Jeff Brohm

smitharooney said:
You are seriously smoking some tainted ditchweed if you don’t think this is good for Iowa . This guy abused us two years in a row. You think Hayden cared if the Iowa ST. rivalry was a good rivalry?You think he cared if it benefited the state? He wanted them to be so bad so he could play his 3rd stringers by the second quarter. You never want teams you are competing with for recruits to be good. If you do you have no concept of competition. In a pendulum somebody has to be up and somebody has to be down. We want Iowa to be down? We actually want the other 13 teams in the league to totally suck. That way Ferentz can accomplish something Hayden did 3 times. Win this league outright . Worrying about the perception of our league? You can’t control that, only thing the Hawks can control is what happens on the field.
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I get the thought process. You are what the schedule is. With a low end schedule playing the bottom teams you will climate to that type of schedule. This is why Iowa has lost the last three games. If those teams were Rutgers, Illinois and UNI, Iowa would have won and everyone would have their head in the sand thinking the Hawks are back. AAU teams play up to prepare them for the tougher schedule.
 


uihawk82 said:
Yeah the replays of this years Purdue game especially from the end zone showed exactly how Brohm and OC attacked our safeties with receivers to get other one on one matchups. I mean this is basic passing game progression and planning but BF and KF hardly ever get receivers deep enough to tie up a safety.
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IIRC, Purdue beat Iowa last year on 2 plays where they exploited the weakest corner in man coverage. They also ran a 3-4 defense where they alternated the LB who would rush and our line was more lost than Helen Keller in an empty forest trying to block it. It was really good coaching.
 


HawkPrdatr40 said:
He better stay at Purdue now, what’s the point of saying this if you aren’t now totally committed to Purdue. He will look like an ass if he accepts this Louisville position now or even 3 months from now, just my take.
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People who’d work for Louisville by definition don’t care if people think they’re assholes. Because they’re usually assholes.
 




HawkPrdatr40 said:
He better stay at Purdue now, what’s the point of saying this if you aren’t now totally committed to Purdue. He will look like an ass if he accepts this Louisville position now or even 3 months from now, just my take.
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The guy was one foot out the door last yr. Remember he took the TN job during their whole fiasco of a coaching search before their fan base didn't want him either and he stayed. He's not married to Purdue that job was always going to be a stepping stone for him.
 




Frost and Herman both said something similar regarding their departures. It's really bad form to announce such a thing with 2 games left plus a bowl game. Still would not be surprised at all for Brohm to take off after the regular season or the bowl game.
 


Hawkfnntn said:
The guy was one foot out the door last yr. Remember he took the TN job during their whole fiasco of a coaching search before their fan base didn't want him either and he stayed. He's not married to Purdue that job was always going to be a stepping stone for him.
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I Forgot about that.
 


I have been advised by my office's southeast region recruiting guru that the reason Moore ended up at Purdue is that his test scores were late coming in and he was a late qualifier, so while he had a lot of interest from top tier programs and clearly deserves a spot on a team that will be a title contender, by the time he qualified those programs did not have any slots open and he wound up at Purdue after decommitting from Texas. So I apologize for my earlier implication.
 


HawkPrdatr40 said:
I Forgot about that.
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Yeah. I know Louisville is home and all that but him taking that kinda surprises me. That place is not in the shape it was even 3 or 4 yrs ago it's just not. I figured he was looking to jump up to a more high profile gig. This seems sideways at best...
 


Hawkfnntn said:
Yeah. I know Louisville is home and all that but him taking that kinda surprises me. That place is not in the shape it was even 3 or 4 yrs ago it's just not. I figured he was looking to jump up to a more high profile gig. This seems sideways at best...
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Yeah, Louisville is a good example of a program tanking after losing a good coach. Seeing falls like theirs always makes me willing to tolerate another year of Kurtball.
 


okeefe4prez said:
I remember one time being in an extremely hungover state, perhaps it was January 1, 2005 and the Iowa level bowl games were on early in the morning. I swear I heard one of the commentators in the pre-game say "This will be Kirk Ferentz's last game with Iowa because he will be announced as the Jaguars new head coach" or something along those lines. There is a race to break a story and if it's just one guy saying it, it might still happen but terms probably haven't been finalized yet or whatever. He might also have Ferentz's agent and is trying to get a raise.
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Whenever Iowa has a great season, you know that Neil Cornrich (Kirk Ferentz's agent) is going to the University to ask for more money and an extension.
And, the lap dog that Gary Barta, will roll over and give out another 10-year extension, like candy.

We saw this in 2005, 2009 and 2015.

It's a long tired act, that averages out to mediocrity over a long period.
You play 3 or 4 tomato cans out of conference and finish .500 in the Big Ten.

That's not all.
Since 2011, you don't have to play Michigan, Penn State, Michigan State and Ohio State, every year?

Best thing Iowa football has now is Balki Bartokomous as our Defensive Coordinator.
 






okeefe4prez said:
Yeah, Louisville is a good example of a program tanking after losing a good coach. Seeing falls like theirs always makes me willing to tolerate another year of Kurtball.
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No doubt. It's been said a bunch of times by others and it certainly still stands. Iowa is a bad coaching hire away from being a cellar dweller. We just are and that's the truth.
 


Hawkfnntn said:
No doubt. It's been said a bunch of times by others and it certainly still stands. Iowa is a bad coaching hire away from being a cellar dweller. We just are and that's the truth.
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I can think of two really stunning success stories: Dabo and Nick. But the programs that have tanked are:

Tennessee
Texas
Louisville
Michigan (RichRod era)
Florida State
Florida post-Urban
Oregon

Those are some high flyers, I'm sure there are others, particularly lower tier programs trying to claw up. The SEC coaches turn over every few years it seems.
 


okeefe4prez said:
I can think of two really stunning success stories: Dabo and Nick. But the programs that have tanked are:

Tennessee
Texas
Louisville
Michigan (RichRod era)
Florida State
Florida post-Urban
Oregon

Those are some high flyers, I'm sure there are others, particularly lower tier programs trying to claw up. The SEC coaches turn over every few years it seems.
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I'd kick Little Lick to the curb as OC and bring in RichRod.
 






hawkeyes87 said:
Successes Stanford, OU, UGA... Wisconsin (multiple times)
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I'll give you Stanford, though they're in the middle of a recruiting hotbed.

OU and UGA? No. Both of those programs had 1-2 years of irrelevance (ie 9-3 by their standards) followed by a "turn around that took advantage of the tradition and recruiting advantages they already possessed.

Wisconsin has nothing to do with the coaches they hire and everything to do with Barry Alvarez.

Kirk certainly is frustrating and has many flaws, but look at it this way:

Who do you trust more, Kirk in righting the ship, or Barta in full control of hiring a successor?

The latter absolutely terrifies me.
 


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