Good Lord Jon.....

[Playmaker]

-----There is no way Brian Ferentz can be worse than the lazy, fat and tired Greg Davis. No way.

Doesn't mean he is the 'best" choice though....agreed?

 

[Kennyfromminne]

-----There is no way Brian Ferentz can be worse than the lazy, fat and tired Greg Davis. No way.

Doesn't mean he is the 'best" choice though....agreed?

He could recruit worse

 

[HuckFinn]

Sorry you feel that way, but nothing I said was untrue. Michigan WRs had our defensive backs burned time after time and we won that game because they were over thrown. I guess I could YouTube the plays and link them for you if you didn't watch the games.

And when we lost we did it in absolutely stunning fashion.

I enjoyed the wins and the rest of the high points of the season but I'm not going to kid myself at the same time.

QB's overthrow on long passes with a pretty high frequency. Its a tough pass to connect and the reason it gets overthrown typically is to avoid an underthrow which is an easy pick. You should watch the game again with that in mind. Clearly it is something you did not know. I saw Aaron Rogers overthrow a few last weekend. It happens. I attend all of Iowa's home and away games in person, and have done so for nearly 20 years. I dvr all games and re-watch and enjoy analysis. Spent many years coaching at the high school level, played in hs and college. Not an expert but a pretty educated fan. But, hey ,thanks for the advice!

 

[Fryowa]

QB's overthrow on long passes with a pretty high frequency. Its a tough pass to connect and the reason it gets overthrown typically is to avoid an underthrow which is an easy pick. You should watch the game again with that in mind. Clearly it is something you did not know. I saw Aaron Rogers overthrow a few last weekend. It happens. I attend all of Iowa's home and away games in person, and have done so for nearly 20 years. I dvr all games and re-watch and enjoy analysis. Spent many years coaching at the high school level, played in hs and college. Not an expert but a pretty educated fan. But, hey ,thanks for the advice!

Congratulations on your resume. Still doesn't change anything about a lucky win being gifted to the Hawks. Contrary to what you think, I'm not anti Hawkeyes, and I hate when they lose. But I won't call obviously mediocre football good football for the sake of being a fan, especially with the size of the budget and paychecks cashed by the staff. That my friend is for homers.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

Finish this sentence: If Iowa football is a joke, Rutgers, Kansas and Iowa St football are a _______.

afterthoughts. schedule fillers. punching bags...

 

[Hawknigh]

Finish this sentence: If Iowa football is a joke, Rutgers, Kansas and Iowa St football are a _______.

Bad dream.

 

[ChosenChildren]

Only proving how predictable KF really is.

Yes, he is predictable. Most reliable, successful people are predictable.

 

[Playmaker]

------Finish this sentence: If Iowa football is a joke, Rutgers, Kansas and Iowa St football are a _______.

Iowa State has pretty much owned the 4 million dollar flop.

 

[MoseSchrute]

-----There is no way Brian Ferentz can be worse than the lazy, fat and tired Greg Davis. No way.

Doesn't mean he is the 'best" choice though....agreed?

It actually could be worse. That is always a possibility. Not saying it will be, but it could be.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

A number of us really like this move. He has coached in the super bowl. Under him the Patriot tight ends excelled. He's done a great job with the running game and offensive line at Iowa. Both have been critical in Iowa winning 20 games in 2 years, first time ever getting 2 1000 yard rushers, and having the best offensive line unit in the country in 2016. He will continue to improve this already strong program.

Brian was in scouting for NE in '08. In '09 he became an assistant with no positional coaching duties. That means he was a gopher. It wasn't until '11 that he was named TE coach and he did that for 1 season, with both of the TE's at the time being pro-bowl caliber TE's, which would be hard to screw up. So, you can overstate his importance to the Patriots and exaggerate what he learned from them all you want.

Regarding two 1000 yard rushers; how is that all Brian's credit? Greg Davis called all the plays, didn't he? AW and LD ran the ball, didn't they? But, since you want to give the run game coordinator all the credit for the running game, I have a question for you. Do you think kirk should hire a pass game coordinator to help the passing game? I'm sure you understand that it was the passing game that prevented this team from winning 10 games this season.

Note: Hayden Fry almost did it with Harmon and Gill, with one game less, and that was with a pass first offense. The critical thinker would ask why it took kirk ferentz 18 seasons to get the first dual 1000 yard rushers; since this is a run first offense. We finished 6th in the B1G in rushing yards per game (conf only). OSU finished 1st with more than 550 more yards that us. Perspective, Clinton...perspective.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

Refresh my mind....it was for the rushing yards produced under the line right? Joe Moore Award

Still think that is a joke all considered.

What is BF's pass game philosophy? Who was in charge of pass pro?

 

[ArvadaHawk]

Jon, brian was born to be the OC at Iowa? And you didn't like the Greg Davis marriage. But you don't mention at all why it took kirk 4 seasons to fire Davis. Perhaps it was because brian was born to be the OC, but maybe not ready for 4 years? And if brian is the only person that has the clout to stand up to kirk, then why do we want a tyrant as a coach? you spend your entire podcast describing that brian is the only person qualified to be OC because kirk is so inflexible that because brian can stand up to him, he'll be successful?

I do miss your critical thinking about the Iowa program. You made sense, then.

 

[HawkGold]

Brian was in scouting for NE in '08. In '09 he became an assistant with no positional coaching duties. That means he was a gopher. It wasn't until '11 that he was named TE coach and he did that for 1 season, with both of the TE's at the time being pro-bowl caliber TE's, which would be hard to screw up. So, you can overstate his importance to the Patriots and exaggerate what he learned from them all you want.

Regarding two 1000 yard rushers; how is that all Brian's credit? Greg Davis called all the plays, didn't he? AW and LD ran the ball, didn't they? But, since you want to give the run game coordinator all the credit for the running game, I have a question for you. Do you think kirk should hire a pass game coordinator to help the passing game? I'm sure you understand that it was the passing game that prevented this team from winning 10 games this season.

Note: Hayden Fry almost did it with Harmon and Gill, with one game less, and that was with a pass first offense. The critical thinker would ask why it took kirk ferentz 18 seasons to get the first dual 1000 yard rushers; since this is a run first offense. We finished 6th in the B1G in rushing yards per game (conf only). OSU finished 1st with more than 550 more yards that us. Perspective, Clinton...perspective.

HF was never pass first. It was a myth.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

HF was never pass first. It was a myth.

I guess i'd ask the two chucks about that.

 

[HawkGold]

I guess i'd ask the two chucks about that.

Or Ronnie Harmon or Tavian Banks.

 

[OkstHawk]

Just to prove you wrong, there are more than a few offensive coordinators in P5 conferences that have less experience coaching than Brian.

Current Power 5 Offensive Coordinators with little experience: (In no particular order)
1. Thomas Brown - Miami (3 years RB coach for 3 different schools, 1 year strength & conditioning at a 4th school)
2. Brian Ferentz - Iowa (2 years TE coach for NE Patriots, 4 years OL coach at Iowa)
3. Sonnie Cumbie - TCU (2 years WR coach at Texas Tech, 1 year co-OC at Texas Tech)
4. Eric Morris - Texas Tech (1 year WR coach as Wash St, 1 year co-OC at Texas Tech, 2 years OC at TT)
5. Jake Spavital - W Virginia (2 years QB coach at WVa, 3 years OC at Texas A&M, 1 year OC at Cal)
6. Brian Brohm - Purdue (1 year QB coach at W Kentucky)
7. Chip Long - Notre Dame (2 years TE coach at Illinois, 3 years TE coach at Arizona St, 1 year OC at Memphis)

Even though Notre Dame isn't in a P5 conference for football, I thought I'd include them since football is a real big deal there.

This is just a list of CURRENT offensive coordinators that I could click links within Wikipedia. There are currently 3 vacant offensive coordinator positions in the P5 conferences and there are 25 offensive coordinators who did not have any Wikipedia page for any of a number of reasons.

One thing of note: Chuck Long had 7 years experience before becoming OC for Oklahoma, and 3 years were as a DB coach at Iowa.

There are only three people on this list who weren't at least co-oc. That kind of matters.

 

[deanvogs]

Brian was in scouting for NE in '08. In '09 he became an assistant with no positional coaching duties. That means he was a gopher. It wasn't until '11 that he was named TE coach and he did that for 1 season, with both of the TE's at the time being pro-bowl caliber TE's, which would be hard to screw up. So, you can overstate his importance to the Patriots and exaggerate what he learned from them all you want.

Regarding two 1000 yard rushers; how is that all Brian's credit? Greg Davis called all the plays, didn't he? AW and LD ran the ball, didn't they? But, since you want to give the run game coordinator all the credit for the running game, I have a question for you. Do you think kirk should hire a pass game coordinator to help the passing game? I'm sure you understand that it was the passing game that prevented this team from winning 10 games this season.

Note: Hayden Fry almost did it with Harmon and Gill, with one game less, and that was with a pass first offense. The critical thinker would ask why it took kirk ferentz 18 seasons to get the first dual 1000 yard rushers; since this is a run first offense. We finished 6th in the B1G in rushing yards per game (conf only). OSU finished 1st with more than 550 more yards that us. Perspective, Clinton...perspective.

Iowa played 13 games in 1984 (not one less) when Harmon and Gill ran for 920 and 907 yards (1,827). Not only that but it took them 389 carries to get those 1827 yards. The Iowa RB this year amassed 2,139 yards in 13 games on 381 carries. Also Iowa most certainly was NOT a pass first team under Hayden as Gold said. In 1984 Iowa rushed the ball 503 times and passed it 348 times

Second of all what are you smoking when saying that working your way up from a coffee fetcher to coaching 2 stud TE is NOT a great job by the coach? Also he was the assistant TE coach in '10 and then took over TE full time in 2011. In 2009 NE didn't even have Gronk or Hernandez, they were both drafted in '10 when Brian became assistant TE coach. Not only that, but you get two rookie TE to come into the league and both start producing immediately. They had 45 and 42 receptions their rookie years. Then Brian takes over as the full time TE coach in '11. That is when the New England TE became the weapon that we all remember. That year Gronk caught 90 passes for 1300+ yards and Hernandez hauled in 79 catches for 900+ yards. So basically under Brian the TE were drafted, and developed into huge parts of New England's offense. Hernandez and Gronk never again produced those big of number either receptions or yards.

I get many on here want to bag on everything Ferentz. Yet if this were anyone with any other last name, this board would be happy that a young guy, that is this much of a fast riser was going to take over at OC.

 

[hagarwood]

Brian was in scouting for NE in '08. In '09 he became an assistant with no positional coaching duties. That means he was a gopher. It wasn't until '11 that he was named TE coach and he did that for 1 season, with both of the TE's at the time being pro-bowl caliber TE's, which would be hard to screw up. So, you can overstate his importance to the Patriots and exaggerate what he learned from them all you want.

Regarding two 1000 yard rushers; how is that all Brian's credit? Greg Davis called all the plays, didn't he? AW and LD ran the ball, didn't they? But, since you want to give the run game coordinator all the credit for the running game, I have a question for you. Do you think kirk should hire a pass game coordinator to help the passing game? I'm sure you understand that it was the passing game that prevented this team from winning 10 games this season.

Note: Hayden Fry almost did it with Harmon and Gill, with one game less, and that was with a pass first offense. The critical thinker would ask why it took kirk ferentz 18 seasons to get the first dual 1000 yard rushers; since this is a run first offense. We finished 6th in the B1G in rushing yards per game (conf only). OSU finished 1st with more than 550 more yards that us. Perspective, Clinton...perspective.

It is too bad that you come on here with all this misleading partially accurate and inaccurate crap to criticize a real Hawkeye fan like ClintonIAfan. You owe an apology to Clinton for making up this misleading garbage. Makes you look like a cyclone troll when you do this,

 

[HomerChampless]

Congratulations on your resume. Still doesn't change anything about a lucky win being gifted to the Hawks. Contrary to what you think, I'm not anti Hawkeyes, and I hate when they lose. But I won't call obviously mediocre football good football for the sake of being a fan, especially with the size of the budget and paychecks cashed by the staff. That my friend is for homers.

Iowa homers or KF homers? I definitely think there's a difference.

 

[HuckFinn]

Congratulations on your resume. Still doesn't change anything about a lucky win being gifted to the Hawks. Contrary to what you think, I'm not anti Hawkeyes, and I hate when they lose. But I won't call obviously mediocre football good football for the sake of being a fan, especially with the size of the budget and paychecks cashed by the staff. That my friend is for homers.

A resume' is usually used to apply for a job. I am happily retired, so no need. You sound a bit defensive. Do you have a background or some experience as to the game of football? Just wanted you to know that I have great respect for the game.