OC Ken O’Keefe calls for a rollout left pass, resulting in Stanzi throwing unnaturally across his body and across the field to a wide open Derrell Johnson-Koulianos for a first down. My favorite part is when the announcer says (I am paraphrasing) “what a brilliant call, I mean here they call a roll out left, which is not natural for Stanzi and…” and then the announcer sort of stops his train of thought because he realizes how maybe rolling out that way wasn’t so brilliant after all. Well, it worked out, but I still feel like off tackle or position placement is better here. Murray had a good leg, I know the wind was bad, but why risk a TO?

addressing the controversiality of the officiating in that game. While there’s no use crying over spilt milk, it was an incredibly frustrating pass interference call that I will never accept should have been called. But if you want an armchair QB moment, how about Penn State’s insistence on running gadget plays late with the lead, resulting in an holding penalty and interception inside of FG range?
1st and 10 from the Iowa 24…where do 2 consecutive Derrick Williams sweeps rank? I’d put it as awful playcalling.

“Murray had a good leg.” – That hadn’t had a meaningful kick since September. And it missed that one. It’s not like a 41 yard kick is ever a gimmie for a college kicker, but especially in that pressure situation.

The best part about this call was the context of the past two seasons. Jake Christensen, the 4 Star recruit who was Iowa’s 2007 QB and lost his job to Stanzi, was a lefty. All Ken O’Keefe called in 2007 were rollout right pases. This resulted in a ridiculous amount of lame ducks thrown across Jake’s body. Obviously, KOK redesigned the playbook for his lefty QB in 2008 - only to have a righty back under center by this point. Well, the play says roll left, so we’ll keep rolling left. I expect that KOK has had the eight months necessary for him to flip the plays back in their original direction again.