Ferentz fatigue?

[BigD]

Fair weather is the opposite of blind loyalty.

Let’s face it, the Ferentz era at Iowa needs to rapidly come to a close. The game passed him by about a decade ago when he thought hiring his son was a good idea.

That will be a sad ending to a football family when ever Kirk does retire. It should not have taken as long as it did when Beth pulled the plug. Loyal Iowa Hawkeye Fans had to feel a certain sadness that it came to the point where the son of the record breaking Big Ten coach had to be fired.

I know I mentioned it before, maybe a couple of times when we openly were critical of the situation. It's also sad that the whole football world had to watch the unraveling of an former Iowa player that I and ten of thousands all cheered for when Brian wore the Iowa uniform. I personally wanted him to be highly successful as the offensive coordinator at Iowa and then be hired as the head coach. This not only would have carried on Kirk's legacy but still would have been a connection of the late Hayden Fry.

It's also sad that the results were so poor that even former great Iowa players were calling it NEPOTISM. It may forever be a stain on a honorable coaching job by Kirk. If only Brian had been some what successful then there wouldn't have been such a huge spotlight on what happened.

 

[hawkinn3]

Well you see the boosters who produce less NIL money then Iowa state love him so we gotta keep him or we’d be in danger of falling from our lofty 8-4 perch.

 

[hawkeye12345]

There were other situations where Ferentz has somehow sidestepped the axe.

Rabdo
Racism
Nepotism
Mediocrity followed by miracle seasons followed by mediocrity

All while being the highest paid Iowa government employee for 2 decades.

 

[BigD]

It will be interesting to see if the magician can pull a rabbit out of his hat again. How many times when it appears strong apathy has set in, it is then when Kirk's teams rise to the occasion and surprise all of us. I know this seems highly unlikely at this time, but isn't that the case each time?

Still it really does have a different feel to it this time. The conference has expanded to a record amount of teams and the odds of a significant bounce back seem more unlikely than ever before. Let's face it the hype of our quarterback had visions of an elusive running QB with the accuracy of a gifted scoring QB that would remedy what has ailed the program for way too long. We still haven't recovered from the previous offensive coordinator with a stench of questionable family association during that whole time.

To add to this apathy is the disastrous results of the last two BIG TEN Championship games with the winner of the West Conference getting their asses handed to them by the East Conference Champions. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

Now the odds have even worsened the last few years with the expansion of the conference by add the best of the Pac-10 conference and the let down of the previously added Super Star QB (how be it injured which is so IOWA). This caused the significant hype mention previously in my comments

Let's be honest what has Iowa done lately? We get a false hope with winning the West Conference just to get our asses handed to us. So here we are all teams in one division. We just went through a dark valley with the previous Offensive Coordinator and if this current pathway goes south this year it will be another HUGE embarrassment to the Hawkeye fan base. It's not looking pretty at this point, but who knows Kirk may pull that rabbit out.

If it doesn't turn out good the next victim could be the basketball program. Having the basketball program starting up under a new coach who already is following FRAN FATIGUE it will not help if the program is preceded in death by a stagnate football program. It won't be fair to Ben but basketball fatigue had just happened and to heap on top a possible football fatigue may put Ben in situation that is totally out of his control.

A tired fan base could work against Ben and put him in a environment that may be nothing of his own doing. On the other hand it also could put him in position to bring energy back to a tired fan base and elevate him to a GOD LIKE status as far a necessitating the Iowa fan base. You have to go back to BEFORE Hayden Fry came along and Basketball was where the energy level was along with a renown wrestling program. Well a great basketball program would be what the doctored ordered especially if the football program tanks this year.

Anyone have any carrots??? We may need that rabbit.