KF on Dan Patrick Show 9/30

[DuffMan]

I really think he's going to coach here as long as Hayden did, then might stay on as consultant to help the new guy.

 

[imported_ankle23]

I thought it was interesting that Kirk said he wouldn't shut the door on coaching into his 70's.....he said definitely no about into his 80's. How cool would that be to have Kirk still on the Iowa sidelines 15 years from now!

ask me 15 years from now.

 

[Jeebus]

I know it will never happen but wouldn't it be cool, if just one time, Kirk said:

"yeah we're really good"

 

[hoffahawk]

ask me 15 years from now.

exactly, I think everybody including Hayden will say/have said that he stayed a few years too long.

 

[kjvo23]

Here's the podcast for those interested:

Dan Patrick Show On Demand, Podcasts - Dan Patrick.com

 

[Blackhawk33]

I know it will never happen but wouldn't it be cool, if just one time, Kirk said:

"yeah we're really good"

Yes, that would be awesome!
Until word got back to his players that he now thinks they're hot to trot, and suddenly guys don't quite practice as hard, because, "damn it, we're good, and we know we're good," and suddenly 6 Seconds of Hell becomes 2 Seconds of Hell and 4 Seconds of Thinking About How Good We Are, and they lose to somebody like Iowa State, because Iowa State knew how good they weren't and how good Iowa thought they were, and played just little bit harder that day.

 

[Rawkhawk73]

exactly, I think everybody including Hayden will say/have said that he stayed a few years too long.

With all due respect, that's bullcrap.

There were two reasons why Hayden's last 2 years sucked:

1. His staff sucked. Hayden's greatest success occurred when he had a great staff to lean on. In college football, you have to pick one of two directions. Either A)have top notch assistants that want to and have the ability to be head coaches and when they leave, replace them with top notch assistants that want to and have the ability to be head coaches or B)have continuity of quality staff. You can't have a revolving door of crappy assistants which is what happened to Hayden.

2. He got cancer.

It's pretty hard to lean on crappy assistants to do a lot of the detail work while you go get chemo treatments and still field a competitive football team. Hayden had a great team in 1996 that blew the doors off the co-Pac 10 champs. We had a chance at some pretty special things in 1997, but injuries and a poor kicking game doomed us. Then the wheels obviously fell off in 1998.

But to suggest he stayed a few years too long is wrong, in my opinion.