Even if his name were Brian Smith, that would have been a good hire. An up and coming NFL assistant coach coming back to his alma mater to coach his former position. In fact the only negative comments I've seen about the hire stem from the last name he has.
Rhoads> Ferentz???
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Even if his name were Brian Smith, that would have been a good hire. An up and coming NFL assistant coach coming back to his alma mater to coach his former position. In fact the only negative comments I've seen about the hire stem from the last name he has.
So players can lose the ability to play but coaches can't lose the ability to coach?
bad luck, poor quarterback play, and poor recruiting/player retention.
Ferentz has always had his flaws and will continue to have them. He's always been a mediocre gameday coach. He's not as horrible at it as some fans make him out to be but he's far from great at it. His strengths are teaching football and matching players to his system.
So you admit he is a mediocre (at best) gameday coach and recently has been poor at recruiting/player retention but he's a good coach? hmmmm
Even the son-in-law? Too bad I don't know the last names of all of the relatives, friends, neighbors, section 8 landlords, etc. If only a local newspaper could look into all of the AD hires since he's been coach.
apples and oranges
Peyton Manning will retire one of these years not because he's become dumber or "the game has past him by" but because his body will no longer be able to perform the way he needs it to.
I could give a **** less who he hires to admin positions. If he wants to hire Mary as his secretary, have at it.
You would think the $4 million would be enough to support them all without giving them all jobs too.
Ok so if he recently hasn't been a good recruiter or good at player retention and is not a good gameday coach what makes him a good college football coach?
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You forgot to add the part about how he only got his NFL assistant job due to his last name.
recruiting has a lot of luck involved unless you're at a program that can stockpile 4-5 star players to cover up for the misses. He hasn't been poor at recruiting, it's not like Iowa hasn't had any draft prospects. Too many misses on the d-line and a miss at quarterback and you get what transpired in 2011 and 2012. ISU of all fanbases should know how poor QB play can submarine an otherwise good team.
Recruiting is luck? And I'm sure as an Iowa fan you're happy he's not winning on the field but putting players in the NFL.
And yes poor QB play can submarine a team but I don't remember when CPR had a QB throw for 3,000 yds and 25 TDs as a junior and go 7-5, then return that same QB for his senior season and go 4-8.
lol yes recruiting involves a lot of luck. You think CPR would bother to oversign if there wasn't any luck in recruiting?
He didn't have Mcnutt in 2012 and the offense didn't suit his strengths as well. Make no mistake, he was just as terrible in 2011 as he was in 2012. He just had the good fortune of having a receiver who could make up for a lot of mistakes and playing against some terrible defenses. Teams were also able to get a seasons worth of gamefilm on him. They blitzed him more, took away his primary target. This resulted in him checking the ball down because he wasn't good enough to read through his progression.
I'm guessing not having any good WRs and not preparing for teams to blitz isn't KFs fault?
His gameday coaching is much worse than his recruiting. MANY times recently when playing Iowa I have rejoiced at Kirk's decisions and been right most of the time with him being wrong. Can't remember the game but there was a 4th and short against ISU recently where he basically lost any chance of a win by making a silly call to punt when they'd been picking up that yardage all game. He's lost any sort of killer instinct on the offensive side of the ball.
It wasn't that they didn't prepare for blitzes. Vandenberg simply couldn't handle the blitz. He couldn't do it against Ohio State as a freshman (they didn't ramp up the pressure until OT, and when they did he looked totally helpless), he couldn't do it against Minnesota the following week (they blitzed the **** out of him). And he couldn't do it in his two years as a starter. You've either got that poise under pressure, or you don't.
That was the 2011 game. I was there and also knew the game was over as soon as he elected to kick the field goal. That was in the final overtime of a game in which the defense had shown absolutely no signs of stopping Steele, and sure enough, he took ISU down the field and White scored the winning TD.