And so it begins
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Simple for MSU its a new coaching staff, they want to get off on a good foot, if they lose to EIU, after their win over their instate rival will not carry as much weight after they have lost to Rutgers and then to EIU.
For EIU, their season is already a train wreck, this is an opportunity to start turning it around, and stop the bleeding, its either that or go into the tank.
So its a critical game for both teams.
In the big picture this isn't a big game for Iowa. They'll win 2-3 games this year I'm sure. The fans that are done with Ferentz aren't jumping back on board if they beat Rocky Lombardi
Reading message boards prove nothing, its too small of a sample size of a fan base. If the EIU fan base has any say, Freerents will be at EIU until he is ready to leave. For what I have read and heard, he is very much liked by the large donor group that support their atheletic programs. Plus those donations to the childrens hospital have bought loyalty from the average fan, a hell of a lot more than if he had given it to the government in taxes.
No new president of any university is going to want to go to war with a popular football coach when he is new on the job. Its a political position and it would not be worth to get off on the wrong foot with the fan base and people that give to the university.
Ferentz will never get fired. The outcome of the game Saturday means very little in the big picture
Kirk has too big of ego to step down without getting paid
Kirk will die on Kinnick of natural causes before he retires.
I don't think Barta has the balls to fire him. KF has been with that program as an assistant or head coach forever. I think their fans get a tiny woody knowing they've only had 2 coaches since 1978/79 How would you like to be the AD that fires him and has to do a search for a new coach...don't eff it up. You've only needed 2 in the last 40 years. No pressure.
It won't be Barta. The FNG will sit down with Kkkirk and say, sorry but this is coming from the top. We either work out an acceptable buyout or I'll have to fire you for cause.
Brian Ferentz has bowel movements 5X the size of those man boobs. Just ask the U of I plumbing dept. about that.
New president oftentimes means new AD.
New AD oftentimes means new head coach.
Same deal in any organization -- you want "your guys," not the ones you inherited. New NFL GM oftentimes means a new head coach and staff and a new staff oftentimes means a new starting quarterback.
I think you are generally right about all of the above, but it would not surprise me if there are some elements of the above at play, too.
How many presidents have come and gone over in Iowa City, and none of what you are saying has happened? At least 3 in the past 20 years. The AD left on his own accord.
Hell the last thing any ISU fan should want is change, they are screwing things up very nicely, let them bury themselves.
Don’t you judge the hawks. Perfectly normal to cope like that.