In memoriam of Brian Ferentz as Iowa's OC
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Higher education moves at a slow pace. It is common to place a person in an interim role before selecting a committee. The interim role gives Barbara Wilson the ability to see how Goetz performs in the role. Often, universities place people in interim roles for years and then promote them to the role without a search. They use the rationale that the person has been doing the job for xx number of years, so there is no reason to do a search. Additionally, Barta left at the start of the academic year, which for people from academics is busy.
Here I thought that **** university stumbled into something good but they are going to find a way to **** it up and I am here for it.
Of course they're going to go through a formal search, not a surprise. Assuming she wants to be considered I'd assume she'll be at the top of the list of candidates for the permanent gig.
I don’t think the U if I is any more bureaucratic than any other public university if that’s what you’re asking. I made a general statement on the ridiculousness of this whole charade.
At this level the Firm is most likely a retained search firm. Which means Iowa will pay several hundred thousand (minimum) even if they hire Goetz as full time AD. Yet another waste of money by TOE. Unless Kirk threw a tantrum and she will not get the job.
In Brian's defense... NOBODY in the Big 10 West averages over 25 points per game. Even if you add in non con games.
https://bigten.org/stats.aspx?path=football&year=2023&conf=true
Oh yeah, Here is another fun TOE fact. For the season Iowa generated 2968 yards of offense and punted for 3803 yards. In conference play only they generated 2062 yards of offense and punted for 3029 yards.
What's the point of having Beth be interim and then doing a search? She's got the support of the coaches and looks to be a good fit. Why waste the money?
Most, if not all public universities are going to go through a formal, public search process for an AD. Not saying it isn't a waste of time or money, but it's not unique to Iowa.
Didn't say it wasn't dumb. Just that ISU and probably every other P5 university would do the same thing.
My question is why wasnt this done a long time ago. Barta has been gone quite a while, you have someone in place that is probably the top candidate. So if it is just a formality or not, why wasnt this committee established as soon as Barta was on the way out.
Everyone has expected them to take the interim label off Goetz for a while, but now they set up a committee months late to look for someone else?
Iowa is such a cluster **** when it comes to management.
Maybe it's all just a formality, university knows it wants BG as the AD, has assurances that BG wants the gig, so this is just about going through the bureaucratic motions and the timing is essentially meaningless.
I really hope KF gets his wish and they don’t hire Goetz…. and proceed to bring back BF!
