Hawkeye football.

Tomarrow is national signing day in college football and my favorite team the Iowa Hawkeyes are in a very fimiliar place in the recruiting wars.They find themselves right in the middle of the pack. The Hawks recruiting class according to Rivals.com is rated 52nd out of 125 division 1 schools. Looking at the current roster Iowa has a solid  returning core of players and the future seems to be not without at least a glimmer of hope. Coming off a 4-8 season the doom and gloom faction of Hawkeye rooters will sound the alarm and scream to replace coach Ferentz. They may be calling for a change but i might remind them that  the program has rebounded on two other occasions and their is no reason to believe it cannot happen again. There are 3 types of Iowa football fans within the fan base. The first type i will call the old school hawk fans who remember the period of non winning between roughly 1962 and 1980 when Iowa did not have a winning season. They appreciate winning and have lots of patience when dealing with losing seasons.The second type of fan believes that whatever the program does is NEVER good enough. When Coach Ferentz led the Hawkeyes to 3 consective seasons of a top 10 national ranking they glibly responded with the statement he makes enough money he ought to do that every year. The third type of fan is the bandwagon fan who quickly jumps on and off the bandwagon and calls a season a failure if the team doesnt win at least 8 games. They believed that after Iowas success under Ferentz that iowa had turned the corner and had become Ohio state. That is ridiculous. The program realistically can compete and become a solid top 20 team in the nation again if we stay the course with kirk and his new staff.  Iowa is not an elite school in terms of recruiting but it can return to its former level of success because Ferentz is the best coach in the country at developing talent and coaching a style of football that is a proven success.