Glenn Mason Territory

[1977Hawkeye]

Nebraska is #6 alltime in college football wins....sorry but that means something in the recruiting wars.
Nebraska has far more college football tradition than Iowa. It is a fact.

That is quite true. But how do you suppose Nebraska got that tradition? They sure as heck weren't born with it. They went out and won it.

Nebraska has only a little more than half the population that Iowa does:
List of U.S. states and territories by population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So how can they achieve what they have with such little population to recruit from, yet Iowa cannot?

Look, I'm not blind to the fact that Iowa has recruiting disadvantages that alot of other programs don't have. It's still a low population state. But Iowa has been a very good football program for the better part of the past 30 years and counting. That has got to count for something at some point, doesn't it?

Will Iowa ever be a football power that wins national titles? Doubtful. Can we compete and give a good account of ourselves nationally? I think we can.

For the record - Nebraska hasn't been NEBRASKA for the past 10+ years. I'm not sold that they are about to get that old mojo back, where they are unstoppable like they were in the mid 1990's.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[HawkeyeDenis]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I DESPISE this argument. Who says that by letting Ferentz go, we would be required to hire someone who isn't as good? Where is that in the coaching search rule book? It is certainly possible that we would find someone who could do better. The Glen Mason/Mr. Davis references are just infuriating.

I don't want Ferentz canned. But this would never be an argument that I would use to defend him. Because it's ridiculous.

There are a lot of programs that take a dive after a successful coach leaves. Nebraska. Alabama. Those are prime jobs and they both went through a lot of growing pains after their successful coach left. Expecting Iowa to get another successful coach after KF leaves may not happen.

Iowa isn't a prime job and getting a top coach entails more than a competitive salary. When Iowa is competing with the top programs such as tOSU, Florida and Michigan they are at a distinct disadvantage.

 

[MoseSchrute]

That is quite true. But how do you suppose Nebraska got that tradition? They sure as heck weren't born with it. They went out and won it.

They got lucky that Bob Devaney came to town is what happened. He was their second choice, and he almost passed on the job anyway, but I forget the details on that, had something to do with his wife. Their first choice(forgot his name) passed on the job for Texas A&M, and went on to a few lackluster seasons there.

 

[MoseSchrute]

sweatervest comes, i become a cyclone. (tearing up)

I think it would be interesting to see how good he could be at a place like this; minus the cheating, of course.