It would be wrong to say Ferentz didn’t explain himself; he had a 13-minute opening statement and talked for 45 minutes, mostly about offense. He referenced the ‘81, ‘89, 90, ‘99 and ‘09 seasons, some godforsaken win over Purdue in the great flood of ’02, and a stat that, over some period of recent time, Iowa is 55-3 when it scores 24 points. And I believe it. Ferentz plays in the Big Ten West, where offenses move like cream gravy over chicken fried steak.
Ferentz had another defense of his son. Clever, in a sense.
“There was never a coordinator fired here during my nine years with Coach (Hayden) Fry,” Ferentz said.
Fry’s OC — for ten years — was Bill Snyder.