2023 Iowa Season Thread

[Hawkinole]

Chryst's exit from Wisconsin had more to do with his vision for the program. He went an entire year without a recruiting department, didn't like recruiting, did not embrace the portal, and wanted nothing to do with NIL.

OC is the perfect job for him - so long as he doesn't have to recruit anything but QB's. Aside from that, I think he'd do well at Iowa, given how they recruit OL, TE and RB.

Think about PC and his offenses under Bert at UW. Pretty darn good if you ask me.

O-Line has been a strength at Iowa, but not in recent years. Iowa might have one All American on the O-Line some years (not in 2023) and a line that does not function as a unit, and has no other strong members. This has been an ongoing issue for about 5-seasons.

[LittlePig]

New rumor making the rounds but not sure if it's true:  .

Kirk Ferentz has hired Joe Philbin as the new OC at Iowa.  This has not been confirmed and may just be a rumor.

Philbin is the former head coach of the Miami Dolphins and former OC of the Green Bay Packers when Mike Sherman would call all the plays.

Before that he was the OL coach at Iowa under Ferentz.  Philbin and Kirk Ferentz actually go way back along with former Iowa OC Ken Okeefe, who all part of the old gang at Worcester Acacedemy.

Word is that Philbin hates recruiting so if he brought in he won't be spending much time recruiting.  Also he won't be the QB coach and he is already 62 years old.

[847badgerfan]

That's a lazy hire if true. Very PC-like move.

[FearlessF]

that's a Kirk hire, not from the interim AD

[Hawkinole]

Iowa needs a QBs coach. BF was supposedly QBs coach and OC. Joe Philbin will not be a capable QBs coach, any more than BF was a capable QBs coach.
The only way hiring Joe Philbin as Offensive Coordinator works out well for Iowa is to also make Philbin the O-Line coach, and either fire George Barnett, or move George Barnett to Analyst, and move Jon Budmayr from his Analyst/Special Assistant job, to QBs coach, or fire Budmayr and hire a QBs coach.
KF has a sense of loyalty; I doubt anyone else on the staff gets fired.

[Hawkinole]

Kirk Ferentz quashed talk about Scott Frost being a potential candidate for OC without even mentioning Frost, by name, today, by reference to results, and type of offense Frost ran. It's kind of damning.
KF says he has 4 people under consideration, two of the names were mentioned, Paul Chryst, and Joe Philbin, with admiration by KF. This is a great article. You can view the interview he had with the press on video or just read the article.
Iowa football's Kirk Ferentz zeroes in on next offensive coordinator (hawkcentral.com)
Iowa football's Kirk Ferentz zeroes in on next offensive coordinator (hawkcentral.com)

[FearlessF]

Frost was NEVER an option

[Hawkinole]

Well, at a press conference today, KF clarified his prior comments that seemed to take a jab at Scott Frost, and said he was not referencing anybody that's been a head coach in the Big Ten, but he was referencing someone who was an offensive coordinator at a Big Ten school, whose team threw the ball a lot, but the win total wasn't there. It could still be Nebraska, but I am not sure.

[LittlePig]

Well some coaching updates.

DC Phil Parker was offered the DC job at Bama for $2.1M,  but Iowa countered and offered him $1.9M,  so Parker decided to stay at Iowa.

Assistant DC Seth Wallace has been promoted to Assistant Head Coach and his pay was bumped up to$1.0M

WR coach Kelton Copeland has been let go after 7 years on the Iowa staff.

No news yet for OC.  Paul Chryst officially turned it down.  Word is Joe Philbin is not happening either.  I guess Kirk's next move is to reach out to his contacts in the NFL.

There is a rumor that Lavar Woods has an offer somewhere.

[847badgerfan]

I still think Buds would be a good OC/QB coach there.

[847badgerfan]

Closing this in favor of the new 2024 thread.