Well, maybe Kirk can score with a good WR coach. So far, Iowa has had several straight years with a lousy O-Line, lousy receiving corps, lousy quarterbacking, and mediocre running game.
Marvin McNutt, a former WR at Iowa and a good one, is a commentator on a show in Eastern Iowa on KCRG 9.2 called "On Iowa Live." McNutt is coaching WRs at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. He has expressed interest in the WR job, and if John Budmayr were moved into the WR coach job, he said tonight he would also have an interest in the analyst job, and he has expressed these interests to Kirk Ferentz.
McNutt is charismatic, and an entertaining part of the "On Iowa Live" show which is mostly a weekly one-hour synopsis in the development of Iowa sports for the past week, but which usually opens up with commentary about football. The next part of the show this time of the year features Hannah Stuelke's mom, and she is entertaining as a former WBB player with a kid on the Iowa WBB team.
The passing game at Coe was much more competent in 2023 than at Iowa.
2023 Football Cumulative Statistics - Coe College (kohawkathletics.com) I would like to see Marvin McNutt on the Iowa staff.
I am amazed people like Kenyon Murray, and Marvin McNutt, come from other states, get an athletic scholarship at Iowa, and remain in Iowa. I am here because I grew up here. It doesn't seem like a destination state.