**Official 2022 Iowa Football Season Thread**

[Gushawk]

When did they start doing that outside of bye weeks?

 

[nolookpass]

you always hear former players praise Phil Parker. Has any former player ever talked about Brian like that?

born on 3rd, thinks he hit a triple.

 

[Gushawk]

I’ve heard rumblings that the WR room (such as it is/was) doesn’t love Brian. Not clear that any room does.

 

[Creed]

I’ve heard rumblings that the WR room (such as it is/was) doesn’t love Brian. Not clear that any room does.

 

[douglasbader]

Throwing Brian to the “wolves” tomorrow is a somewhat interesting move for Kirk. Hard to speculate as to motives, but could be a “this is your baby; own it” type move. Genuinely want to hear what he has to say. I think the odds of a full blown “circle the wagons and stay the course” message are about 90%, but hoping for a slip up or moment of candor.

Lol Gus.

 

[The Full Monte]

The entire state of the offense is just sort of depressing. There’s no one thing you fix and just make it magically all better. Replace Petras and you still have and OLine that has been pretty bad and struggles to run the ball. Fix the line and you still have the worst QB in all of college football throwing to “the Ankeny High School homecoming court.” Throw some talent out there at WR and the shit QB can’t get anyone the ball. It’s all just one big ball of shit. Even replacing Brian doesn’t necessarily mean this improved. There’s still a non-zero chance that Kirk is sort of dictating to him what he’s to do. Shit is depressing AF

 

[Stu Beagle]

Brian is probably a pretty good position coach for TE or Oline. But that might be his ceiling

 

[L. Wade Childress]

you always hear former players praise Phil Parker. Has any former player ever talked about Brian like that?

born on 3rd, thinks he hit a triple.

yes. Many.

 

[BBK]

Yeah Ive never seen Iowa football this active in social media trying to calm everyone down.

 

[BngHawk]

Oh boy. That’s a pubic hair away from telling us we need to “trust the process”.

 

[BluesHawk]

The entire state of the offense is just sort of depressing. There’s no one thing you fix and just make it magically all better. Replace Petras and you still have and OLine that has been pretty bad and struggles to run the ball. Fix the line and you still have the worst QB in all of college football throwing to “the Ankeny High School homecoming court.” Throw some talent out there at WR and the shit QB can’t get anyone the ball. It’s all just one big ball of shit. Even replacing Brian doesn’t necessarily mean this improved. There’s still a non-zero chance that Kirk is sort of dictating to him what he’s to do. Shit is depressing AF

Counterpoint - with one change on offense, I think this could be a pretty damn good year given the defense.

 

[Renegade_ofFunk]

The entire state of the offense is just sort of depressing. There’s no one thing you fix and just make it magically all better. Replace Petras and you still have and OLine that has been pretty bad and struggles to run the ball. Fix the line and you still have the worst QB in all of college football throwing to “the Ankeny High School homecoming court.” Throw some talent out there at WR and the shit QB can’t get anyone the ball. It’s all just one big ball of shit. Even replacing Brian doesn’t necessarily mean this improved. There’s still a non-zero chance that Kirk is sort of dictating to him what he’s to do. Shit is depressing AF

Again, a “hard knocks” of this team would be really interesting. It’s easy to forget the beginning of the 2019 season where they had Stanley out of the gun a ton with 3 WR and at other times 2 RB sets dealing until the ISU game. Not to mention when Brian was the run game coordinator in 2016 when they were mixing up blocking concepts a lot and had 2x 1000 yard rushers with an Oline that was essentially 5 guards and no WRs and a QB whose intestines were dropping into his nutsack every other series due to injuries.

Brian seems to be a dumbfuck but we don’t know for sure how much of this is really on him.

he really shouldn’t be in the position he’s in but it’s worth thinking about IMO.

 

[Saul Berkley]

Again, a “hard knocks” of this team would be really interesting. It’s easy to forget the beginning of the 2019 season where they had Stanley out of the gun a ton with 3 WR and at other times 2 RB sets dealing until the ISU game. Not to mention when Brian was the run game coordinator in 2016 when they were mixing up blocking concepts a lot and had 2x 1000 yard rushers with an Oline that was essentially 5 guards and no WRs and a QB whose intestines were dropping into his nutsack every other series due to injuries.

Brian seems to be a dumbfuck but we don’t know for sure how much of this is really on him.

he really shouldn’t be in the position he’s in but it’s worth thinking about IMO.

Yep. I almost forgot, too, how creative the offense got for a while there back in 2018 and 2019. For some reason, they went back to vanilla offense with GDGD style passing attack. Yet they claim they have 2 QBs they love. Something doesn't add up.

 

[Shawneemicks]

It’s literally everything with the offense. Everything.
QB sucks
OL worst in 15 years
WRs non existent
TEs decent but overrated
RBs who knows
OC game plans everything within 10yd LOS

It cannot be fixed this season.

 

[eclone]

The entire state of the offense is just sort of depressing. There’s no one thing you fix and just make it magically all better. Replace Petras and you still have and OLine that has been pretty bad and struggles to run the ball. Fix the line and you still have the worst QB in all of college football throwing to “the Ankeny High School homecoming court.” Throw some talent out there at WR and the shit QB can’t get anyone the ball. It’s all just one big ball of shit. Even replacing Brian doesn’t necessarily mean this improved. There’s still a non-zero chance that Kirk is sort of dictating to him what he’s to do. Shit is depressing AF

 

[Saul Berkley]

Yep. Half those guys are our WRs.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

"The following media includes potentially sensitive content."

LOFL

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Are they at least all healthy?

 

[hawkeyealum]

It’s literally everything with the offense. Everything.
QB sucks
OL worst in 15 years
WRs non existent
TEs decent but overrated
RBs who knows
OC game plans everything within 10yd LOS

It cannot be fixed this season.

Shitty OL can be masked with a better offensive scheme and QB. Loads of teams have average to below average lines and they can move the ball

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

Shitty OL can be masked with a better offensive scheme and QB. Loads of teams have average to below average lines and they can move the ball

The lack of a line will show up against UW and NW and UM, but otherwise, yeah.

 

[The Tin Man]

It’s literally everything with the offense. Everything.
QB sucks
OL worst in 15 years
WRs non existent
TEs decent but overrated
RBs who knows
OC game plans everything within 10yd LOS

It cannot be fixed this season.

I go back to the 2017 OSU beat down. Clearly BriDAWG’s best game, over 400yds total offense, balanced yardage. But then I look at the units you’ve identified above and they all suck in comparison. So I guess it all comes back to the old saying, “It’s not the X’s and O’s, but the Jimmy’s and Joe’s.”

The problem is recruiting and retention. The Hawkeyes have been bitten a little bit by their own success, losing some early draftees to the NFL. They’ve also had some attrition, from mental health and injuries. And then you have the transfers.

So if we can agree on the problem, those to blame are the coaches (head and assistant) and coordinators (offensive and recruiting) responsible for recruiting the offensive side of the ball. Traditional recruiting has been mediocre to poor in these units recently. More glaring though, I believe they have really dropped the ball with respect to the portal. They are viewing it as transfers with limited time and bringing in mercenaries to take playing time from their current players. They need to think of it as a second recruiting class every season, or picking up free agents in the NFL. It needs to be utilized, especially when retention is a problem for one reason or another.

Hopefully the staff can realize it sooner rather than later. Otherwise they will die as dinosaurs. They need to evolve to the new reality. I’m sure NIL will continue to play an ever larger role in recruiting and retention as well.

 

[Shawneemicks]

Retention hasn’t been an issue over the time of the portal. But they do need to use it to address weaknesses better.

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

 

[hawkeyealum]

He shouldn’t have been surprised.

 

[6deuce]

I go back to the 2017 OSU beat down. Clearly BriDAWG’s best game, over 400yds total offense, balanced yardage. But then I look at the units you’ve identified above and they all suck in comparison. So I guess it all comes back to the old saying, “It’s not the X’s and O’s, but the Jimmy’s and Joe’s.”

The problem is recruiting and retention. The Hawkeyes have been bitten a little bit by their own success, losing some early draftees to the NFL. They’ve also had some attrition, from mental health and injuries. And then you have the transfers.

So if we can agree on the problem, those to blame are the coaches (head and assistant) and coordinators (offensive and recruiting) responsible for recruiting the offensive side of the ball. Traditional recruiting has been mediocre to poor in these units recently. More glaring though, I believe they have really dropped the ball with respect to the portal. They are viewing it as transfers with limited time and bringing in mercenaries to take playing time from their current players. They need to think of it as a second recruiting class every season, or picking up free agents in the NFL. It needs to be utilized, especially when retention is a problem for one reason or another.

Hopefully the staff can realize it sooner rather than later. Otherwise they will die as dinosaurs. They need to evolve to the new reality. I’m sure NIL will continue to play an ever larger role in recruiting and retention as well.

That 2017 offense had 2 NFL WR's, the current best RT in the NFL, a 1st rd Center, 2 first round NFL TE's and a shifty faggot at RB. Brian still managed to fuck up multiple games that year with his faggotry.

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

That 2017 offense had 2 NFL WR's, the current best RT in the NFL, a 1st rd Center, 2 first round NFL TE's and a shifty faggot at RB. Brian still managed to fuck up multiple games that year with his faggotry.

Like the very next week when we put up 66 yards and had 4 turnovers against Wisconsin.

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

That 2017 offense had 2 NFL WR's, the current best RT in the NFL, a 1st rd Center, 2 first round NFL TE's and a shifty faggot at RB. Brian still managed to fuck up multiple games that year with his faggotry.

???

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

He shouldn’t have been surprised.

 

[Gushawk]

The portal feels dirty and wrong to Kirk, I’m sure. He needs to get the fuck over it.

 

[RazHawk]

His performance was a reflection of him sucking, which we've seen for 3 straight years, you don't need any further data points to make that call.

 

[RazHawk]

Went from Spencer is our starter to hedging very fast.

 

[CleteyColgate]

I’ve heard rumblings that the WR room (such as it is/was) doesn’t love Brian. Not clear that any room does.

That room is empty

 

[Talkin' Goat]

It seems as though Spencer’s fundamentals tend to waver when he’s shitting his pants during live action.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Went from Spencer is our starter to hedging very fast.

Nobody believes that

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Including @Nobody

 

[KitKatApples]

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPED

 

[6deuce]

???

The Ferentz's have made me retarded.

 

[MikeyJoe]

His performance was a reflection of him sucking, which we've seen for 3 straight years, you don't need any further data points to make that call.

It’s concerning they seem to legitimately not get that his performance is never a reflection of “how good he looks in practice”.

 

[brantshawks]

The Ferentz's have made me retarded.

And he's been here a loooong time.

 

[Greg Obrecht]

SMH

 

[Geese]

 

[Geese]

Lololol

 

[The Full Monte]

His performance was a reflection of him sucking, which we've seen for 3 straight years, you don't need any further data points to make that call.

Anyone that mentions how Spencer looks in practice should immediately be punched I. The fucking face. With 20+ starts in live action vs real football teams you would have to be an abjectly stupid motherfucker to weight anything he does in practice when considering if he’s capable of doing his job on the field.

Brian unfortunately is too fucking stupid to realize this

 

[Greg Obrecht]

I’ve never been coached by someone who values practice performance over actual game performance. Eventually all competent coaches come to the conclusion that certain players simply don’t have it when the bullets start to fly. Then they act accordingly. Apparently our coaches philosophy is the exact opposite.

 

[Soda Popinski]

Video

Iowa OC Brian Ferentz after rough Week 1: Not time to panic

Iowa's OC said he was surprised by Spencer Petras' poor performance after what he'd seen since April.

www.hawkcentral.com

 

[The Full Monte]

Brian oddly enough commented that he thought Spencer had enough time to get throws off. That’s more pointed than I expected

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

LOFL. Fuck that guy.

 

[BuffettHawk]

Video

Iowa OC Brian Ferentz after rough Week 1: Not time to panic

Iowa's OC said he was surprised by Spencer Petras' poor performance after what he'd seen since April.

www.hawkcentral.com

"When his feet were set and he was delivering the ball the way that he should, there weren't any issues. When the fundamentals weren't quite there, there were issues."

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

Mouth breather.

 

[Shawneemicks]

Lies