**Official 2022 Iowa Football Season Thread**

[Geese]

Who are you guys even arguing with? No one has said they want Brian on staff have they? Maybe I missed it.

 

[The Incredible Hawk]

You could have just said that Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz is fat like you.

So Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz isn’t fat? HaLo has told me otherwise.

 

[Billy Butters]

If they are tremendously successful in the portal and get some more playmakers on offense, I'd be ok to fuck around and find out to let Brian stay on the team in a non-OC role.

 

[Kerky]

Not really, but even so, who fucking cares?

Maybe the new OC?

 

[CurdMan]

The outrage towards Brian was deserved this year. Not on his play calling with a shitty QB and shitty OL, but because he was in on the decision to stand pat last season with an arrogance of being able to overcome a shitty QB and shitty OL with “details” and scheme. It was and is a fireable offense to have run it all back in 2022. You hitched your wagon to Spencer Petras and Jack Plumb and they predictably led you right off the side of the cliff.

With all of that being said, it can also be true that Brian is a qualified and capable position coach and still has a future in coaching ahead of him in the NFL.

 

[CurdMan]

Ultimately 2022 was a wasted season and that’s on Kirk and Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz. I am happy with the recent change in direction but will not blame anyone for leaving after such an incompetent and reckless approach to 2022. I know there were rumors of LeVar moving on and hopefully that doesn’t happen.

 

[MikeyJoe]

Who are you guys even arguing with? No one has said they want Brian on staff have they? Maybe I missed it.

Doug has been posting on Facebook that he hopes Brian is on staff for 1 million years

 

[MikeyJoe]

With all of that being said, it can also be true that Brian is a qualified and capable position coach and still has a future in coaching ahead of him in the NFL.

Right. And so he should do whatever single other coach in the country who doesn’t work for his dad does: get fired for his poor performance here, and get a job somewhere else, and prove that he can still be successful.

 

[Alan Lomax]

I’m enjoying the lols at the thought that Brian would have OC duties stripped from him, but he stays on staff as a position coach? Lol, I don’t think that’s a thing.

 

[Revolver]

I think a few more pages of this Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz nonsense and you guys can figure this out.

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

On his year as a running backs coach, Ferentz stated in 2020 during a coaching clinic "I'm like the worst running back coach in America. I was a shitty running back coach... I did it for a year, and I quit. It was too hard. I was no good at it." After taking over as quarterbacks coach in spring 2022, Ferentz told media "man, I got a lot to learn."

 

[Hawkstrat]

Brian's dad Kirk wants Brian on staff.

 

[The Dad]

Who are you guys even arguing with? No one has said they want Brian on staff have they? Maybe I missed it.

Frodo did because he’s a hairy fucking retard.

 

[Gushawk]

Nobody wants Brian on staff. The point was if for some stupid reason he wants to take a demotion from OC to OL or TE coach, the world will go on and everyone at Iowa will be able to more than function.

my point is that any “reason” would be as “stupid” as fuck and could only happen here. as a fan and alum, it’s annoying to me that we might distinguish ourselves as unique in this regard. It’s dysfunctional

 

[Alan Lomax]

I figured it was going to be a play from Utah. They have to be the dream, right?

Fairly balanced, power, zone blocking.

Iowa isn't going to resemble a Lincoln Riley offense.

Utah is perfect. Their offense zone blocks like gangbusters!

 

[wondergrape]

So Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz isn’t fat? HaLo has told me otherwise.

Oh no, he's fat.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

Frodo did because he’s a hairy fucking retard.

The sky wouldn't fall if he stayed on in another position. Send him packing, I don't really care.

 

[Fair and Balanced]

Obviously. Gets no credit for anything, blame for everything.

Makes sense.

It’s quite possible he’s a good position coach (technique) while being a shitty OC (scheme). The former is harder to judge.

 

[Hawkeye_Pierce]

It’s quite possible he’s a good position coach (technique) while being a shitty OC (scheme). The former is harder to judge.

Stats suggest he’s not a good OL coach. Or QB coach. Maybe his very narrow skill is to coach great TEs.

 

[CleteyColgate]

So Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz isn’t fat? HaLo has told me otherwise.

He's got former offensive lineman fat

 

[The Dad]

Stats suggest he’s not a good OL coach. Or QB coach. Maybe his very narrow skill is to coach great TEs.

I remember a video clip of him calling out a young Tristan Wirfs for being a pussy and then he eventually turned out to not be a pussy so I’ll generously give BF credit for that transformation.

 

[Gushawk]

He does look quite a bit thinner than he has for most of his tenure in that pic. Could he stress related weight loss

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

He does looker quite a bit thinner than he has for most of his tenure in that pic. Could he stress related weight loss

Is stress related weight loss a thing? I thought it was the opposite.

 

[AZmessDAWG]

You can say that, but if I'm a new, incoming OC, there is no way I want Brian on staff.

If you’re a new OC you’re more than likely thankful as fuck for the job.

 

[CamelTones]

McNamara just started following Keagan Johnson on Instagram, Tyler Barnes never wished Johnson luck on Twitter like he did the other portal entries, and we should know by early in the week if he’s coming back.

Now let’s get back to talking about Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz.

 

[Gushawk]

Is stress related weight loss a thing? I thought it was the opposite.

it is for me. divorcing / recently divorced people are often quite thin relative to their “normal/happy” weight, for instance.

 

[Shawneemicks]

Stats suggest he’s not a good OL coach. Or QB coach. Maybe his very narrow skill is to coach great TEs.

Again, literally anyone could coach Fant, Hockenson, etc

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

it is for me. divorcing / recently divorced people are often quite thin relative to their “normal/happy” weight, for instance.

Here I am playing several hours of pickup basketball at the JCC every Sunday like a sucker.

 

[AZmessDAWG]

lol

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

Again, literally anyone could coach Fant, Hockenson, etc

I appreciated when Fran was asked about having back to back players of the year (Garza, Murray) and he said "It's not my coaching".

 

[Stu Beagle]

Gonna need examples of times an O coordinator stayed, took a demotion and it worked out

 

[Shawneemicks]

The answer is zero. Zero

 

[Gushawk]

Gonna need examples of times an O coordinator stayed, took a demotion and it worked out

brian is a very special boy according to some in this thread

 

[Geese]

brian is a very special boy according to some in this thread

Like who? I've seen none of that. Yet pages of bitching about him

 

[The Full Monte]

As the moderator of another site told me when I expressed concern that Iowa wasn't aggressively pursuing a portal big to protect the rim for this year's basketball team......

"PATIENCE"

Fun side note, I learned this week that the post announcing that they had finally banned you holds the all-time like record on that board

 

[Bob Sanders]

Like who? I've seen none of that. Yet pages of bitching about him

If you don't hate every aspect of someone/something, it means you love all aspects of them. /s

 

[Gushawk]

We’ve seen many suggestions that he’s such a good position coach that his retention would be defensible if not justified or even desirable.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

people who think college athletic programs aren’t privately held family businesses

I mean, the fans seem to be fine with it?

 

[Hawkstrat]

To some extent, it doesn't matter if it's defensible. His dad is the King.

People are just trying to relieve those two notions. We want him gone, his dad calls the shots.

 

[Gushawk]

I mean, the fans seem to be fine with it?

do they?

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Right. And so he should do whatever single other coach in the country who doesn’t work for his dad does: get fired for his poor performance here, and get a job somewhere else, and prove that he can still be successful.

ISU literally just offered their OC a demotion.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

do they?

Tickets are sold out and funding is at record levels

 

[MikeyJoe]

ISU literally just offered their OC a demotion.

Oh if ISU did that totally disproves my point which was contingent on this never having happened ever before in recorded history boy am I embarrassed.

 

[MikeyJoe]

Tickets are sold out and funding is at record levels

Definitely a complete endorsement of 100% of things that happen within the football program excellent point wow you're good at this.

 

[Fritz Fequiere]

McNamara just started following Keagan Johnson on Instagram, Tyler Barnes never wished Johnson luck on Twitter like he did the other portal entries, and we should know by early in the week if he’s coming back.

Now let’s get back to talking about Kirk’s son, Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz.

Maybe you're not following along. Halo told me that KJ duped the whole coaching staff because he hates Brian/Spencer/the offense. Why this whole scheme would start a year ago right before the bowl game and he stayed on the team a whole year is just due to his deep-seated resentment of the coaching staff and him wanting to pull a long con. Probably.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Oh if ISU did that totally disproves my point which was contingent on this never having happened ever before in recorded history boy am I embarrassed.

you should be.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Definitely a complete endorsement of 100% of things that happen within the football program excellent point wow you're good at this.

lol

 

[The Incredible Hawk]

He does look quite a bit thinner than he has for most of his tenure in that pic. Could he stress related weight loss

I mean compared to HaLo he’s a fitness competitor.

 

[Gushawk]

Tickets are sold out and funding is at record levels

might as well just keep Kirk’s son, Brian Ferentz as OC then

 

[Gushawk]

I mean compared to HaLo he’s a fitness competitor.

Depends who on HaLo I suppose