Change the batteries in your sarcasm detector
Ferentz hasnt decided to return next year?
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Wow, harsh considering that most people think being a very good to great head coach is organizational skill, hiring and managing a great staff, being great at handling players, not the X's and O's which is important. Also being a great recruiter and managing players and boosting players abilities.
Lester seems to really be a player's coach from what I have read.
The board and boosters also do not know jack **** about zone blocking schemes
handled basketball perfectly
KF should had called it quits 10 years ago. Now it's just a joke, never going to get better, probably worse like the Fry latter years.
Easy schedule, Big 10 west, the conference's little favorite, and a tolerant fan base, has allowed him to hang around.
But with Cig doing more in two years than KF has in 27, this may have ended the gravy train.
Like it matters ... the portal means $$$$ and Iowa has none.
Good point ... but this will end badly. Just call it quits KF, go coach Oline with your stupid kid wherever that lout is.
and Cig accomplished more in 2 years! at F ing Indiana
Indiana ! won a Rose Bowl KF and Fry couldn't do that in 6 decades of coaching at Iowa
all it took was 40 million from cuban last year and 60 million this year.. get ******* real
Easthawk is either Margaret , Connor or possibly Brian
Beth will eventually make the call with input from numerous sources which would seem pretty normal. After cleaning up Iowa men's basketball program I think she has earned the respect of many. Kirk will have input but it is not his call. After all he wanted Brian. The big donors, the Prez, etc., will all have input but their needs to be a chokepoint of responsibility and that will be (should be) Beth. Timing, how things are communicated, etc., are pretty important relative to sending the right messages to players IN the program and those being recruited. I am hopeful KF does not make that uncomfortable. Need a clean, supportive transition whenever that is.
I give Beth credit for landing Ben, but it certainly doesn't mean it was a difficult hire. Growing up a Hawkeye fan and coaching just 90 minutes away at Drake Certainly gave her an edge.
Football is going to be tougher. We've seen some of head coaching busts in the last handful of years including places like Michigan and Michigan State - it's hard to know what you are getting.
Lester and Wallace probably have a leg up.
Football is going to be tougher. We've seen some of head coaching busts in the last handful of years including places like Michigan and Michigan State - it's hard to know what you are getting.
Lester and Wallace probably have a leg up.
lol, Beth doesn’t know anything bout football. The search firm and The board will make the hire nd Beth will rubber stamp it.
This post along with the penultimate and antepenultimate posts make a lot of sense. Especially the last sentence about the search firm and the board and Beth rubber stamping it.
The more I keep cogitating about this situation, the more I believe it will be an "insider," (i.e., Seth Walllace or Tim Lester) for lack of better phraseology. I mean, there has to be a reason that Lavar Woods left for a lateral move to one of our biggest competitors.
somehow, I just have a hard time seeing them bring in some outsider up-and-comer from the Group of 5 and being introduced to the "old guard" and making it work out.
But having said all of that, replacing a head coach in major college football is the definition of a crapshoot.
She will eventually make the call with the proper input from others. She knows a hell of a lot more about making decisions at work and in life than you do.
We finished ranked 17th last year, won bowl game, went 9-4 with a fairly difficult schedule. The offense has shown immense signs of improvement over the last 2 seasons. Ferentz isn't going anywhere, and he'll coach as long as he wants unless he has back to back seasons of 7 wins or less. The odds of that happening, historically, are low.
The board, at any university, hires an AD for 4 reasons.
1. Manage the Athletic Department Budget
2. Fundraise via donors
3. Negotiate on Iowa’s behalf in B1G Conference Meetings/Decisions
4. Hire Coaches
The board hired Beth specifically to make decisions like this one. This idea that some people on this message board have that the board will not allow the employee they have specifically hired for this process to make this decision is completely non sensical.
Will she have to get it approved? Sure. But she wouldn’t be very good at her job if she couldn’t sell the board on her hire would she?
The AD and the football coach are usually tied at the hip. If one goes they both go. Look at the Wisconsin AD jumping ship a couple days ago. Look at the LSU AD going down with Brian Kelly.
Do you really think Beth would even take this job if the board was like, “When we hire a new coach, we’re gonna put you on the sideline and make the decision ourselves. And if they fail we’ll use you as a scape goat and fire you too.”
Dumb. Just dumb.
She doesn’t know zone blocking scheme from potato salad. She’s there to get coffee and rubber stamp the board and the search firm’s recommendation. Lol
100% chance that Kirk will coach at Iowa until he decides to retire. He's also going to coach some very good teams in the next few years. Youngsters like playing for the guy.
I thought Fickell to Wisconsin was a fantastic hire for them. I am glad to be 75% so far wrong. Most places would have canned him after last year even though they had an insane schedule...
I really have not enough info yet to tell for sure. people just hated Brian, hated on brian. I liked him. so far so good on lester. only like two yrs in or three I guess.
You still here pretending to be an Iowa fan? Give it up.
True. I know it turned out great with KF but without those first few years of being patient we could have really looked back on things differently missing on Stoops. Who also bled black and gold and would have jumped at the chance without Bowlsby and his 'committee.'
How did Beth get by without having that 'committee' and all of the hoops to jump through?
You can also point at the Tom Davis situation. Sure it's great to be the 'nice guy' and let him finish out his last year as a lame duck coach. But the good Dr would have survived just fine with his buy out and getting paid to sit for a year.
I would say so far she appears to be able to AD circles around her male predecessors BB & GB.