Soooo....Anti-Ferentz crowd

HawkGold said:
If Phil doesn't want to be a HC, why would he stay at Iowa?
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Phil makes pretty good coin as a Defensive Coordinator. He may well value the quality of life he has as an assistant as opposed to a head coaching gig somewhere. Let's face it, in today's world of high stakes collegiate athletics, you're hired to get fired as a head coach. And in reading some of the articles on PP, it sounds like he enjoys the teaching aspect of the game. You can't do that as much as a head man.
 
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haydensly said:
Phil makes pretty good coin as a Defensive Coordinator. He may well value the quality of life he has as an assistant as opposed to a head coaching gig somewhere. Let's face it, in today's world of high stakes collegiate athletics, you're hired to get fired as a head coach. And in reading some of the articles on PP, it sounds like to enjoys the teaching aspect of the game. You can't do that as much as a head man.
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$675K a year and relative anonymity ain't a bad gig.
 
haydensly said:
Phil makes pretty good coin as a Defensive Coordinator. He may well value the quality of life he has as an assistant as opposed to a head coaching gig somewhere. Let's face it, in today's world of high stakes collegiate athletics, you're hired to get fired as a head coach. And in reading some of the articles on PP, it sounds like to enjoys the teaching aspect of the game. You can't do that as much as a head man.
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Let me re-phrase. Why would he coach at a school that consistently puts his unit in a bad position.
 
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Brian is auditioning for the HC job. This is not a good resume builder for him for that position. If it doesn't get better, my guess is he'll remain the OC as long as Kirk is the coach, but he'll have very little chance of becoming the head coach. However, I expect it will get better this year, and following. It's a bit early to make final conclusions, but it is also worthy of discussion because it has to be a concern as games go on.
 
haydensly said:
Phil makes pretty good coin as a Defensive Coordinator. He may well value the quality of life he has as an assistant as opposed to a head coaching gig somewhere. Let's face it, in today's world of high stakes collegiate athletics, you're hired to get fired as a head coach. And in reading some of the articles on PP, it sounds like to enjoys the teaching aspect of the game. You can't do that as much as a head man.
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Bud Foster would be a perfect example of this.
 
I feel like it’s a combination of things where the offense as a whole just doesn’t look comfortable yet. Some of that is coaching, some is on the players and some is giving credit to the opponent as well.

The game-clinching drive was a well-coached, well-executed drive that should be run on repeat all week. All other things aside, it also looks like Stanley is pressing. On the pass to ISM and again on that last drive, Stanley looked comfortable, and hopefully they can build on that.

The pieces do look like they are there to me, they just haven’t come together yet. With any luck, they can find a groove next Saturday.
 
blubberhawk said:
Skill players better? Who? Hakeem "Stone Hands" Butler? The backs who made up the .8 yards per carry average yesterday? Kick returners = nothing. Punt returners= nothing. Quarterbacks = nothing special. None of their tight ends would even make traveling squad at Iowa. Not really sure where you are coming from.
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Butler is a matchup nightmare, and Montgomery is a beast. If he ran behind an average or slightly above average line he'd be Heisman material.
 
HawkeyeWalker said:
I'm a pro KF guy. I'm on board wity a run first, power football, defensive strength team....however... this offensive production/rank is absolutely not acceptable, and in my opinion it has absolutely nothing to do with the players, talent, or skill. Eventually, slow starts and ultra conservative passing game are going to get Iowa beat.

I can live with a few mistakes, dropped passes, overthrows, under throws, even a fumble. What I cant accept is an offense that either coaches, promotes, or is ok with ONE attempted pass of over 10 yards in an entire half of football, notably against a team Keying on the run!.

To be clear, I do Not expect a top 25 or even a top 50 offense (although if we had that, wed be talking about B1G titles and CFP potential). What I do expect is offensive production, at the very Minimum, in the top 75% of D1 college football.

We have what seems to be a very good defense that could even get better, they deserve better than an offense that isn't a bottom 10 ranked for the last 2 years.

Loved the win, thrilled with being 2-0, super excited about the defense. 3 trips inside the opponents 30 yard line for 3 points, nope, cant defend that. We talked last year that better punting might have resulted in 1 or 2 more wins. Welp...we may have been on the other side of that without 2 gifted shanks yesterday.

Go Hawks.
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Good analysis.

Shorter version: The pro set offense does not and cannot work if you don't have a legit downfield threat. Period. A little creativity wouldn't kill either.
 
Every year since 2011, our offense has looked lost. When 85th total offense is the best of the Kirk 3.0 era that’s just pathetic.

What is the excuse this year ? Brian has had two years to apply his system (which looks very similar to the GD system). We have a returning QB, WR, TE, and a few OL. There’s no reason for the offense to look THIS bad

It’s horrible to watch.

As another poster stated, I’m ok with some mistakes, a few drops (tho not as many as we have) but we can’t do this with an offense that refuses to spread the field. That runs the same 5 plays over and over.

The OSU game gets brought up too often here. It’s clear that was a fluke. The other 95% of our 17ppg is who we are
 
HawkeyeWalker said:
I'm a pro KF guy. I'm on board wity a run first, power football, defensive strength team....however... this offensive production/rank is absolutely not acceptable, and in my opinion it has absolutely nothing to do with the players, talent, or skill. Eventually, slow starts and ultra conservative passing game are going to get Iowa beat.

I can live with a few mistakes, dropped passes, overthrows, under throws, even a fumble. What I cant accept is an offense that either coaches, promotes, or is ok with ONE attempted pass of over 10 yards in an entire half of football, notably against a team Keying on the run!.

To be clear, I do Not expect a top 25 or even a top 50 offense (although if we had that, wed be talking about B1G titles and CFP potential). What I do expect is offensive production, at the very Minimum, in the top 75% of D1 college football.

We have what seems to be a very good defense that could even get better, they deserve better than an offense that isn't a bottom 10 ranked for the last 2 years.

Loved the win, thrilled with being 2-0, super excited about the defense. 3 trips inside the opponents 30 yard line for 3 points, nope, cant defend that. We talked last year that better punting might have resulted in 1 or 2 more wins. Welp...we may have been on the other side of that without 2 gifted shanks yesterday.

Go Hawks.
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Looking at the part in bold, it may well be our punting that is helping us most so far.
 
tksirius said:
Are we talking about Brian or Kirk, cuz if we're talking about Brian.... we'll probably be right around 110 to 115 in total offense when the rankings come out.
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Only 91st. Better than I thought and UNI should help next week followed by 50 yards of total offense against Wisconsin.
 
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