New OC

[CleteyColgate]

I don’t want Lester as QB coach. I want Johns as QBs/OC and some young guy who can lie and sell WR recruits on Iowa. Copeland was way too honest with these kids.

Copeland literally said ***publicly*** that recruiting WRs to Iowa is hard.

 

[CurdMan]

Copeland literally said ***publicly*** that recruiting WRs to Iowa is hard.

That’s exactly my point. How was he ever going to recruit anyone worth a damn when he was crying in public about how bad Iowa WRs have it?

 

[CleteyColgate]

That’s exactly my point. How was he ever going to recruit anyone worth a damn when he was crying in public about how bad Iowa WRs have it?

I'm validating the point

 

[CleteyColgate]

I don't believe Doug knows shit

 

[Nigeria]

I don't believe Doug knows shit

 

[BBK]

Kevin Johns will be officially announced as our offensive coordinator tomorrow, likely in the afternoon.

The nightmare is almost over fellas.

OhFFSman

 

[Geese]

I don't believe Doug knows shit

Doug has stated this many times

 

[CamelTones]

I’ll take Lester if Bud GTFO

Good news is Blair is making it sound like Kirk wants Bud to be the WR coach.

It’s probably time for Kirk to hang it up.

 

[Hawkstrat]

NIL guy is making it clear that this is just his guess, but he is thinking Kirk goes with Lester due to head coaching experience. Doesn't think it's likely that both get added to the staff, as Kirk really likes Budmayr.

Nice morning update.

 

[CleteyColgate]

Bud has never been a WR coach. Lester hasn't either. Lester, Bud and Johns have all coached quarterbacks. Johns has coached WRs. Should be interesting.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

NIL guy is making it clear that this is just his guess, but he is thinking Kirk goes with Lester due to head coaching experience. Doesn't think it's likely that both get added to the staff, as Kirk really likes Budmayr.

Nice morning update.

Can't he do whatever role he did last year - worthless analyst?

 

[Alan Lomax]

Good news is Blair is making it sound like Kirk wants Bud to be the WR coach.

It’s probably time for Kirk to hang it up.

That’s what all angst about this decision comes down to.

 

[Debit One]

NIL guy is making it clear that this is just his guess, but he is thinking Kirk goes with Lester due to head coaching experience. Doesn't think it's likely that both get added to the staff, as Kirk really likes Budmayr.

Nice morning update.

I'll need someone to explain to me why this matters.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

If there’s one thing Iowa needs, it’s more white guys on staff

 

[Alan Lomax]

I'll need someone to explain to me why this matters.

Maybe the nil guy also wants to annoy us with bad reasons Kirk does things?

 

[HerkyHopeful]

I was hoping Jim Leonard would get a job and bring Budmayr with him, but he's still working as an analyst too.

 

[BBK]

NIL guy is making it clear that this is just his guess, but he is thinking Kirk goes with Lester due to head coaching experience. Doesn't think it's likely that both get added to the staff, as Kirk really likes Budmayr.

Nice morning update.

I've already told my people it's going to be Johns. I'll have a bunch of upset geezers if I'm wrong

 

[CamelTones]

This could end up being a good hire but….

This is a horrible hire after a 3 month search. So Kirks last 3 OCs have been Greg Davis who no one was going to hire as an OC. Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz who no one was going to hire as an OC. And Tim Lester who maybe Troy was going to hire as an OC but that’s it.

I can’t believe Iowas offense has been dog shit.

 

[CleteyColgate]

This could end up being a good hire but….

This is a horrible hire after a 3 month search. So Kirks last 3 OCs have been Greg Davis who no one was going to hire as an OC. Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz who no one was going to hire as an OC. And Tim Lester who maybe Troy was going to hire as an OC but that’s it.

I can’t believe Iowas offense has been dog shit.

Both are way better and more qualified than Brian, but yeah

 

[gable_guy]

I'll need someone to explain to me why this matters.

Maybe Kirk feels the need to hire his successor?

 

[Alan Lomax]

This could end up being a good hire but….

This is a horrible hire after a 3 month search. So Kirks last 3 OCs have been Greg Davis who no one was going to hire as an OC. Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz who no one was going to hire as an OC. And Tim Lester who maybe Troy was going to hire as an OC but that’s it.

I can’t believe Iowas offense has been dog shit.

It’s a real chicken and egg situation we got here.

 

[BBK]

Tim Lester sounds like a guy from the Pedo thread

 

[gable_guy]

It’s a real chicken and egg situation we got here.

Except nobody came

 

[Debit One]

Tim Lester sounds like a guy from the Pedo thread

 

[CleteyColgate]

At the end of the day, Kirk doesn’t believe a top offense lends to complementary football.

 

[CamelTones]

I'll need someone to explain to me why this matters.

Apparently Kirk views it as a guy that’s been a ‘leader’ and can help that side of the ball.

It’s dumb as fuck. The next 7 months are going to be brutal from an offensive recruiting standpoint.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

This could end up being a good hire but….

This is a horrible hire after a 3 month search. So Kirks last 3 OCs have been Greg Davis who no one was going to hire as an OC. Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz who no one was going to hire as an OC. And Tim Lester who maybe Troy was going to hire as an OC but that’s it.

I can’t believe Iowas offense has been dog shit.

The timeline is insult to injury. Any decent team at the level of Iowa should have had a handful of good applicants. Iowa has had maybe 2, in Chryst and Johns. Every other name has been underwhelming.

Troy named an OC yesterday so I'm fully expecting Kirk to fuck this all up.

 

[CleteyColgate]

A positive is that we won't have Bud or Brian developing the quarterback. I am 1000% confident that Lester can do that better than maybe any OC Iowa has ever had.

 

[Debit One]

It totally makes sense that experience as a HC now matters when hiring an OC, but did not in 2017.

 

[gable_guy]

That’s football

 

[CleteyColgate]

Kirk promoting his dumbfuck son to be OC had nothing to do with development or winning.

 

[The Tin Man]

NIL guy is making it clear that this is just his guess, but he is thinking Kirk goes with Lester due to head coaching experience. Doesn't think it's likely that both get added to the staff, as Kirk really likes Budmayr.

Nice morning update.

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

Kirk promoting his dumbfuck son to be OC had nothing to do with development or winning.

Development of his son was 100% of the reason and it ended up hopefully developing him into being unemployable.

 

[Alan Lomax]

Development of his son was 100% of the reason and it ended up hopefully developing him into being unemployable.

Fortunately he made enough to retire on.

 

[Revolver]

I've already told my people it's going to be Johns. I'll have a bunch of upset geezers if I'm wrong

This.

At work on Friday I had all these faggots eating the Kevin Johns news and stats out of the palm of my hand and everyone was feeling pretty good about it. Then several hours later I went back into the thread and saw that Tim Lester had gained steam.

The head coaching experience tipping the scale would be the most Kirk Ferentz thing of all time if true. It seems pretty obvious that Johns is the best candidate and probably the best candidate who has been named throughout the entire process.

 

[WizardHawk]

So if I’m reading correctly, Lester guided the 95th and 116th ranked offense in ‘14 and ‘15. They also ranked 104th and 116th in scoring those years.

Totally a KF guy.

 

[CleteyColgate]

Doug said Johns was a done deal based on his reliable source, right? Not sure why we are really questioning anything at this point.

 

[Debit One]

Let's not forget this gem which Leistikow posted but then took down from Twitter.

"You can't just use one. which is what we did," Lester said during a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday. "We had other ones, but we used one. We have to use them; you're trained to do that."

While he didn't think opposing teams could pick this up off film heading into games, Lester said defensive linemen would notice it during games and take advantage. However, he believes SU couldn't vary its snap count during games last season because the offensive linemen wouldn't have been able to stay onsides.

Syracuse football offense used 1 cadence all of last season

"You can't just use one. which is what we did," Lester said. "We had other ones, but we used one. We have to use them; you're trained to do that."

www.syracuse.com

 

[R2-D2]

Doug said Johns was a done deal based on his reliable source, right? Not sure why we are really questioning anything at this point.

It’s pretty disrespectful, not a very classy move by true fans.

 

[Verbal]

Choosing Lester is choosing the candidate most likely to carry Brian’s torch of ineptitude.

 

[HSP_Hawk]

Choosing Lester is choosing the candidate most likely to carry Brian’s torch of ineptitude.

"See! It wasn't Brian's fault. Iowa just can't be good at offense."

/KF, probably

 

[Hawkstrat]

Let's not forget this gem which Leistikow posted but then took down from Twitter.

Syracuse football offense used 1 cadence all of last season

"You can't just use one. which is what we did," Lester said. "We had other ones, but we used one. We have to use them; you're trained to do that."

www.syracuse.com

I'm opposed to Lester, but he took over at midseason and called attention to it. I don't know if you can blame him for that.

 

[CamelTones]

Kirks a guy that loves that his kids win the county fair but has no desire to see how they compete at the state level so he just schedules a family vacation to Branson that week every year.

 

[Kamala]

Maybe this thread should be locked until an actual OC is hired. Everyone has been freaking out for months over rumor an innuendo and nobody has any clue what is going on. I am going to be holding back my freak out until something is confirmed

 

[eyas52806]

It’s going to be Johns. Kirk interviewed Johns at the Courtyard Marriott. That’s where Johns had to be staying so Kirk came to him. So he’s trying to be nice and court him, if you will. I have on good authority Kirk likes Starbucks and that’s what the Courtyard serves. After weeks of ambiguity, the coffee brand was the key all along. There is certainly a method to Kirk’s madness.

 

[HiG 2.0]

So it’s Lester? WT actual F?

 

[CleteyColgate]

Sounds like Kirk is torn. One option he's probably considering is starting over.

 

[HiawathaHawk]

I’d prefer Johns but the Lester stuff is way over the top. He had some great offenses at WMU and would likely be bringing in several new concepts. I don’t think the gap between the two is anywhere near what it’s being made out to be.

 

[Kerky]

Tomorrow's announcement has the distinct potential of this:

 

[Renegade_ofFunk]

In all reality Lester would probably end up being a decent hire. But we all get to be pissed off about something until September. Grinding our teeth over out of context quotes on Twitter, etc. It’s going to be a blast.