iloveyoularrystation
Well-Known Member
Look here's the reality. We didn't win the National Title and we ended up having a mediocre record with what we thought and may still believe and may be the single most talented team at every position in the ferentz era. We lost a ton of close games. Sash and Clayborn had season long injuries they played through, our linebacking core was decimated, and we didn't win the national title. This year our dline is atrocious and the coaching staff has made poor decisions, and for some reason our coaches and announcers are the only people on the planet earth surprised by fake punts, fake field goals, onside kicks, and everything else. The last 16 games have been mediocre at best record wise. Nobody was complaining about all the close games we played when we won them, now were losing them, and guess what that happens. There are a lot of good arguments but seriously the Ferentz is overpaid one is just tired and ridiculous. So what. He was able to talk them into a 4 million dollar salary cause they were afraid he'd go to the nfl and leave the program, God bless him for making some money. Has he earned it, yes he has. Cause guess what, the athletic director and president at the university of iowa look at his worth to the program as a heck of a lot more than win-loss record to minnesota, and i'm glad they do. They look in totality at things like win-loss record, graduation rate of players, AMOUNT OF MONEY THE PROGRAM MAKES FOR THE UNIVERSITY, how much the football program helps out financially the athletic department as a whole. He's really good at some of those other things and he gets our team to a place where we can be upset over not winning a national title or big ten title. We support a team in IOWA, that has three college football programs that draw interest from kids from our state and surrounding states (UI, ISU, UNI). The reality is that there are a lot of coaches who are better on gameday during the game than our coaching staff but for what is required to win consistently at the university of iowa there is no better coach than we could have. He gets kids to come play and wins at a school that based on recruiting situation should legitimately probably go 4-8 every year. We consistently win more than we lose. No one is more upset about the past two years than I am but to come on any forum and say the coach is overpaid shows you don't know what goes into his paycheck, and coming on saying he should be fired says you don't know what it takes to consistently win at iowa or have a legit expectation for where we play football. No one is better at finding kids and turning them into something than this staff in the nation, period, and thats what you have to do to win consistently at iowa. I think its legit to think we should be in the big ten title picture 7 out of 10 years, in the picture. I think its legit to hope for a national title run, run, once every 10, and we should expect to be in the top half of the big ten every year. Some of the things we hoped for didn't pan out, guess what, it happens. I wanted to wake up skinny and good looking this morning, Disappointment abounds.
