November 19th, 2023 at 5:50 AM ^
Best wishes to Kirk.
November 19th, 2023 at 6:21 AM ^
Long overdue.
November 19th, 2023 at 6:41 AM ^
Come home, Bob Stoops?
November 19th, 2023 at 7:17 AM ^
Bob Stoops + Phil Parker would be something to be excited about if you're an Iowa fan.
November 19th, 2023 at 8:39 AM ^
They should want some younger, shinier things.
November 19th, 2023 at 10:17 AM ^
Did anyone else see a place called "The Jerk Pit" on Route 1 in College Park yesterday?
Thought of Mel. That's probable where he is hiding out in the basement.
November 19th, 2023 at 6:48 AM ^
Great, now the coaches poll will vote them Bigten and national champs.
November 19th, 2023 at 7:14 AM ^
Too soon…
November 19th, 2023 at 7:29 AM ^
Hold the Big Ten's beer...
November 19th, 2023 at 6:57 AM ^
Google search turns up nothing—call me skeptical on this one!
November 19th, 2023 at 7:00 AM ^
"Coming up in Season 4-Ted Lasso takes over a loveable band of castoffs who have a different definition of winning..."
November 19th, 2023 at 12:19 PM ^
Still better in the original Major League
November 19th, 2023 at 7:03 AM ^
This is the exact opposite of what he said a day after Brian was effectively fired by the new AD. I’m going to need to see something a little more solid source wise than trust me bro
November 19th, 2023 at 7:09 AM ^
2023 was the most Iowa-ish year for Ferentz to exit. They are somehow ranked in the top 20 having scored about 30 pts all year. Lol
November 19th, 2023 at 7:53 AM ^
Hire Lance Leipold. That would be a perfect fit given his experience at UWW and success at Buffalo and Kansas.
November 19th, 2023 at 8:12 AM ^
Leipold already turned MSU down. I doubt he all of a sudden wants the Iowa job.
He seems like he wants to build something at Kansas, and even if he doesn’t, he can hold out for a better job.
November 19th, 2023 at 7:56 AM ^
Now he can start working on his memoirs, including stories about how he started his coaching career under Amos Alonzo Stagg (and coincidently, how he still uses the same offensive scheme.)
November 19th, 2023 at 8:10 AM ^
If I knew they were doing away with divisions and I didn’t have a free ticket to Indy every other year, I’d want out too.
If this is true, I have to believe all of Iowa City is rejoicing.
November 19th, 2023 at 11:09 AM ^
He's their winningest coach in history. They've had incredible stability - just two coaches in 40+ years. If they're celebrating, they should be careful what they wish for.
November 19th, 2023 at 1:07 PM ^
Right. Iowa is never going to recruit all that well, so their uncanny ability to consistently tough out tight defensive battles with grit and composure is really the only thing that differentiates Iowa from the various other corn schools. Without Ferentz, the bottom could drop at least as easily as they hire some genius who gets better results than Ferentz has.
November 19th, 2023 at 8:13 AM ^
I mean, he's been at Iowa in some capacity since 1980 or 1981 or somewhere in that range (minus a decade in other positions - thanks to snarling wolverine below for the correction), so I can see it if that's case. If it is because of divisions, the lack of them does essentially mean that Iowa - outside of some freakish year in the future - probably never goes to the conference championship game again, at least not as constructed and conceived.
November 19th, 2023 at 10:23 AM ^
He was at Iowa from 1981-89, then became Maine's head coach, then served as an NFL assistant before returning to Iowa as their head coach in 1999.
November 19th, 2023 at 8:20 AM ^
Once his son was fired seemingly without his input you knew this was coming.
Iowa's another appealing team looking for a coach, which will shuffle around the candidates a bit more. That list MSU put out a couple days ago, for example, is basically the same I'd give for Iowa and, let's be fair, Iowa has had more sustained success than MSU over the years and is pretty appealing.
November 19th, 2023 at 9:06 AM ^
I think Iowa goes and offers Mark Stoops.
I live in central KY and most casual UK fans are sick of the same season over and over again. Realizing Mark won’t take them past the middle of the SEC on a regular basis. The only thing is, for some reason Mark does make 9 mil a year, so that’s a big number to over come for sure
Being a middling defensive team is right up Iowa’s ally!
November 19th, 2023 at 9:21 AM ^
21 punt salute for Coach Ferentz
November 19th, 2023 at 10:57 AM ^
They really should do two B1G's. There's been a huge fall off in the West programs and they don't need to be someone's bye week.
Upper tier
Lower tier
Call it whatever you'd like.
November 19th, 2023 at 11:47 AM ^
Combine that with relegation between the two and that could be really fun and add some more drama to an other wise dull season for most of the teams (no chance at the CFP or B1G CC)
November 19th, 2023 at 12:19 PM ^
What if Michigan had been relegated after 2020? How fun would that have been?
November 19th, 2023 at 2:18 PM ^
Then we would have been promoted in 2021?
Maybe there's a championship option where the #2 team in the upper division plays the lower division winner, and the winner of that game plays the #1 team? Just spitballing ways to give the lower division team a chance. But I'd rather just see them forget the championship, have the top 9 and bottom 9 play round robin, and be done.
November 19th, 2023 at 11:34 AM ^
I guess he saw the writing on the wall, that his little niche was about to get run over by a freight train of better football teams. Gotta preserve that legacy.
November 19th, 2023 at 12:19 PM ^
Yeah, I'm not sure about OP's sources, but there's literally nothing anywhere else about this, not on national CFB sources or Iowa forums.
Is this forum trying to start rumors?
November 19th, 2023 at 12:23 PM ^
They have had 2 coaches since 1979. Remarkable and akin to the Steelers in the NFL with 3 since the 1970s. (also share colors)
Iowa is in danger of Nebraska'ing without the right hire. It's not exactly fertile recruiting territory and I doubt they have much in NIL etc.
November 19th, 2023 at 2:23 PM ^
Not being reported ANYWHERE.
November 19th, 2023 at 6:52 PM ^
Brian Hartline would be great for Iowa.
November 20th, 2023 at 1:11 AM ^
Another MGoKnowsNothing.