Jon - please tell me this came out differently than it was typed

BSpringsteen

BSpringsteen

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They help you play better or worse...have not reinvted our system because of them..each year you have strengths and hope system plays to your strengths.

Because if that is actually what is said, I need to call a whambulence because I am about to pound my head against the wall.
 


Bspringsteen:

When I saw your post I thought you were referring to the part in presser where Kirk is discussing Norm's involvement in last week's game:

"Norm's involvement is minimal. Norm has one foot in the water, but he is not swimming yet."

I about fell over.
 


Dont take that as the verbatim...I am trying to type as he talks and keep up..the transcript will be on the site here in a bit and i will post that part here
 




BSpringsteen said:
They help you play better or worse...have not reinvted our system because of them..each year you have strengths and hope system plays to your strengths.

Because if that is actually what is said, I need to call a whambulence because I am about to pound my head against the wall.
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Yeah...that's kind of a glaring logic fail by KF.
 


Here is the transcript:

Q: The quality of those players, does that dictate what you want to do and can do on defense?

COACH FERENTZ: Well, I mean, they help you play better, they help you play worse. It’s not like we’ve reinvented our system or anything like that because of them. Every year you have more experience, your strengths shift, what you have. Hopefully your system accentuates what you have.

That's a little better but not by much. I now have a head wound.
 


BSpringsteen said:
Here is the transcript:

Q: The quality of those players, does that dictate what you want to do and can do on defense?

COACH FERENTZ: Well, I mean, they help you play better, they help you play worse. It’s not like we’ve reinvented our system or anything like that because of them. Every year you have more experience, your strengths shift, what you have. Hopefully your system accentuates what you have.

That's a little better but not by much. I now have a head wound.
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I don't like the way that sounds, either. That sounds like we don't make shifts in our philosophy to suit our strengths on defense, and we just stick with it. When the right players are in place, it's great. When they're not?.....(See Klink matched up on Bates)
 


There was the foot in the water quote, mentioned earlier, but there were also these quotes.

Q. What does Adam Robinson have to do, how good can he become from here?
COACH FERENTZ: He just has to keep his foot on the gas, which I think he’s done.

Jon Miller chat: question asked of Ferentz by reporter

deefnsive personel...the front four or front six, that group...your best foot forward in any game because of what they have done
 


Q. The quality of those players, does that dictate what you want to do and can do on defense?

COACH FERENTZ: They help you play better, they help you play worse. It’s not like we’ve reinvented our system or anything like that because of them. Every year you have more experience, your strengths shift, what you have. Hopefully your system accentuates what you have.
 






I didn't get anything negative from reading that. I think he was trying to say that they're not going to change what they do schematically because of certain players. We've obviously seen KF use guys both offensively and defensively in different ways, but their standards haven't changed.

People have to realize you take the good with the bad. It's just how things have worked out. Iowa will most likely go into the bowl game against a team they are truly head and shoulders above. In the past few years just about every loss is within 7 pts. You can't ask for much more than that as a coach.
 


Translation: When you have Chad Greenway or AJ Edds you can cover WRs with LBs. When you don't, like KF said "Norm looks like an idiot".
 




I understand that we try to stick to our philosophy. But when the players just aren't there to execute it as well, why do we not adjust the schemes some to make up the difference?
 


I would think you have to adjust to the players that you have; not just stick to the same 'ol and hope it works out? Good god!
 


I can't wait until we beat Ohio St Saturday and then all of you ******** about our coaches this week will go back to saying how they are the best in the nation again. Thankfully KF keeps things on an even keel, unlike the majority of the Iowa fan base.
 


I just wish there was a college football program out there somewhere that was smart enough to hire some of these posters as coaches. My god, they'd never lose! Every Hawkeye play would go for a touchdown, and every play by the opposing offense would be stopped for a loss. They'd have to bring the '50 point rule' to college football.
 


HT -

Your snarkiness aside, I don't think it is armchair coaching to be concerned that a football coach basically said it is the players job to fit into the scheme rather than the schemes job to fit to the players.

When our LB's are fast and can cover WR, the scheme is ingenious. When they are green or not as fast, we get exposed bad.
 


BSpringsteen said:
Here is the transcript:

Q: The quality of those players, does that dictate what you want to do and can do on defense?

COACH FERENTZ: Well, I mean, they help you play better, they help you play worse. It’s not like we’ve reinvented our system or anything like that because of them. Every year you have more experience, your strengths shift, what you have. Hopefully your system accentuates what you have.

That's a little better but not by much. I now have a head wound.
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My impression is that they are recruiting guys that they believe will fit into their system, so there isn't much tweaking going to be needed. For example, they're not regularly recruiting a Denard Robinson type at QB. I think it's a tempest in a teapot, because it's not going to come up that often. I think it's probably more common that guys they recruit don't pan out the way they'd have hoped, so they have to fill the spot with someone else. They know who they want and how they'll fit - they don't need to reinvent the system for players. At Iowa, the dog still wags the tail.
 


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