Oh no, Jon. Are you impugning the coaching skills of Norm Parker? I've told morons this for years - Iowa loses to NU because we run the same dang defense virtually all the time and Northwestern knows exactly how to pick it apart like the typical virginal NU student picks the scabbed over acne off of his face. Yet O'Keefe got blamed for virtually every loss we ever suffered during his tenure. Fitz knows precisely how to just take that defense apart and keep our offense with its big o-linemen off the field so that his defense is still fresh in the fourth quarter when they need a stop. It disgusts me to say it, but Fitz is a far superior coach to Ferentz. Fitz is 50-39 in his tenure, which includes an abysmal first season where he was thrust into the head coaching job way too early when Coach Walker passed away. It bears repeating that during this same period, Ferentz is 51-38. It absolutely disgusts me that with our facilities, fan support, gigantic coaching staff budget, outrageous ticket prices, lax academic standards and uncanny ability to look the other way at many off the field transgressions there is so much parity in on the field performance between NU and Iowa.
