KF abrupt Retirement

STLhawkeye20 said:
Nope, don't buy it. I'm a shareholder of numerous companies, and I want my CEOs to maximize the company's potential. Who gives a **** whether my CEO is running the company better than Wells Fargo's or Walmart or the local barber shop down the street. I hate the argument that "well at least we're not Purdue or ISU" because there is wasted potential in terms of Iowa. Purdue's coaching staff does not matter one iota in evaluating KF's performance.

Last year we found oil underneath our property and our leading competitors happened to have a rough year. That's the explanation for our success, not some hidden KF genius surfacing.

By any other standards-whether you're talking about the CEO of a company, an pro football coach or a college football coach-any other coach would have been fired.
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With a great and affluent fan base (Law and Med school alums et al), top-notch facilities, playing in at least the second best conf in the world, and alotting 5 mil a year for a coach, why the heII can't we recruit athletes. And to think Les Miles is out there and we could thru a $50 contract at him...
 
When you have nothing to lose you lose your edge. You lose perspective on what you are there for and you aren't motivated by fear of failure anymore. Human nature....you lose all this and you lose games, recruits you name it. I posted the Is KF Worth It Thread and not one financial person can honestly look at he and his staff's performance over the past 4 years and determine that he is worth what we are paying and will pay him before he retires. Perhaps the best thing is for the win total to just absolutely crater.
 
hawkinn3 said:
Every penny, he's getting every penny owed to him. He could go 0-12 the next 10 years and he won't leave.
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Not only that...but all the family members who get free money from the university with their cushy jobs. I once thought that he was a good person. Now even though he's made more money then he could spend in ten lifetimes I doubt he'll retire. He'll just stay here another ten years and take all the money he can.
 
ghawk407 said:
remember joepa walking the sidelines as the coach at eighty something? is that what we are in for?
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I have no issue with an older coach. I'd take Bobby Bowden in a heartbeat. KF has been largely boring from the beginning.

As far as JoePa, the guy just wasn't a good guy with mental issues. I know a lot of WW2 vets who up until just a few years ago you wouldn't want to mess with.
 
Our offense has become the definition of insanity as we do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Kirk makes no change, its on Kirk...which shows me he really doesn't give a rip because he is not making that change.
 
koralakers said:
With a great and affluent fan base (Law and Med school alums et al), top-notch facilities, playing in at least the second best conf in the world, and alotting 5 mil a year for a coach, why the heII can't we recruit athletes. And to think Les Miles is out there and we could thru a $50 contract at him...
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And Les didn't just get canned for running predictable plays. I am sure he would be "Les" predictable if he just coached at Iowa.

And oh yeah, Les just lost to Wisconsin this year also.
 
BQuastU said:
you people are morons. KF has built the program into a huge success on and off the field. he's less than a year away from 2 plays (the TD was on third down) and a few inches from the College Football Playoff; and the consolation prize was the Rose Bowl. Five years ago, something similar happened with Delano Hill (could be messing up the name) when he bailed for Michigan. Could be wrong, but didn't that result in Desmond King getting an offer (never confirmed whether this sequence is actually true)?

the personal attacks always start when the losses come.

the coach is worth every penny. the people at Illinois and Purdue and a bunch of other schools around the country with revolving coaching doors would agree.
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Hayden Fry built the Iowa program, not Kirk Ferentz. Hayden went 143-89-6 overall and 96-61-5 in conference during his 20 years at Iowa. Just to compare, KF has been at Iowa now 18 years. He is 132-90 overall and 80-63 in conference. For those of you that are mathematically challenged, Fry was statistically better than KF in both overall and conference records. When Hayden Fry arrived at Iowa, we had endured 19 years straight of non-winning seasons. Basically Fry inherited a dumpster fire.

During Haydens years here, we finished rank in the FINAL top 20 rankings 10 years (50% of the time). During KFs reign of mediocrity, Iowa has finished ranked in the FINAL top 20 just 6 times (33%).

At no time during Fry's tenure while at Iowa was he paid like KF is today.
 
hawkeye12345 said:
Hayden Fry built the Iowa program, not Kirk Ferentz. Hayden went 143-89-6 overall and 96-61-5 in conference during his 20 years at Iowa. Just to compare, KF has been at Iowa now 18 years. He is 132-90 overall and 80-63 in conference. For those of you that are mathematically challenged, Fry was statistically better than KF in both overall and conference records. When Hayden Fry arrived at Iowa, we had endured 19 years straight of non-winning seasons. Basically Fry inherited a dumpster fire.

During Haydens years here, we finished rank in the FINAL top 20 rankings 10 years (50% of the time). During KFs reign of mediocrity, Iowa has finished ranked in the FINAL top 20 just 6 times (33%).

At no time during Fry's tenure while at Iowa was he paid like KF is today.
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plus he played to win..........
 
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