Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz (Kirk's back in the fight, boyz!!)

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I love Kirk but no self respecting OC with other good options will take this job because coordinating offense for KF is where careers go to die. So we are stuck with promoting someone with no play calling experience (Lavar- who would be an idiot to take the job) or getting a Polosek type (OC at a lower level program who would take the promotion and be a yes man to KF). It’s done. I’m ready. Goodbye KF.
This is too much. I was going to explain why, but I've decided to masturbate in the shower instead.
 

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With dougs breaking news the site should be opened back up. Be nice to get some new blood up in here
Speaking of blood, this blood is on your hands

Dumbest call I've ever seen. I traveled all the way from AZ to see my first Hawkeye game, and I got that.

Share my misery.

 

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This is too much. I was going to explain why, but I've decided to masturbate in the shower instead.
Good call. Maybe this will help you cum.

Iowa under KF doesn’t run RPOs and appears to be against designed QB runs and perhaps even QBs who can run based on their past recruiting and comments. KF is either going to all of a sudden abandon what he believes in at nearly 70 years of age or he’s going to hire someone with the same beliefs as him and someone who isnt going to significantly challenge the status quo.
 

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Her action did all the speaking necessary. Her press release said everything she was going to say, and she made herself available to avoid the appearance of sniping Brian while hiding in her office. She righted Gary's wrong and handed the reins back to the head coach.
 

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This thread and everything was a fun distraction for the first 24 hours, but now today 48 hours later it just sucks. I'm not excited for a new OC and especially not for the rest of the season.

Today was sad to witness, right or wrong or by his own creation, a great man and great coach be completely humiliated by time and circumstance as he nears the end of his career and end of his life.

He's going out on the sourest of notes and 25 years as a head coach at the University of Iowa is now tarnished in his mind because of everything leading up to today.

I love Kirk. He's been fantastic for Iowa. I wanted to see him leave being figuratively (or literally) carried out on the shoulders of his players and spend the next 20 years cutting to a shot of him in the premium seating press box at Kinnick getting standing ovations.

His career has been a giant chunk of our collective lives. 44 years old now, was a teenager when he started. He's roughly my Dad's age and likely close to the age of many of your father's on here.

5 Top 10 finishes. 10 times ranked in the Top 25. 21 bowl games. Rose Bowl. Orange Bowl x2. Heisman runner up. Undefeated season, inches from the College Football Playoff, a freight train of NFL players, countless memorable upset wins of Top 5 teams and millions donated to the Iowa Children's Hospital.

It's downright sad how this is ending and he deserved better from himself and everyone else. I take zero joy in any of this.
 

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I’m holding out hope it’s not Kirk and Phil’s ending. With the right OC they can still be a giant pain in the ass for anyone in the new B10
I would love absolutely nothing more than for him to figure out a way to work through this, make a great OC hire and have 3-4 more years and go out the right way.
 

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That, although I was sort of thinking of William of Adelin. He died, there was no successor, anarchy.
 

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There’s probably a better fuckhead royal I can’t think of.
 

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It sucks that they wasted 10+ years and 6+ at a coordinator position trying to develop and exceute a succession plan for the wrong successor.
It’s been said repeatedly, but this was the most likely outcome the moment Kirk decided Brian should be OC. Barta didn’t have the juice to tell him no, and unless the offense got so good succession was undeniable, this was going to be the outcome.

But we’re in the earliest stages of the post-Kirk era now. Goetz appears immensely competent. She’s handled a bad situation well. There are no good choices available. The calendar dictates action, but throwing Brian out isn’t reasonable, either. I have sufficient faith she can identify the right way to hire the next head coach, today or a feed years from now.
 

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I would love absolutely nothing more than for him to figure out a way to work through this, make a great OC hire and have 3-4 more years and go out the right way.
I want that more than anything, but after the firing of his son, NIL, conference realignment, and being called a racist by former players, it would surprise the hell out of me if he continues. That's a prideful, stubborn SOB.

But if he still has it in him, I want one more Kirk reboot. Kirk 5.0
 

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This isn’t unprecedented at Iowa. I don’t think Kirk’s legacy will be tarnished. Just as Hayden’s wasn’t despite shitting away a few seasons with some of the best players in his tenure at the end, followed by a total collapse after they graduated.
 

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This isn’t unprecedented at Iowa. I don’t think Kirk’s legacy will be tarnished. Just as Hayden’s wasn’t despite shitting away a few seasons with some of the best players in his tenure at the end, followed by a total collapse after they graduated.
Kirk’s legacy is only tarnished if he’s a shit after he leaves.
 

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KF is either going to all of a sudden abandon what he believes in at nearly 70 years of age or he’s going to hire someone with the same beliefs as him and someone who isnt going to significantly challenge the status quo.
is there any such person left alive?
 

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I suspect there’s a failed ex-Colorado State coordinator who fits the bill almost perfectly.
 

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It's wild that this was Brian's first Power 5 game and second game overall as OC.....

44 points and 497 yards of offense. 333 yards and 5 TD's passing. 164 yards and 1 TD rushing. 67% completion percentage. 7/15 on 3rd downs. Incredible, exciting game with the ball being thrown all over the field. What in the fuck happened and how did it come to this.


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Brian's last game before being fired.

12 points. 127 yards offense. 116 yards passing. 11 yards rushing. 3 turnovers. 35.7% completion. 0.4 yards per carry. 4/15 on third down.

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That 44 point game was after the travesty of 2016 and years of Greg Davis. To suddenly see Iowa in one of the more exciting games putting up that many points, nearly 500 yards of offense, 5 passing TD's and more.

In fairness to everyone, it was hard to not be excited at that point about the future of the Iowa offense.
 

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It's wild that this was Brian's first Power 5 game and second game overall as OC.....

44 points and 497 yards of offense. 333 yards and 5 TD's passing. 164 yards and 1 TD rushing. 67% completion percentage. 7/15 on 3rd downs. Incredible, exciting game with the ball being thrown all over the field. What in the fuck happened and how did it come to this.


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KOK left. I'm dead serious. Break the dates out.
 

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KOK left. I'm dead serious. Break the dates out.
He was still there for 2021, which wasn't great at all, but I think it was the triple whammy of Doyle being fired and the OL going to shit in 2021, KOK retiring and Spencer Penus being the worst QB in college football. 2022 was a disaster and now 2023 was the true masterpiece of awful offense that transcends QB's. The system is so bad that it makes everyone terrible.
 

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IDK what should have been done, but they needed a real QB coach and someone who could design/teach the passing game. KOK was always a bandaid and he didn’t recruit one QB worth a shit during his second stint.
 
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