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Topic: 2023 Iowa Season Thread

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #168 on: February 09, 2023, 06:47:22 PM »
that contract with Brian is a JOKE. His salary is only cut $50k? He only has to score 25 ppg to keep his job? LOL. Kirk should be fired just for that. Iowa AD really has no balls and Kirk really does run that university. Holy crap.

Iowa faithful deserves better. Brian should've been out on his ass day after the season was over. 

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #169 on: February 10, 2023, 12:30:18 AM »
Are most Iowa fans also Kubbs fans?

Yes, but I am not a Cubs fan. Wrigley Field is a lousy venue for college football. Northwestern played a game there a decade ago, and it was concluded that only one endzone could be used for an offense to drive to because the other was partially encroached by the outfield brick fence, and in modern football that is dangerous to players. Wrigley Field is the dumbest venue in college football. Northwestern is building a new stadium. Does scheduling the game at Wrigley Field mean Dyche Stadium is already being closed?

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #170 on: February 10, 2023, 12:38:57 AM »
Iowa faithful deserves better. Brian should've been out on his ass day after the season was over.
Brian should be making $5,000 coaching HS football, or advancing to D-III to test out his idiotic failed offense schemes for immobile QBs, and for mobile QBs who he regards as immobile, as in the Music City Bowl, after the 1st drive. I don't want to refer to him as an idiot because he might be good at something, like truck driving, or O-Line coaching, but he knows so little about scheming an offense for the players he has on the field, and even less about QB coaching. His sole job qualification is that his dad his head coach.

Brian Ferentz would be much better at being the guy who greets you on his bicycle on Mackinac Island and offers to transport your luggage to your hotel. Those guys are incredibly talented and deserving of every dollar they earn.

Meanwhile Brian is earning $850,000, and deserving of less than $30,000. He is overpaid at least $820,000. Reeediculous!
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #171 on: February 10, 2023, 06:55:41 AM »
Didn't Iowa win the Big Ten West just 14 months ago?
A decade of Victory over Penn State.

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #172 on: February 10, 2023, 10:57:22 AM »
Didn't Iowa win the Big Ten West just 14 months ago?
By default.
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #173 on: February 10, 2023, 04:36:07 PM »
Didn't Iowa win the Big Ten West just 14 months ago?
that's Kirk's line
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #174 on: February 12, 2023, 10:23:32 AM »
Joel Klatt joined the chorus of those who weighed in on the move by Iowa to amend offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz’ contract.

The expectation is for Iowa to win 7 games and average 25 points per game for the 2023 season.

Klatt, the FOX Sports analyst, began his comments about Iowa this way: “I don’t even know where to begin. Brian Ferentz gets a weirdly-worded contract. How do we do this? What do we even say about this?”

Klatt admitted that he didn’t think Brian Ferentz would be the OC at Iowa in 2023.

“I like Brian, I really like Kirk (Ferentz), you can’t argue with what Kirk has done,” Klatt said. “… I’ve never seen anything like this, this is crazy, I’m sorry. I know (Athletics Director) Gary Barta, Gary Barta’s really good.”

The father-son dynamic is the only way Brian Ferentz could keep his job, and get these “weird” parameters, Klatt said.

“Now Brian Ferentz is a jug of milk in the refrigerator,” Klatt said. “What is happening right now?”

The comments begin at about 18:35:


https://saturdaytradition.com/iowa-football/joel-klatt-reacts-to-brian-ferentz-amended-contract-i-dont-even-know-where-to-begin/?fbclid=IwAR20GhIfuq500HlXjS6v8yVW-INIkACfKS8p3m3C-p5NKM6PwLyGAxUUfPo
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #175 on: February 13, 2023, 05:51:28 PM »
ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg believes that the Big Ten coaching carousel should be quieter this next offseason but did place Kirk Ferentz on retirement watch. He was the only coach in the conference listed. The foundation for his thoughts is the elephant in the room that is the offensive coordinator situation with Brian Ferentz.

Ferentz is signed through 2029 and essentially will determine when he wants to hang it up. He turns 68 in August but remains in good health and could coach several more seasons. But the stress of last season, especially around a struggling offense coordinated by his son, Brian, could take a toll as he evaluates how much longer he wants to coach. – Rittenberg, ESPN

Another item to put in the back of your brain is the ever-changing landscape of college football and the shuffling of conferences. At 68 years old does Kirk want to go through the NIL deals, the transfer portal, and the constant changing for that many more years when they job becomes even more demanding?
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #176 on: February 14, 2023, 01:51:42 PM »
I think Kirk should pull a Bo Ryan and resign a few games into the year, so that Brian can be named head coach.  Then he can just take over going forward.

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #177 on: February 14, 2023, 02:21:27 PM »
I think Kirk should pull a Bo Ryan and resign a few games into the year, so that Brian can be named head coach.  Then he can just take over going forward.
Yeah it kind of has that feel doesn't it.  I don't know if it means Kirk stepping down before this fall, or in the middle of the 2023 season or right after 2023,  but one thing is for sure.  Kirk does not want to go the trouble of breaking in a new OC, which tells me has 1 or at most 2 seasons left.

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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #178 on: February 14, 2023, 04:19:10 PM »
Kirk can hire Paul Chryst. He was great as an OC/QB, when he was just an OC/QB coach.
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #179 on: February 14, 2023, 05:56:14 PM »
Kirk can hire almost anyone else and upgrade

even Scott Frost

but, he won't
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #180 on: February 27, 2023, 11:37:31 AM »
The old man on the left is a friend of mine that grew up in Iowa City. Huge Hawkeye fan.
Graduated from U of I in the mid 80's.  Was at the 1985 Michigan game with me.

the young man on the right at the piano is his son, Ben.


https://youtu.be/z82O2MCLjJ0
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Re: 2023 Iowa Offseason Thread
« Reply #181 on: February 27, 2023, 12:00:41 PM »
Piano looks to be on the right but what do i know. You should have made a cameo as a roady or something
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