What a curve ball that'd be.... I wouldn't have thought of that... I don't see it happening but Wisky has more $ more everything then ISU ever will. Pollard could be getting tired of the financial restraints. Hell he's been at ISU quite awhile now. Crazier things have happened I suppose. But just looking at where the programs currently are I couldn't see Campbell doing that. He's already turned down way better opportunities.
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Gander Hawk
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You'd think, given their history, the open checkbooks would've gone to the basketball team.
NorthKCHawk
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Pollard is not going anywhere. He is safe, beloved, and has built something out of nothing. He would be a fool to leave the safe confines of The Big Top.
Besides, schools don't back up the Brinks Truck for ADs like that.
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Trev Alberts and Texas A&M
Besides, schools don't back up the Brinks Truck for ADs like that.
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Trev Alberts and Texas A&M
HawkPowerlifter
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I read a few articles and the president and AD both assured Cignetti that they were committed to helping build a winner when interviewing him. I imagine donors got tired of losing, and opened the checkbooks and were told by administration "This is what it's going to take." Somewhere, I read surprisingly IU has deep pockets.
I was surprised by the article I posted above that they were #6 in NIL spending for all of college football. Granted Penn State, tOSU, and Oregon were all top 10 as well.
And take nothing away from Cignetti. He has done of helluva job, but it shows the power of the almighty dollar when you can get donors behind you to build a winner from nothing.
SwirlinLingerie
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Nope. I think he'd be more likely to retire than go somewhere else. Or maybe one final gig as a commissioner. Or possibly even something outside of sports.
That won't necessarily stop Wisconsin from thinking about it.
kicker22
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He's too low key of a coach to announce it before the season starts and having the entire season be a farewell tour. IMO it'll be known to his inner circle in advance so they can start looking or figuring out who the next man in will be, and then announced after his last game.
If an internal predecessor is decided upon I can see it being known ahead of time and announced early on, however I don't see KF being the type of person that wants/needs that attention and would view it as a distraction to the team which is why I see him quietly riding off into the sunset.
Yeah if he were to decide during the yr I don't think he'd let that out beyond his most trusted of friends on the staff. He wouldn't want that getting out. It's so tough for that to not leak out. His inner circle of his wife, kids, Barnes and Parker is about as far out as I think he'd go with it. I agree he'd probably announce it after the yr with no hoopla or anything. I doubt he'd even do it between the last regular season game and the bowl game to not have it be a distraction. That said just cause you and I and many others probably share similar takes on that who knows what the man might do. He could surprise us.
Alberts leaving Neb on a whim was just as hilarious as Frosts tenure at Neb being a dumpster fire to me. I don't think anyone saw that coming.
trj
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Not everyone is pushing Kirk out, but he is 70. Kirk is still very coherent, and it isn’t a situation like the late stage Paterno, Bobby Bowden or even f*cking Joe Biden…where everyone around said person is propping him up. It is just a recognition that this shit isn’t going to last forever.
So yeah, if it all lines up where DeBoer gets run out of Alabama, and Kirk walks away at the same time…give me DeBoer over Levar Woods or Seth Wallace.
kicker22
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No your absolutely right. It's just based on history he's going to want as little attention as possible his way and will not want it to be a distraction. That said I think we all know that he'll do whatever he feels is in the best interest of the program while trying to line things up prior to his departure/announcement.
I'd like to think so. The one thing that gives me pause about that is how he handled BF the entire time. He's since labeled Wallace as his assistant head football coach now. We can only assume he's hand picked him to be his successor based on that alone. So how head strong on having him replace him would KF be? Would he pull a Dean Smith? (He's who famously waited right before the season step down so he could have Guthridge replace him without a coaching search) A tactic Bruce Pearl just did to get his kid the Auburn job. It's a tactic that works if the AD lets it. I can't put KF above trying to do that at this point. And I'm no fan of it
SCHawkeye2
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Hayden did not anoint a successor.
Neither should Kirk.
Neither should Kirk.
SwirlinLingerie
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If Kirk does call it quits, I wonder if there will be any overlap in the candidates Iowa and Wisconsin target?
kicker22
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Not sure, but I think the only way I wouldn't support the program after he leaves would be if Coach Sub Prime somehow ended up in Iowa City once he eventually gets fired by Colorado when they realize that their success hasn't been based on his ability to coach himself out of a wet paper bag, but rather two years of scheduling weak enough that we'd of found ourselves in the playoffs if given the opportunity.
That's the only way I'd give up on this program.
Fryowa
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I'm over here praying Wallace doesn't get it or my Hawkeye football days are 100% over until it's someone else. Hawkeye football has been a huge part of my life with my now deceased dad, most of my best friends, and my son. If I had to pick a top 10 of all the best and most meaningful moments spent with my son, Iowa football would be intertwined with several of them. I don't want to see that go, but I can't support anything that POS is in charge of. At this point I'm nervous enough that I'd take Tracy Claeys.
Maybe I'd just encourage him to take the MSF course and start riding with me instead...who knows.
SwirlinLingerie
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I'm sort of fascinated by Tracy Claeys, not that I want him as Iowa's next head coach. I lived in Minnesota for about a decade and then moved to Washington, so I follow college football programs in both states and always was intrigued by Claeys.
He takes over as interim coach when Kill had to step down. Like the day after the season ended, he fires the OC (Limegrover).
That'd be like Ken O'Keefe and Norm (or Phil) coordinating for Kirk for 15 years, Kirk gets sick, KOK takes over and then fires Parker. Or the other way around, whatever.
Then Beth Goetz hires him as permanent coach. He wins 9 games and the Holiday Bowl in his only season as head coach. He tweets out something needless and stupid after his players rebelled against the administration regarding suspensions and alleged sexual assault.
New AD fires him. Mike Leach plucks him to be his DC maybe a year later. They have a great year. Midway through his second year some of Leach's longtime defensive assistants start bucking up/undercutting Claeys so he says either I'm calling the shots on D or you can get rid of me. I can't recall details but Claeys basically stuck to his guns and quit in October. He then takes an assistant role at Virgina Tech for a year and then decides to retire from coaching.
Who the hell does that? He led a very average Big Ten program to one of their best seasons in the last 50 years while he is in his 40s, and then he is out coaching all together a few years later?
From what I recall, he was total blue collar and enjoyed running a family farm with his siblings (even while coaching). Maybe he took his few million from Minnesota and said F it, the farm keeps me happy.
Shit, maybe I do want him as coach?! He's totally out of the "Iowa way." Other than that stupid tweet, I don't think he has much baggage. I'm not seriously suggesting he should be coach, no need to nail me on that. He'd fit like a glove as a defensive assistant with this current staff though...
Fryowa
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Haha, love it
