LOL you Ferentz apologists always crack me up with your excuses for mediocrity and losing. Weis won 19 games in two season. Rhoads is very proud. They didn't have to recruit a bunch of thugs to do it either. Each is a total class act.
I'll play the game here ... let's throw out those 19 wins in two seasons. Where is Weis? 19-39. TWENTY games below .500. Rhoads? ONE winning season as a head coach.
Now, lets' throw out KF's three-year run that was kick-butt by any standards — 31-7. (Yeah, three years, not two) and where is he? 97-92 overall. Five games ABOVE .500. Iowa only? 75-71.
Call me an "apologist" if you need a label. Call me a "Weis Hater" (which would be MUCH more accurate) if you choose.
But at the end of the day, I believe Weis is the most overpaid HEAD COACH in college football. He gets $2 mill from Kansas, and another $2 mill from ND (to NOT coach. That should tell you something). Yes, he has superbowl rings as a O.C. . Yes, he did good things at Kansas City as the O.C. Neither have any bearing on his success or lack thereof as a NCAA head coach — apples and oranges. It is clear, by the data, that Weis has not been able either maintain (Notre Dame) or build (so far at Kansas) a successful program as an NCAA head coach.
His talent may be O.C. in the NFL. If a NFL team wants him for that, they can have him. But thus far, he has yet to prove he can sustain any type of success as a NCAA head coach.
Paul Rhoads...oh Paul. I LIKE what he has done at ISU. I like that he has raised expectations, and that the program has become more competitive. But can we evaluate this for what it is? He's coaching at a school with 11 winning seasons in 40 years. Personally, I don't have him on my overpaid coach list at this time — the history of the program factors into that. Stating he is "proud" does not quantify is talent as a coach. I'm sure Turner Gill is proud. I'm sure Frank Laurterbur was a proud man. I know Dan Thiessen, one of the worst college football coaches at any level, was a proud man. But he was a terrible, terrible coach.