ranks in the forties, but have the 15th most players in the NFL.

We do much more with "less" than nearly anyone else. This is a testament to the coaching and one of the reasons Ferentz is payed as well as he is. For little old Iowa to finish in the top ten 25% of his career is truly amazing. We also are the 15th most valuable college program in the nation per Forbes.

This from the third smallest school in the Big Ten with the second least populous state in the BT that puts out fewer than ten D-1 recruits per year and splits them with another BCS conference school.