Brian Ferentz Being Asked Today About Oliver Martin's Playing Time

[Fryowa]

Lol, @Fryowa sometimes I read your post and I am amazed you can be this clueless.

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll keep that in mind as I go through my day

 

[HaydenHawk56]

I watched the clip? I guess I didn't see anything non professional. He made a great point. Who isn't getting production right now at wide out? He isn't going to feed into that narrative again this year, because last year, there were a couple of players on the team in similar situations as far as playing time and it created a distraction.

It is how he said it. I don't disagree with his main point, but he did come off as a prick to the reporter.

 

[Northside Hawk]

I think it's pretty obvious Phil doesn't want it. He has a more than qualifying resume for a good amount of P5 jobs, but he has a lot of control and stability here at Iowa.

As for BF, anyone who thinks the next HC is anyone but him is fooling themselves. I'm not sure we want to put a fool like Barta in charge of choosing KF's successor anyways.

This was brought up last week. Phil has 100% job security as long as Kirk is here and that counts for something.

Bill Brashier had it all those years as long as Hayden was here.

Narduzzi probably had 100% job security as long as Dantonio was at Michigan State but his hot seat at Pitt may have just gotten hotter after his questionable decisions last week.

 

[hawkeyes87]

An irrational person thinks road games against a team that's the defending West Champion and has won 19 games the past 2 season is an easy one.

I didn't say the game was easy- obviously they're usually solid or better. I said the "road game" aspect was negligible.

 

[Fryowa]

That’s actually the biggest argument FOR Brian in my opinion, barta’s too incompetent to hire anyone else.

For the fifty billionth time, Barta has never and will never choose anyone on a football or basketball coaching staff at the University of Iowa. Doesn’t work that way.

Baseball, rowing, golf? Yeah.

Football and basketball are above his pay grade. There are donors who drop amounts of their expendable incomes on Hawkeye MBB and FB that Farta could only dream of making in his career. They pick coaches.

 

[earlkoppelman]

Not sure I understand what you are saying? I would give him a 90% chance of being the next coach. I don’t love it, but there are worse options and Bob stoops or urban aren’t riding into Iowa city.

He is next Coach. My Crystal Ball Says it. I feel its set in stone.Done Deal 2 years ago?Bobby would not come. Stoops are Win 1st. Today Iowa Way or Brand is #1. Hawk Players Tough.Mark Stoops would cool also. Did great interview with Pat Harty.

 

[hawkeyes87]

-7 conference teams actually left their own state in OOC play: Maryland (@Temple), WIS (@USF), ILL (@UCONN), NEB (@COL), NW (@Stanford), PUR (@NEV), MIN (@Fresno St.)

Kicker fired up and coming hard! Nice post man.

But hey, let's not give UMD too much credit for leaving the state. Their state is pretty small. Their trip to Temple was almost exactly the same distance as the Hawks' to Ames. Hop in the bus, Gus!

 

[tweeterhawk]

Another piercing, hard-hitting series of questions by the Iowa sports media.

 

[Northside Hawk]

Kicker fired up and coming hard! Nice post man.

But hey, let's not give UMD too much credit for leaving the state. Their state is pretty small. Their trip to Temple was almost exactly the same distance as the Hawks' to Ames. Hop in the bus, Gus!

Are you saying we need a new plan, Stan?

 

[kicker22]

If not BF, who would everyone want? Why does everyone want to blow up a winning football program? I guess I've never understood that one fully. I would feel much better about our next coach if we hired someone who was familiar with our culture and understood what it takes to win here. We should be so lucky to be in that situation. Most schools are not. Iowa is currently an extremely healthy program that is churning out players to the NFL and winning games at a higher clip then most. I will be fairly disappointed and actually really worried if BF is not Iowa's next coach. I want this to last as long as we can have it.

My opinion is that there are other coaches out there with a more developed resume that may be interested that come from similar cultures. I simply don't think he's ready and feel that he's been working his way up the ladder too quickly to develop the skills necessary to run a program. I would prefer that they hire someone else from within that has more experience (such as Phil Parker), if they chose to fill the position from within or someone who can incorporate new ideas from outside our program (as well as New England) and mold those new philosophies with our existing philosophies which will breath new life into the program.

I simply believe that while the culture can stay intact, I would prefer to see new concepts and ideology incorporated into the program and while Brian has done that thus far I think the mentality that we are operating out of needs to continue to expand and I simply don't think that happens by going promoting Brian. I'd have no problems with coordinators remaining the same, but new life is needed in my opinion, when Kirk calls it a career.

 

[earlkoppelman]

I don’t disagree, what about Phil Parker?

Phil would be WONDERFUL. Not happening.

 

[earlkoppelman]

For the fifty billionth time, Barta has never and will never choose anyone on a football or basketball coaching staff at the University of Iowa. Doesn’t work that way.

Baseball, rowing, golf? Yeah.

Football and basketball are above his pay grade. There are donors who drop amounts of their expendable incomes on Hawkeye MBB and FB that Farta could only dream of making in his career. They “pick” coaches.

Correct again. Barta makes no Major decisions.Geez!

 

[hawkeyes87]

Are you saying we need a new plan, Stan?

No need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me.

(not actually a favorite or anything, but yes I thought about "bus trip" and that line popped into my head)

 

[kicker22]

If not BF, who would everyone want? Why does everyone want to blow up a winning football program? I guess I've never understood that one fully. I would feel much better about our next coach if we hired someone who was familiar with our culture and understood what it takes to win here. We should be so lucky to be in that situation. Most schools are not. Iowa is currently an extremely healthy program that is churning out players to the NFL and winning games at a higher clip then most. I will be fairly disappointed and actually really worried if BF is not Iowa's next coach. I want this to last as long as we can have it.

I also think from an organizational standpoint if we set our sights promoting from within this far out it becomes a matter of grooming someone to fit a mold, while ignoring others from outside the program who may be just as capable with better resumes. I think we miss out on the bigger picture if we set our sights on someone this soon.

 

[DBAHawkFan]

I refuse to believe we can't find someone besides Brian who can come in here and install a more exciting brand of football (90% on the offensive side) and still come away with KF 7-5 records on average.

I believe it's this offensive philosophy that has kept Iowa from reaching 9-10 wins on a more frequent basis. Too many seasons where the offense can only muster up points in the teens, and put ungodly amount of pressure on the defense to win games.

We've see in over the past 10 years, the defense rarely gets a stop at the end of games. They wouldn't need to if our scheme wasn't set up that we play for time management vs points.

I don't know about everyone else, but has anyone come away from the last few years of BF offense thinking "Yeah, this guy really gets it!". Instead my perception is that we seem to like some small changes he's brought to the offense, but 99% of it is still the same stuff we saw under GDGD. That 1% is a few deeper passes a year, and some counter/pulls of OL

If he is made the HC, let's stop pretending he'll just change once he's out from his dad's shadow. This is who he is.

 

[kicker22]

Kicker fired up and coming hard! Nice post man.

But hey, let's not give UMD too much credit for leaving the state. Their state is pretty small. Their trip to Temple was almost exactly the same distance as the Hawks' to Ames. Hop in the bus, Gus!

Agree 100% but I'm not going to twist things as they "left the state". I've said 1000 times that I'd love to see us schedule heavy hitters in OOC play or at least programs with national brands. Zero argument to that point or the argument that everyone else schedules pastries so we may as well continue to do the same. I totally get it and absolutely see both sides.

But calling out our program based on the fact that we don't leave the state until the first week of October I find absolutely mind blowing and completely thrown out there as nothing more than a shot aimed specifically at our program that ignores every other program in the county let alone our own conference. I have no problem with that card being played but do so throwing out the disclaimer that its nothing more than talking out ones ass while blindly ignoring everyone else.

 

[GesterHawk]

This is a question in general - not just pertaining to this particular thread:
Why do so many people think that it is such a travesty/poor decision that OM is not playing more?
What has he shown in his 17 college receptions that make some people feel the team is at such a disadvantage because he is not getting more snaps?

 

[oldhawk12]

Have you ever been around people that have an edge? I mean you don't just turn it on and off, it spills over into other things where you don't want it to necessarily. That is what having an "edge" is. If he could control it, then he would be his old man and would come off calm and reasoned.

Yes. And those that can’t learn to control it don’t earn the opportunity to advance as its a significant part of the position. So not only was he given a position he shouldn’t have been given in the first place, he showed his immaturity and meatheadedness in the pressbox a couple yrs ago but now continues to show he’s not cut out for dad and barta’s “destiny” for him

 

[GesterHawk]

Why is it that there are so many posters (on this site and others) that criticize KF for his humble and 'not sexy' approach that also criticize BF for being a little more energetic and passionate?

 

[cincyhawk]

wait so more snaps doesn't equate to more production? That's not what I've been reading on here for the last 2 seasons by all our resident experts. Seems some of the same guys saying anything about OM are the same ones who said it about AJE...who should have like 8 or 9 sacks by now if that were the case. Dude was gassed at the end of the game, he doesn't and didn't need more snaps and that's painfully obvious now. You would think that history teaches us humans something but it's rarely the case. It's amazing what Ferentz Fatigue will do to ya. It's basically a no win situation. Stanley has been tremendous this season, but Iowa fans want him to be perfect, so ya know... he's not quite good enough.

On EPPY
He's been double-teamed all year long, and teams have been scheming two second throws to prevent the bull rush Iowa puts on. Turns out when you don't have a defensive tackle they can shift dudes over to help. I expect him to be winded when he's played 50 plus snaps a game. We didn't rotate anyone in vs ISU.

They don't run his way very often. They don't throw long passes without putting three guys on him, a tackle, a TE, and a back. You can see it happen in the ISU replay when Purdy is throwing from the endzone.

ISU and Rutgers both decided that they weren't going to let AJE beat them, and schemed away from him. Others have to step up, particularly Golston. Eppy has a sack through 3 games and a ton of hurries. He's fine.

Last year, Nelson took up a lot of attention on the line, too, and teams didn't gameplan around a guy who got 25 snaps, max. We were mad that he wasn't in on key passing situations vs NW and Purdue and PSU.

On Martin
He either doesn't know the offense, or is hurt. The guy is a better version of Eddie Hinkel. His first catch was a TD. You have to wonder how a guy goes from 'being able to play all three WR positions' and catching TDs to 'not producing'. It's a fair question to ask. The coaches are not gods, and this isn't Nebraska. The press here aren't just a bunch of jock sniffers. Brian deserves praise for turning the offense around this year; but he needs to expect that question and not be offended by it, and give a more satisfactory answer - 'he's a good kid, we're happy to have him on the team, but the other guys are pretty good too and we went with the hot hands'. A little politeness to say - the other guys are better right now.

Anyway; this is a great problem to have! OM and Eppy will get theirs this year. You can count on it.