UNI game recap- special teams and coaching

K- Murray looked okay, really hanging his kickoffs up in the air and allowing his coverage team to get down the field. Didn't get to see much FG wise, but if he keeps it up, look for Mossbrucker to red-shirt and save a year of eligibility.

P- Donahue was a star on Saturday, he won't get the accolades that he deserves because he doesn't go for yardage as much as he does height. It would be interesting how many punts he has returned this season. He only had one of his five punts returned on Saturday and that one went for -2 yards, four of his five punts were inside the 20

Coverage units were good on Saturday, the longest kick return was 19 yards with UNI averaging less than 14 yards per kick return. Bruce Davis did a nice job covering kicks as well as David Cato.

Coaching- I thought the defensive coaches called a good game for the most part. Saw more blitzes than I had seen in years from Iowa, even had a zone blitz with Clayborn defending a pass in the end zone. Thought that they needed to rotate more in the DL, could tell they were gassed on the last drive. Need to find a 5th DB so they can go to a nickle defense, I hate seeing LB's out on receivers all game long. Too many line stunts on run plays, really hurt the DL at times. Offensively there was no rhythm. In the first half it was the metaphoric bashing your head into the wall. O'Keefe basically said we are going to run the ball come hell or high water and it just didn't work. Without a big play back, you cannot have a TE, FB, and RB, that allows the defense to put too many players in the box. If he would go to a three wide set with a TE and single back, it would spread the defense out and open up running lanes, ie what opposing offenses do to Iowa. Clock management was horrible with Stanzi snapping the ball with more than 10 seconds on the play clock several times in the last couple minutes. Calling a pass on second down on their last drive and it being incomplete stopped the clock instead of 40 seconds rolling off or UNI using a TO if they had run it.