Wall Street Journal article: Iowa: The Harvard of Coaching

who are the 16....is it just head coaches? or is it assistants? and do they have to be alumni of the school or just the program? Because if it is all coaches 16 seems a little low to me!!
 
Great find. Good to have some good stories come out of the program right now after the Coker-surprise earlier today.
 
Hayden's the man! Tremendous impact on Iowa football and obviously a great impact on his asst. coaches.
 
Great article. Thank you, Hayden. And thank you Hayden's dad, for being a tough SOB and teaching your son how to be a winner in life.

Lots of good info in that article about how to be a leader.
 
After reading the article, I was left wondering how much responsibility Iowa's current head coach delegates to senior players in each unit and how many future coaches he is putting into the pipeline. Maybe that's not his style, but any good leader knows that empowering your best people and encouraging their growth contributes to the overall success of the organization.

At first blush KF does not appear to be continuing the growth of the Fry coaching tree. Perhaps it's too early to make that judgement.
 
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His assistants referred to Hayden as "The Duke". They were correct in their assessment.
 
Bill Snyder at KSU was probably worth mentioning in the article, considering he took directly the Hayden blueprint to the losingest program in college football history and turned it into a consistent winner, then after he left, and it went south again, came back and did it again. Everything all the way down to the dang helmet design.
 
tweeterhawk said:
After reading the article, I was left wondering how much responsibility Iowa's current head coach delegates to senior players in each unit and how many future coaches he is putting into the pipeline. Maybe that's not his style, but any good leader knows that empowering your best people and encouraging their growth contributes to the overall success of the organization.

At first blush KF does not appear to be continuing the growth of the Fry coaching tree. Perhaps it's too early to make that judgement.
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Isn't this what the leadership council is about. I'm not sure exactly about the coaching aspect, it seems like the leadership council empowers those selected by the players and staff to be involved in discipline and team direction. Further, I can't remember players being anything but respectful and complimentary about the great job the team leaders do. Not that you would expect something different, but it has seemed very genuine when guys talk about Marvin McNutt, Ricky Stanzi, Adrian Clayborn, etc... Just an observation. While this hasn't specifically shown up in the coaching trees too much, I agree that it is likely too early. The oldest Ferentz recruits are 31-32-33 years old - unlikely to be at very high publicity positions yet.
 
Fry only hired assistants he thought could one day be head coaches. How many coaches on KF's staff could you say that about. There's a lot to be said about coaching continuity/stability, but what about hiring the best/motivated?
 
Really is portrait of contrasting styles. Or, maybe KF just didn't like that the guys who were on staff that were potential HCs actually left.
 
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Really is portrait of contrasting styles. Or, maybe KF just didn't like that the guys who were on staff that were potential HCs actually left.
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Exactly. If you are comfortable in your own skin and your strengths as a leader and manager, you can hire bright young underlings, coach them up, empower them to do their jobs and then pat them on the back as they leave for bigger and better things, and bring in fresh new talent. If you're not, you hire good people who'll stay, but you largely continue to try to manage everything. Your best underlings won't stay long for that; those that do are less likely to be motivated or to embrace and encourage change.
 
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Exactly. If you are comfortable in your own skin and your strengths as a leader and manager, you can hire bright young underlings, coach them up, empower them to do their jobs and then pat them on the back as they leave for bigger and better things, and bring in fresh new talent. If you're not, you hire good people who'll stay, but you largely continue to try to manage everything. Your best underlings won't stay long for that; those that do are less likely to be motivated or to embrace and encourage change.
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So your basically saying that KF isn't comfortable with his skills as a leader?

LOL

You do realize that plenty of recruits have said they love the fact that Iowa coaches have been here for as long as they have right?

I will agree that KF and Fry had different ideas when it came to who to hire for their staffs but nobody can argue that they both have found success using their own formula.
 
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