franstheman
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next year or the next year when iowa is 10-2 or better again everyone will think ferentz is a hero and a great coach.
just wait..
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franstheman
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HawkPhreek
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If you think Ferentz is a GREAT coach your are clueless. Kirk is a better manager than coach. Great coaches with the same staff don't have sup par seasons. They don't go 7-5 Kirk had a good stretch, but not a great coach.
Tons of great coaches have gone 7-5. Bob Stoops went 7 and 5 last year (before their bowl) with arguably equal to better talent than Iowa had this year. It happens.
ChosenChildren
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Some great coaches even go 5-7. Ever heard of Mack Brown?
I wouldn't go as far as saying the guy is a great coach. I would say he is pretty good. He is 10 games above .500 in his career in B10 play. Tough for me to call a coach great with that record.
He is probably the best Iowa can get so I can live with it. I don't like his salary but the alternative of letting him go and watching the FB program crippled like the BB program is not something I would like to take a chance at.
Imlivingthedream
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a great coach doesnt take a knee at OSU last year.
PatrickAdamovicz
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Not saying that I want Kirk gone, but if you think there wouldn't be a line of some very viable names to come coach at Iowa....well, I disagree. Packed, newly renovated stadium, new facilities on the way and oh yeah, that little thing of being able to pay the head coach around 3.5 million. Trust me, there would be plenty of coaches. This isn't basketball where Iowa had a limited budget to throw at coaches and crappy facilities.
tm3308
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We'd get a long line of good coaches. Likely not any better than Ferentz. Bob Stoops, Nick Saban, Jim Harbaugh, etc. are not going to be lining up.
Now, in regards to the OP: where have you been for the last month? There hasn't been any b*tching for some time now. Even ThunderHawk has given it a rest. This is one of the most random posts I've ever seen. Yes, the sentiment is true. But why post it now? Should people start posting that the KKK is nothing but a bunch of racists, and that their views are not even worth acknowledment? After all, it is true, even if there's currently no pretext making it necessary to state it.
okeefe4prez
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The LSU Capital One Bowl just called. And so did Purdue 2002. Look, Iowa isn't going to practice the 2 minute drill because they don't have enough time in practice to do so, they're better off worrying about the fundamentals and exercising dominance over opponents in the first 58 minutes so the final 2 minutes are irrelevant. In some circumstances in some games, it has looked like clock management would need to be tigtened up, but given how rare a successful two minute drive is, I don't think we should even practice it.
MoseSchrute
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Sarcasm, I hope.
seepig
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Stop the presses O4prez knows something that the entire football viewing and coaching world doesn't. Forget the 2 minute drill boyz and girlz! Tell that to Chizek and Chip Kelly. Yeah we exercised dominance 3 of the last 6 years all right. Lemme see we where 6-6 Alamo Bowl, 6-6 No Bowl, and 7-5 Insight Bowl...oh and yeah we really exercised dominance over a hapless Indiana team and if their WR wouldv'e caught that easy pass we'd be looking at 6-6 again. So you are referring to 2 hail Mary pass plays as evidence we don't need a 2 minute drill....I like my 3 season example as better proof.
tm3308
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I know your casting bait, but I'll bite it to discourage others from actually believing those first two sentences. The Cap One Bowl drive was a giant clusterf*ck. We got lucky, plain and simple. Half the yardage against Purdue in that drive were made up by Banks' QB draw (Great call there, I admit, but it eliminated the "drive" aspect and turned it into a quick-strike. It wasn't really a 2-minute drill.)
okeefe4prez
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If we had unlimited practice time, a two minute drill would be great, but we don't, so O'Keefe works on the things we need to do be strong the other 58 minutes of the game. And there have been plenty of times where O'Keefe has done everything necessary to win games in that he has us in the lead with time winding down, but the D chokes games away.
Two minute drills are rarely successful and if you regularly rely on them to win, you're simply not going to have a good record if you run a pro set, ball control offense like Iowa. Thankfully our staff knows that. But the thing is that if you look at Iowa's defense, it is notorious for folding in the two minute drill and that skews Hawk fans' perceptions of the success of the two minute offense. It's just that last year the D finally didn't gag in the clutch and the offense executed one two minute drill to precision and a bunch of idiot fans thought that in this day and age of parity we had some really super special team this year notwithstanding the fact we lost some serious studs to the NFL.
Iowa's two minute drill is fine, it's a little unorthodox, but it draws on plays that we normally run and has O'Keefe calling them in from the sideline. The staff is dealing with football players, many of whom aren't necessarily the smartest guys on campus, the more plays you have in the playbook, the greater the chance for mental mistakes like sacks, false starts, illegal shifts, etc. Sometimes that philosophy works, sometimes it doesn't. This year it didn't work out and Iowa was a little down, but that's the nature of the game given how evenly matched many of the teams are. Iowa simply can't expect to beat Northwestern just by showing up at the field anymore.
