Spring Game Action Video
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Watched them all and very much appreciated. Granted, the spring scrimmage is just one practice, but I'm surprised that the coaches are verbally going out of their way to say Hill is currently the #2 QB. I didn't see anything during Sat's clips that scream "Hill is significantly better than Labas." In fact, if I had to choose a starter I'd go with Labas. Surprised they wouldn't just say it's an even and open competition, especially given that Labas started last year's bowl game having not taken a single college snap, and performed decently.
HuckFinn
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Interesting thoughts. Hmm.
Fryowa
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You saw less than 5 minutes total of each of them. Coaches have seen them every day through spring practice, in every meeting, and in every workout session. They're also high-level P5 college football coaches.
I'd say they're qualified to say who's better more than any of us are.
Eh.... In regards to Brian I'd damn near take a random fans take over his these days. The list of QBs he's recruited/developed the last 5 yrs has been Petras Hogan, Padilla, May and Labas. Don't get me wrong logically you're right. They should. But man till bringing in Cade has happened BF has done nothing but swing and miss on QBs so far while he's been OC. The decision to not have been looking for a QB in the portal the previous 2 off seasons seemed like an A1 mistake. Petras was who he was and never improved one iota over his career.
Will he stick around long enough to get to coach Lainez who has promise? Let alone the FL kid that's fast as all get out. I guess we'll see but he's got no benefit of the doubt from me he can develop or spot talent at the QB position very well. Not at a D1 level anyway
NorthKCHawk
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Did you see this story requiring parents who bitch at little league games to Ump 3 games themselves before they can return? What a great idea.
Sort of reminds me of this take. Everything is easier from the peanut gallery.
Little League cracks down on ump abuse: Parents caught yelling must complete 3 umpire assignments
"They're coming here, they're being abused, they don't need that. So they're walking away," said Deptford Township Little League President Don Bozzuffi.
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I get the sentiment. But what's BFs resume? No other OC has anything close to one as bad as he does and maintains their job for 5 plus yrs. Not at a D1 school hell probably at any other level either. I think he know football sure he's been around it his whole life. But he's not a QB coach. He's not a developer of QBs he's not a good play caller. This is a years long going on thing that is obvious. Put him at Oline coach or TE coach where he actually knows something and has had some success. Beyond that he's just in over his head. I'd put Phil Parker at WR coach before I'd put BF at QB coach.Did you see this story requiring parents who bitch at little league games to Ump 3 games themselves before they can return? What a great idea.
Sort of reminds me of this take. Everything is easier from the peanut gallery.
Little League cracks down on ump abuse: Parents caught yelling must complete 3 umpire assignments
"They're coming here, they're being abused, they don't need that. So they're walking away," said Deptford Township Little League President Don Bozzuffi.
I kinda defended the guy initially for a few yrs. But sorry not sorry going into yr 6 there's nothing to be defending at this point but just being ok with nepotism.
Fryowa
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I still think you should get into officiating as a retirement gig. Wherever you are your local association would be glad to have you and you'll get insight into sports that you can't get any other way.
Fryowa
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Ferentz's results aren't defensible whatsoever at this point. No OC in history has ever performed this poorly and kept his job this long. Not even close.Did you see this story requiring parents who bitch at little league games to Ump 3 games themselves before they can return? What a great idea.
Sort of reminds me of this take. Everything is easier from the peanut gallery.
Little League cracks down on ump abuse: Parents caught yelling must complete 3 umpire assignments
"They're coming here, they're being abused, they don't need that. So they're walking away," said Deptford Township Little League President Don Bozzuffi.
Hawkboys
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If only the players executed better!
NorthKCHawk
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At the risk of defending his undeniably crappy performance, let's remember he has a boss. By all accounts he is doing what his boss asks him to do. If your boss came into your office and said you will make close to a million dollars, but you have to do things a really sucky way that will make you look not great at your job but will be best for the overall organization, would you do it? Since he took over as OC Iowa has won between 8 and 10 games every year and we are in the midst of one of the most consistent winning runs in program history. Like it or not, BF was part of that. And, I seem to recall that we all thought Greg Davis was the worst OC in the history of the game, and he might have been. Before that, KOK was vilified by the fan base. There is a track record here, gents. What's the common denominator?
TO BE CLEAR, I am not defending BF's performance or KF's decision to not look for a better OC. Neither is defensible. But, when someone suggests that any fool on this board could do a better job than BF that is silly and I called that out. That's the same as people screaming at a TV that they could do a better job umping a game than the trained umps on the field. No, you couldn't. Its harder than it looks. A lot harder.
HuckFinn
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It is really annoying when you make a sensible post.
Fryowa
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Brian Ferentz is statistically and objectively worse then Greg Davis in every way. Just because Davis performed badly and got a lot of grief doesn't somehow make Ferentz's performance any less shitty.
At the end of the day, poor performance is poor performance with the only difference being how poor it is. If you want me to transfer blame to KF instead of BF, where does the buck stop? Do we blame the MLB umpires union for Angel Hernandez? Should we love Angel and not criticize him because there a higher-up that enables him to keep sucking?
BF's performance is BF. If he sucks he's going to get the criticism. You can muddy the waters by saying it's a mix of nepotism and stifling of creativity by Kurt, but Brian is still the OC. He's doing a job that he's terrible at and it's fair game for any and all criticism. He knows he's hurting the Iowa football program with his ineptness and he continues to do it. That's on him.
NorthKCHawk
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I am great at annoying people.
NorthKCHawk
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And I did not say anything that contradicts a thing you just stated. I agree with the general sentiment that BF's performance has been beyond reproach. The why he sucks maybe subject to reasonable debate, but the fact of his sucking is not.
I called out a post that suggested that anyone on this board would be better at BF's job than BF. Do you agree? Put another way, if KF came to you and said, "Fry, I have read your good work on HawkeyeNation and I know you think my son is a boob, and to be candid, he probably is. Since you seem to have such a good grasp of things, can you select a poster on your board that seems to have his thoughts together and send me his contact information? I will install him as the new OC and we will get this offense thing figured out. I can probably pay him less and we can get rid of that nepotism thing so Barta will shut the hell up. Thanks, my friend!"
Would you welcome that approach from Coach Ferentz?
I'm not sure most people on this board wouldn't be better at deciding who starts at qb than Kirk is. At this point he clearly has a huge flaw in how he evaluates. And I'm not talking about how he chooses who to bring into the program. I'm talking about after they are here and he gets to know them as a person. That's when he tends to make mistakes on who he thinks is better.
NorthKCHawk
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As Fry likes to point out, while we all have our opinions, the coaches are the ones seeing these guys every day in practice. KF likes guys with experience and who do not turn the ball over. But, he has also benched starters in favor of younger QBs that demonstrated more talent. Both Beatherd and Stanzi supplanted existing starters. He even tried to do that last year, but it was replacing a round turd with a square shit sandwich operating behind a swiss cheese line. KF maybe a slow to make a change, but I believe that the best QB has usually been on the field during his tenure. When Iowa has hit rough patches its because the entire room sucked, like the last two years.
