I'd take either ... but I want Beth to offer Lanning.
He's more likable than KF, he's young and he's a winner.
Name KF's replacement ...
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He's more likable than KF, he's young and he's a winner.
Finally. Someone who's thinking big. I'm so tired of the "small time" group think.
Seth Wallace will be the next Head Coach, I am 100% sure of that as long as Beth is the AD.
Honest question here....How many head coaches of the teams in the CFP poll last week were promoted from within?
-Wallace is a good Xs and Os man, but he's never (to my knowledge) raised large sums of $$$ from donors, closed the deal for 5* recruits, had to oversee any unit but the LBs, been the face of any unit or program but the LBs (and that unit is pretty weak at the moment)
-What would his offensive philosophy be? Same as KFs?
-Didn't he also have some negative vibes going around the time of Doyle and the unhappy black players?
-He's only coached at Coe, Lake Forest, Valdosta State and Iowa. This would prepare him to do better than KF at elevating Iowa into a program competing for CFP berths each year?
-I think it could set the program back b/c of negative recruiting against him, lack of success in luring top shelf talent to Iowa, lack of name recognition. Iowa needs to be able to sell a little 'sizzle' w/ the steak on the next hire to be Head Hawk.
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Why didn't Beth promote Gatens as MBB coach after Fran?
Swarm is managed from outside the program, and we do have revenue sharing on the horizon, besides how much money do you think Kirk actually goes out and gets from donors?
Iowa rarely gets the 5* players to begin with and we are a developmental program anyways. Promoting from within basically assures we keep the current assistants who all understand the Iowa way of doing things.
Seth will definitely be the next HC.
I'm thinking the head coaches talk to donors frequently regarding funding for other aspects of their programs, not just $ for NIL. Any proposed building initiatives would surely be helped by the coaches getting involved w/ donors in addition to BG and others.
Would you agree that Iowa needs to up it's talent on offense? Are we going to get higher skilled players for that unit than we have now? Why would any highly talented skill players sign up for Seth Wallace as Head Coach when he has no experience running anything on offense. He should have something to sell to recruits on that side of the ball. Opposing coaches would love to recruit against a guy w/ no head or coordinator experience who would be calling the shots for the whole program.
I asked how many of the CFP programs in the recent poll promoted their guy from within? You didn't answer, so I will.
5 of the 25 in the poll promoted from within.
- Ohio State - Day had experience at Florida, OC at Boston College and Temple, QB coach for the Eagles and 49ers prior to coming to OSU to be co-OC and QB coach.
- Notre Dame - Freeman had experience at tOSU, Purdue as co-DC / LB coach, Cincy DC / LB coach, and DC / LB at ND before being promoted
- Utah - Whittingham gained experience at BYU, Idaho DC before coming to Utah and was DC at Utah for 10 years before promotion to head coach
- Georgia Tech - Key rec'd experience at UCF for 10 years as TE, Special teams Coord., Recruiting coord., OL, OC and 3 yrs Asst Hd Coach;--OL coach at Alabama; --Asst Hd Coach, OL, Run game coord at GT before being named interim coach.
- Michigan - Moore had experience at Louisville, --Asst Hd Coach / Recruit coord. at Central Mich --and coached the OL and was OC 3 years in Ann Arbor before being tabbed as head man. (btw, the Maize and blue haven't really upheld their recent success in Moore's 2nd year this season)
Ohio State, ND, and Michigan are blue bloods. Easier for them to have success w/ less experienced guys, BUT all 5 had experience at other P2 programs, many as coordinators. Wallace hasn't even been a coordinator and the LB group is alot weaker today.
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You guys are exhausting. First off, Kirk isn’t going anywhere right now ( THANKS GOD). Second, we are 3 plays away from literally being 9-0, the guy is one of the best to coach football and none of you can appreciate it. Good grief!
This is true and I agree, however a good deal of Ferentz Fatigue lingers from the Brian as OC years and not changing that debacle on his own. We were horrid on offense and it was BAU for Bri and Kirk. I don’t know if his eventual replacement will bring the program to new heights or turn us in to, gulp, Nebraska. Glad I am only along for the ride….
Mary, you're the wife most men want. One who thinks of their husband as GOD.
Players are bought nowadays, do you belong to SWARM? If not, you should because money talks louder than whoever the HC is.
Don't know how to break it to you but collectives are done under NIL GO
Actually collectives become more important, whereas revenue sharing is good, collectives can target much needed players. Everyone will share in the revenue sharing but collectives will be the icing on the cake.
I know you think that is an argument for keeping Captain Fairyntz ... but it's actually the opposite.
Just wanted to share the following.
Curt Cignetti was 62 years old when Indiana hired him. He had been a successful HC at IUP, Elon and James Madison. Previously he was a position coach (not a coordinator) for 27 years at Pittsburg (Georgia), Davidson, Rice, Temple, Pitt, NC State and Alabama. He was 119-35 as a HC, but his playoff record at those schools was 10-8. He now makes $11.6 million.
If anyone saw this as an unbelievably great hire that would turn a sow's ear into a silk purse, please raise your hand.
My point:
Curt Cignetti was 62 years old when Indiana hired him. He had been a successful HC at IUP, Elon and James Madison. Previously he was a position coach (not a coordinator) for 27 years at Pittsburg (Georgia), Davidson, Rice, Temple, Pitt, NC State and Alabama. He was 119-35 as a HC, but his playoff record at those schools was 10-8. He now makes $11.6 million.
If anyone saw this as an unbelievably great hire that would turn a sow's ear into a silk purse, please raise your hand.
My point:
