2023 Iowa Season Thread

[FearlessF]

If Barta approached Kirk about this and Kirk threatened to resign, Barta should have called his bluff.

this, Ed Zachery

[847badgerfan]

Except I doubt that happened. 

[LittlePig]

I know Kirk Ferentz has been accused of being old and stubborn and inflexible before only to see Iowa bounce back with some subtle changes, and for Kirk to be dubbed Ferentz 2.0,  or Ferentz 3.0 or Ferentz 4.0,  but something feels different this time.

It almost feels like Kirk does not even want to try this time.  He is going to do it his way, damn it,  whether it works or not. 

Kirk reminds me of other people I know that have recently retired.  Their last couple of years of work,  they are not pushing for any big improvement and mostly they don't want anything to change because that is their big advantage.  They have years of wisdom they have accumulated, but that only applies if nothing changes.  If something changes,  they need to adapt and change and learn new lessons, which they don't want to do.

[847badgerfan]

Kirk reminds me of other people I know that have recently retired.  Their last couple of years of work,  they are not pushing for any big improvement and mostly they don't want anything to change because that is their big advantage.  They have years of wisdom they have accumulated, but that only applies if nothing changes.  If something changes,  they need to adapt and change and learn new lessons, which they don't want to do.

You're talking about me bro. 

[Mdot21]

The O-Line and quarterback positions were extremely weak. You work with what you have. Iowa had an immobile QB.

Your new QB from the portal is also extremely immobile. Was hoping the best for Cade at Iowa, always will root for the kid for helping turn it around in Ann Arbor in '21. But he's being put in a baaaaaad situation if Brain Ferentz is going to be his OC and Kirk won't make staff changes. Seems like a waste of a pretty decent QB addition via the portal without changing up the staff.

[Hawkinole]

Your new QB from the portal is also extremely immobile. Was hoping the best for Cade at Iowa, always will root for the kid for helping turn it around in Ann Arbor in '21. But he's being put in a baaaaaad situation if Brain Ferentz is going to be his OC and Kirk won't make staff changes. Seems like a waste of a pretty decent QB addition via the portal without changing up the staff.

My post was already long, but your thought was my next thought. You cannot station an immobile QB on almost every pass play in an area comprising a nonexistent pocket, or in a pocket that collapses in 3-seconds or less. The O-Coordinator has to develop schemes that move the QB around, and timing patters that leave the QB in less jeopardy, when he is immobile and the o-line is so weak as it has been the past 3-5 years. 

[LittlePig]

You're talking about me bro.

I am just 3-4 years away myself.  I am in a weird kind of limbo at work.  Too close to retirement to change departments or apply for a promotion.  Not quite enough money saved to retire today.   

But Kirk has plenty of money.  He must enjoy his job a lot more than I do.  Of course Kirk's sole mission now seems to be to save Brian's career.

[FearlessF]

I agree.  And he doesn't seem to care about anything else.

[MrNubbz]

You're talking about me bro.

Not really you work for your self and I'm guessin' you could fold up shop if you want to.now 20 yrs back that may have been the case

[MrNubbz]

But Kirk has plenty of money.  He must enjoy his job a lot more than I do.  Of course Kirk's sole mission now seems to be to save Brian's career.

Ya that didn't work to good for Joepa. And the only one gonna save sonny boy is divine intervention

[Hawkinole]

Ya that didn't work to good for Joepa. And the only one gonna save sonny boy is divine intervention

Sonny Boy would be lucky if he could land a job as an assistant at the University of Dubuque, or Loras College. I don't think he could because their offenses are almost certainly better than Sonny Boy's. 

[847badgerfan]

Not really you work for your self and I'm guessin' you could fold up shop if you want to.now 20 yrs back that may have been the case

I don't own that much of it anymore. Been selling down shares and slowing down me. The kids are mostly in charge now.

[FearlessF]

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.

[MrNubbz]

If I was Brian I wouldn't do anything stoopid like take a DNA test. And find out the guy who poured the driveway 40 yrs ago is Pops