Kirk Ferentz- Same As He Ever Was

[CJSHawk]

I understand the frustration with our head coach, but these frustrations are nothing new. As long as he's our head coach you can expect the following:

1. A class act

2. Horrible clock management

3. A team that plays it's best football in November and usually beats a team they probably shouldn't.

4. A team that plays it's worst football in September and usually loses to a team they probably shouldn't.

5. Good defense

6. Ridiculously conservative/predictable offenses that make you want to tear your hair out.

7. Bowl games most years

8. Punting inside the opponents 35 yard line

9. Running plays into 8/9 man defensive fronts

10. LBs covering WRs

11. Zero issues with the NCAA

This is Iowa football under Kirk Ferentz. Always has been, always will be!!!

 

[1hawkeye1]

Always will be? Always? Plz God.....nooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[NCHawker]

Somehow I think he's in new territory this year.

 

[PCHawk]

Why do we never have a wide reciever running across the middle of the field with a linebacker four steps behind?

 

[Saginawbay]

OP is right!!

 

[CJSHawk]

Somehow I think he's in new territory this year.

How so?

Clock management has always been bad. Remember the horrible clock management at the end of the 2005 Cap One Bowl? Ferentz was bailed out by Tate to Holloway.

Iowa offenses have always been mediocre to bad under Ferentz regardless of the offensive coordinator.

My point is as long as Ferentz is the head coach certain things are not going to change, and I think it has a lot to do with Iowa's attendance issues.

 

[pekurhawk]

according to David Byrne

 

[NCHawker]

How so?

Clock management has always been bad. Remember the horrible clock management at the end of the 2005 Cap One Bowl? Ferentz was bailed out by Tate to Holloway.

Iowa offenses have always been mediocre to bad under Ferentz regardless of the offensive coordinator.

My point is as long as Ferentz is the head coach certain things are not going to change, and I think it has a lot to do with Iowa's attendance issues.

I mean that, this year, Iowa has its staff in place and experienced players on the field - event talent. These 2 things were not present in 2012. Its the scheme. It has been his program now for over a decade (unlike 1999 and 2000)

And its too big for him to fix in 1 week - and I don't think he is equipped to make radical change. In that respect, it is new territory

 

[Skeets77]

 

[CJSHawk]

I mean that, this year, Iowa has its staff in place and experienced players on the field - event talent. These 2 things were not present in 2012. Its the scheme. It has been his program now for over a decade (unlike 1999 and 2000)

And its too big for him to fix in 1 week - and I don't think he is equipped to make radical change. In that respect, it is new territory

Agree about the radical change! The only time I can remember Ferentz embracing radical change was in 2004 when we were down to our 5th string RB so we went with a four-wide passing offense with Drew Tate and ............we ended up as B1G champs!!

 

[Seth53]

Excellent post by the OP. Well done. Excellent and spot-on points.

 

[CJSHawk]

Excellent post by the OP. Well done. Excellent and spot-on points.

Ferentz is who he is and believes what he believes, and he's not changing. I think this serves Ferentz well in some areas, but it's killing the offense. The problem this creates for Gary Barta is more and more fans are choosing to stay home because of this.

 

[BigD]

I'd picked Kansas over Duke to top off a perfectly wrotten day. Who the hell does Duke ever beat????? They shelled Kansas.

 

[TheIowaHawkGuy]

I understand the frustration with our head coach, but these frustrations are nothing new. As long as he's our head coach you can expect the following:

1. A class act

2. Horrible clock management

3. A team that plays it's best football in November and usually beats a team they probably shouldn't.

4. A team that plays it's worst football in September and usually loses to a team they probably shouldn't.

5. Good defense

6. Ridiculously conservative/predictable offenses that make you want to tear your hair out.

7. Bowl games most years

8. Punting inside the opponents 35 yard line

9. Running plays into 8/9 man defensive fronts

10. LBs covering WRs

11. Zero issues with the NCAA

That is Iowa football under Kirk Ferentz. Always has been, always will be!!!

The team we beat in November usually ends up resulting in nothing gained for Iowa because of the team we lost to back in September. That's what's so infuriating with this guy.

 

[HomerChampless]

Number 5 - good pass defense - hasn't happened during the KF era, ever. Why have Iowa linebackers been asked to cover the pass? They can't. Has Iowa trotted out any nickle coverages this season? Not much of a pass rush this season, either.

Getting to the B1G schedule will be a blessing for Iowa's defense. More emphasis on running and less on passing. Thank goodness Iowa doesn't play in a pass happy league like the Big XII. The Pittsburgh game will be more like a B1G game for Iowa's defense. Iowa's offense should run the ball often. If necessary, de-empahasize the QB and let Weisman go wild.

I have so many unproven theories why Iowa has emphasized the pass more than the run this season... IMO, this reemphasization comes from Davis... with Ferentz including input..
(1) Davis trying to open up the offense? With so many 'toys' to play with? So far that hasn't been working...
(2) The coaching staff is trying to prove (to whom) Rudock has as good of an arm as any other QB? The choice of QB is Ferentz's.
(3) Wide receivers who grouse about not getting the ball?

I just looked at the last post. IMO, the ISU games have lately been ISU passing offenses against not so good Iowa pass defenses. Iowa all but stopped ISU's running game, yesterday. So ISU passed. And passed. And passed.