LaVar Woods on WUW podcast

[Hawkfnntn]

Highly recommend ya'll check that out. They had him on pretty much the day Mason committed. If Woods doesn't end up being an HC somewhere in the next few yrs then somethings wrong.

 

[Glass1/2fullguy]

The thing I enjoyed most about listening to coach woods was his ability to have a conversation w/ them w/out sounding like a coach who’s concerned about saying the wrong thing or saying too much. Hope iowa can keep him around but it’ll be difficult when someone decides to give him an opportunity to become a HC.

 

[99topdawg]

An article on The Athletic mentioned Woods as a candidate for Central Michigan's HC job. It states that people at Iowa feel he's ready to take on a bigger job (than Iowa's STC). Here's a link that I'm assuming requires a subscription: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/59...michigan-football-coaching-search-candidates/

 

[guffus]

Hmmm.... does Woods have any kind of previous connection to Central Michigan?

 

[BigD]

I’d be all for Woods taking over the Iowa Head coaching job starting next year.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

An article on The Athletic mentioned Woods as a candidate for Central Michigan's HC job. It states that people at Iowa feel he's ready to take on a bigger job (than Iowa's STC). Here's a link that I'm assuming requires a subscription: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/59...michigan-football-coaching-search-candidates/

Nice find. People think that any Joe Shmoe can land one of those MAC jobs. But there's dozens if not hundreds of guys lined up trying to land HC jobs like that. They don't just give those out.

 

[dagdaj]

I’d be all for Woods taking over the Iowa Head coaching job starting next year.

I would have to assume the cupboard is less bare than it was when Kirk took over.
I'd be more than happy for Woods to have a rough year or two getting his sea legs. And then settling in for 20 years of mostly above average, sometimes quite stellar, and rarely crappy football.

 

[Hawkfnntn]

I would have to assume the cupboard is less bare than it was when Kirk took over.
I'd be more than happy for Woods to have a rough year or two getting his sea legs. And then settling in for 20 years of mostly above average, sometimes quite stellar, and rarely crappy football.

Trick would be keeping Lester and Parker along with the recruiting class and not having a lot of turnover. If he could pull that off then he wouldn't have to get off to a similar start that KF did. Can pretty much hit the ground running. Just get a damn QB

 

[NorthKCHawk]

Trick would be keeping Lester and Parker along with the recruiting class and not having a lot of turnover. If he could pull that off then he wouldn't have to get off to a similar start that KF did. Can pretty much hit the ground running. Just get a damn QB

By all accounts Phil is happy being Iowa's DC, and I assume he would love to retire in that position. There was also an article about Lester wanting to plant some roots due to kids. I don't think he would feel any sort of entitled to the HC position given that he has been here a year and has been an improvement but not a rock star. So, if KF hung em up and there was an internal promotion, I think it is very realistic that you could keep the staff, players, and commits in the boat. The problem is that Woods is not the Associate Head Coach, so there might be the wrong internal promotion.