If Barta was any kind of AD he would do this....

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HaydensHawk

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Contact Brett Beliema and informally offer him the head coaching position. If he shows serious interest, then you fire Ferentz. If he doesn't, then you keep Ferentz conditionally. Barta has never had the upperhand negotiating with Ferentz until now. I know it isn't an AD's position to influence personnel decisions, but he needs to do something with the QB decision. We can't afford to lose another QB that is going to go off somewhere else. I think CJ has an NFL toolset and attitude. He will be a dream for any other team out there.

Can you imagine what Beliema could have done with this years team and schedule?. Iowa HAS plenty of talent, but it is just being shackled.
 
Barta is the director of athletics and a former national championship QB so he knows more about quarterbacking than KF and GD combined. I see no reason why GB and KF cant have a talk about personnel and the QB position all during the season.
 
HaydensHawk said:
Contact Brett Beliema and informally offer him the head coaching position. If he shows serious interest, then you fire Ferentz. If he doesn't, then you keep Ferentz conditionally. Barta has never had the upperhand negotiating with Ferentz until now. I know it isn't an AD's position to influence personnel decisions, but he needs to do something with the QB decision. We can't afford to lose another QB that is going to go off somewhere else. I think CJ has an NFL toolset and attitude. He will be a dream for any other team out there.

Can you imagine what Beliema could have done with this years team and schedule?. Iowa HAS plenty of talent, but it is just being shackled.
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I think you can contact BB's agent or ask Arkansas for permission to talk to BB. But when the word gets out that is the either the big slap to KF or it might wake him up.
 
HaydensHawk said:
Contact Brett Beliema and informally offer him the head coaching position. If he shows serious interest, then you fire Ferentz. If he doesn't, then you keep Ferentz conditionally. Barta has never had the upperhand negotiating with Ferentz until now. I know it isn't an AD's position to influence personnel decisions, but he needs to do something with the QB decision. We can't afford to lose another QB that is going to go off somewhere else. I think CJ has an NFL toolset and attitude. He will be a dream for any other team out there.

Can you imagine what Beliema could have done with this years team and schedule?. Iowa HAS plenty of talent, but it is just being shackled.
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Beliema will not leave an SEC team to coach at Iowa period. You don't leave a program like that to come here regardless of how many Hawkeye tattoos you have. Ferentz will never be fired but when he leaves we will get a MAC coach or a young buck coordinator.
There are no Urban Meyers waiting to rebuild a program like Iowa.
 
I would make sure word gets out that you are looking at other coaches, make sure Kurt knows it. Jimmy Sexton made Kurt a lot of money by getting his name mentioned for pretty much every NFL opening a decade ago. Hopefully it pissess him off enough to leave, but there's no way it would make things worse.
 
Why in the world would BB leave an SEC school to come to Iowa?

i mean he left a better gig than Iowa is to go to Ark.
 
Beliema is not coming to Iowa. That would be like leaving the head chef job at a 5 star restaurant to be the head fry cook at McDonalds.
 
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5524838



"I've said publicly, and privately to Kirk, that it would be my goal to have him retire at Iowa," Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said in a statement. "This contract is a statement supporting that commitment."



"Kirk is arguably the best football coach in the country," Barta said. "Beyond that, he and his wife, Mary, are world-class people who care deeply about the university and the state."


 
ibahawkeye said:
Why in the world would BB leave an SEC school to come to Iowa?

i mean he left a better gig than Iowa is to go to Ark.
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Because Arkansas is a hole and BB is a Hawk. Iowa is a good program and can pay the money. I believe BB can take us to a championship level.
 
There are many branches on Hayden's coaching tree. I'd be in favor of any of them who'd come in here with an attitude and hungry for Iowa to be a top-level program in the B1G year in year out. KF is hungry no more. That fire has long gone out.
 
I don't know if it's still in there, but didn't Bobby Stoops have it in his contract that he could get out of it if Iowa ever came knocking? Perhaps BB has something similar. Anyone know?
 
Black-and-gold googles cast aside, Iowa is, in fact, a better job than Arkansas.

Biggest negative is dearth of in-state talent. But everything else is a major positive. Besides Benddontbreak's list, this might be the most patient program in the country. The pressure to win is nowhere near that of most SEC or even Big 12 schools, and that's a huge positive for a coach, knowing he'll be given time.
 
ColoradoHAWKEYE said:
I don't know if it's still in there, but didn't Bobby Stoops have it in his contract that he could get out of it if Iowa ever came knocking? Perhaps BB has something similar. Anyone know?
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Here is Bret Bielema's contract: http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/public/ab-Bret-Bielema-Contract.PDF


  • $2.95 million per year salary (an additional $250K is paid, via the Razorback Foundation),
    Contract is from 12/4/2012 to 12/31/2018
  • $12.8 million buyout in the first three years of the contract
  • $9.6 million buyout in year four
  • $6.4 million buyout in year five
  • $3.2 million buyout in year six

    We have to pay Kirk's buyout, around $11.4 million, then pay Bret's buyout for $12.8 million, before Iowa, even commits a penny to the coaching staff.

    Kinnick ticket sales in 2011 were $$23,180,905, and the buyout per year is $2,629,704, so if the ticket revenue went down by $2.6 million (or about 11%), then the heat would be on to make a change.

    It would be a hit to pay off $2.6 million a year, but not as much as losing the fans.
  • The same scenario happened with Lickliter, although on a smaller scale.
  • Iowa paid him $800,000 a year to go away, and that was because Carver had become a ghost town (it was down to something like 4000-5000 fans a game).
 
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