Last week, I posted the most recent edition of "Who the Heck is Pitt Playing?" which was about the Iowa Hawkeyes. It was prepared like the other previews I had done where I looked at returning players and who had a chance to make an impact when Pitt played against them. 

However, deciding to try something different, I reached out to Iowa's SB Nation blog, Black Heart Gold Pants, in the hopes that they would help me prepare a preview on the 2011 Iowa football team. I told them I wasn't expecting anything long, but rather a brief preview of each position and whether it would be a strength or weakness for Iowa.

I take my role as a contributor seriously. I was planning on copying and pasting BHGP's response into my post, believing it would be well written with a touch of humor, like most of BHGP's posts. But, due to Big Ten Media Days occurring last week, this is what I received:

Iowa football is going to play the Pittsburgh Panthers in a college football
game on September 17, 2011, which is ironically six days after the tenth
anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack.  On that day Al Qaeda
people attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in
Washington D.C.  Everything changed after the September 11 terrorist
attack.  There were many factors that caused the September 11 attack.

The quarterback is the most important position on a football team's
offensive team.  Iowa no longer has star quarterback Ricky Stanzi.  James
Vandenberg is the new quarterback.  Ricky Stanzi was a good quarterback.  He
started for three years.  James Vandenberg did not start during those years
because most football teams only use one quarterback at a time.  James
Vandenberg is a junior.  He likes fishing.  He will be a good quarterback.
Iowa has black and gold uniforms patterned after the Steelers...that's maybe
the most compelling storyline of the game.

Iowa likes to use running plays when playing on offense in football.  Some
running plays go left, some running plays go right.  Most teams use the same
running back for plays that go left as they do for plays that go right.
There are many factors in a running back that have to be weighed carefully
every time.  The Iowa Hawkeyes football team will likely use Marcus Coker as
their running back on most running plays.  He is very fast and strong.  When
weighing these factors, most teams weigh fastness and strength.  Marcus
Coker ran for 219 yards and two touchdowns in the 2010 Insight Bowl, which
is a college football game played between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Missouri
Tigers.  Iowa and Missouri border each other.  They are both Midwestern
states.

Wide receivers catch the ball when the quarterback decides to throw the
football.  Wide receivers run in patterns called pass patterns that they
decide before the play.  Iowa has two wide receivers named Marvin McNutt and
Keenan Davis.  Marvin McNutt used to play quarterback for the Iowa Hawkeyes,
so he knows a lot about football.  He is very tall and fast.  He caught 53
passes in 2010 for 853 yards and 8 touchdowns.  Touchdowns are worth six
points, but a team can kick another point called the extra point to score
seven points.  Keenan Davis is a new receiver.  Derrell Johnson-Koulianos
got in trouble with the police and missed the Insight Bowl game between the
Iowa Hawkeyes and Missouri Tigers.  Derrell Johnson-Koulianos is now playing
for the Philadelphia Eagles.  Michael Vick plays for the Philadelphia
Eagles, too.  There are a lot of factors that go into a redemption story.
Keenan Davis is a junior.  Iowa has a wide receiver coach named Erick
Campbell.  His friends call him "Soup" because his name reminds them of
Campbell's Soup.  Erick Campbell used to coach at Michigan.  There are a lot
of factors that go into driving your college football program into the dirt.

Tight ends are like big wide receivers who also "block" defenders during
running plays.  Iowa has two tight ends.  Their names are Brad Herman and
C.J. Fiedorowicz.  Brad Herman is a very large person.  He is the best tight
end and he catches most of the passes.  C.J. Fiedorowicz is even bigger than
Brad Herman!  Many people have said that they think C.J. Fiedorowicz should
play on the offensive line instead of tight end.  C.J. Fiedorowicz once
wanted to play for the Illinois Fighting Illini, but he changed his mind.
There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing where to go to school
and play football that must be weighed carefully every time.

Iowa has an offensive line.  They are big people who "block" defensive
players for the other team.  The players block the other players by using
their hands and arms to push them away from the player with the ball.  This
keeps the player with the ball from being tackled.  The Iowa Hawkeyes have a
good offensive line.  Some people say they think it might be better than the
Iowa Hawkeyes offensive line from the 2010 Insight Bowl game against
Missouri.  James Ferentz plays "center" which is the player who plays in the
center of the line.  His did is Kirk Ferentz who is the head coach of the
Iowa Hawkeyes.  James Ferentz "calls the plays" for the other offensive
linemen.  He is like the quarterback of the offensive line.  There are many
factors to consider when choosing your offensive line.  Iowa Hawkeyes
coaches like Kirk Ferentz consider them all.  Iowa's best offensive lineman
is probably Riley Reiff, because he plays left tackle which is probably the
most important position on the offensive line.  Riley Reiff is from South
Dakota, which is where Mount Rushmore is from.

Of the four defensive linemen on Iowa's defensive line, only one played last
year.  The other three are new.  Mike Daniels is probably the most important
defensive lineman because he played in 2010, including in the Insight Bowl
game against Missouri.  Actually Mike Daniels played in every game in 2010
for the Iowa Hawkeyes!  He is very big and strong.  Some people say he is
the strongest player on the team.  There are other defensive linemen who
also play.

Linebackers are players who are put behind the defensive line to tackle
running backs and tight ends.  Iowa has three linebackers.  They are good
linebackers.  James Morris plays middle linebacker, which is like the
quarterback of the defense because he calls the plays in every game.  He is
a sophomore.  He only played last year because three other players got hurt
and there were no more linebackers on the Iowa Hawkeyes!  Tyler Nielsen
plays outside linebacker.  He is a senior and a "team leader" on the
defensive team.  There are many factors to weigh in deciding on a team
leader.  Tyler Nielsen broke his neck last year, but he is still playing
football for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Shaun Prater plays cornerback, which is like quarterback only the opposite.
Cornerbacks play against the wide receivers and try to stop the wide
receivers from catching the pass.  Shaun Prater is very good at playing
against wide receivers.  He is a senior.  He might some day get a chance to
play in the National Football League.  He thought very long and very tough
about going out for the National Football League this summer, but he weighed
the many important factors and did not go.  He will go next year.  There are
also safeties, which are the defensive players who play all the way back
behind everyone else.  Micah Hyde is one safety, and Jordan Bernstine is
probably the other.  They have never played safety before, but the first two
safeties are now playing in the pros.  Micah Hyde had two interception
returns for touchdowns last year even though he only intercepted one of the
passes.  A player once pitched him the ball after an interception and he ran
for a touchdown.  You can pitch the ball to a teammate if he's behind you.

The 2011 Iowa Hawkeyes football team will be a good football team, and their
game with the Pittsburgh Panthers on September 17, 2011 will be a good
football game.  It will be in Iowa City.

Obviously, this is not what I was expecting went I first reached out to BHGP. At first I thought "Is this a joke?". I soon realized that this is actually what I was sent. So, I made the executive decision to instead write my own preview using BHGP's position previews "Assume the Position" as well as Iowa's Spring Prospectus to write the preview and move on. BHGP was not amused.

So, I am here to say that I am sorry to Black Heart Gold Pants, their fans, and their writers if I offended you by not posting the preview I was sent. However, you all must understand that I did not anticipate being sent this preview. I appreciate the effort that the author put in to writing the piece, but it was not what I wanted and not what I felt was best for Cardiac Hill. I did what I thought would be the right move and I stand by my decision.

If you want to continue to say that the preview is "above the reading level and the humor is way above the head of anyone associated with Pitt ever", that is fine, but understand that I did what I thought was best for this blog and if that includes not posting something I asked for and was given, then so be it.