McCarney returns to Kinnick Stadium, his personal playground as a kid, when his North Texas team plays at Iowa on Saturday. That’s as good as we can be right now, but that’s not our goal, not even close, ” Iowa cornerback Greg Mabin said Tuesday. McCarney will square off with a familiar foe, Kirk Ferentz, whose Hawkeyes have opened with three workmanlike victories. Maryland will need a much cleaner performance if it is going to compete in Morgantown. “I started screaming but there was no time”.
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“I’ll always be proud of my Iowa City roots, and I’m always proud to tell people that I’m an Iowan”, he said. Ferentz has won 118 games in 17 years at Iowa and now has 68 wins against conference foes.
“For us to go through a game like that and to win it on the last possible play of the game, that was gratifying, too”, Ferentz said, “So, hopefully, those are all learning experiences”. Ferentz said. “I was just glad that everything worked out”. “We are a mature team in that respect and the approach doesn’t change now”.
“Everybody left saying, really?”, said Ferentz. The Mean Green will be stuck in neutral, while Hawkeye QB C.J. Beathard deftly spreads the ball around to RB Jordan Canzeri and receivers Tevaun Smith and Matt VandeBerg.
“Getting rid of the emotion of that game within 24 hours wasn’t easy to do”.
McCarney has run onto the Kinnick turf from the visiting locker room as the head coach at Iowa State, an assistant coach at Wisconsin and now the head coach at North Texas.
Iowa ranks fifth nationally in rush defense and joins Boston College, Utah and Navy in not allowing rushing scores this season.
He played quarterback in high school at Waukon, Iowa, and was a linebacker until being shifted to the line during bowl preparations last season.
“I’m facing crowd ready to dance. here comes the whole team after”, said Lexie Drevlin, another Iowa dancer.
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McKnight, who had been dealing with a knee injury since August, suffered a torn ACL when he stepped on a teammate’s foot at practice last week, while Schulte endured a similar injury in the Dutch’s season-opening win over Washington.
