For those who know, who else was interviewed/interested/Iowa interested in/ etc., in the football job when Fry retired? I think people know I think we got the right guy, but was interested in any info. Thanks, in advance.
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Thanks, for the response. I didn't know Stoops was for sure taking the Iowa job if offered.Bob Stoops was interviewed and if Bob Bowlsby was not so set on interviewing Kirk Ferentz we would have had Bob Stoops but Stoops needed a answer immediately from Iowa as he was going to interview with Oklahoma, if Iowa would have offered Stoops the job he was not going to interview at Oklahoma. Bowlsby dropped the ball but Kirk has been a solid hire for us but the game has passed him by and fan apathy is running wild after 16 years.
TrollThanks, for the response. I didn't know Stoops was for sure taking the Iowa job if offered.
Don't understand this comment??Troll
Sorry if I'm wrong, hard to believe a hawk fan hasn't heard this stuff 1000x.Don't understand this comment??
I've obviously heard stories about the process and about Stoops. But, I wasn't there and didn't know for a fact that Stoops was in if offered.Sorry if I'm wrong, hard to believe a hawk fan hasn't heard this stuff 1000x.
Outsider perspective - it is really tough to say if Stoops would have been more successful. He took over a team that had been coached by an excellent recruiter, so the cupboard was full when Stoops arrived, IIRC. Ferentz had the opposite. What Kirk did in his first five years was extremely impressive. During that time I remember most Hawk fans I associate with being glad that Kirk had the job, because they thought he could do more starting from nothing. I also remember during the 2002-2004 being happy that the Huskers did not play the Hawkeyes. Kirk was unbelivably successful for the resources he had.Here's a question for the history books.
Say Iowa hires Stoops on the spot because Bowlsby or whoever else had the power to get in Bowlsby's ear..."just had a feeling"...that Stoops was the right guy.
Do you believe he would've done at Iowa, what he did early in his career at Oklahoma? Or do you think he still could've done what he did at Oklahoma, just that it would've taken a few more years to do so?
I ask because I'm inclined to believe that there are a lot of fans who believe that had Stoops been hired that he would've had Iowa in a much more sustained point of success, but that it just wouldn't have happened as quickly as did for him at Oklahoma.
Of course a lot of this will be very subjective because it's hindsight and it will play on people's opinions, particularly regarding how they feel Stoops would do compared to Ferentz, which in most everyone's case (that's against Ferentz anyway), is that Stoops would've had more sustained success.
But here is your chance to share that opinion.
Outsider perspective - it is really tough to say if Stoops would have been more successful. He took over a team that had been coached by an excellent recruiter, so the cupboard was full when Stoops arrived, IIRC. Ferentz had the opposite. What Kirk did in his first five years was extremely impressive. During that time I remember most Hawk fans I associate with being glad that Kirk had the job, because they thought he could do more starting from nothing. I also remember during the 2002-2004 being happy that the Huskers did not play the Hawkeyes. Kirk was unbelivably successful for the resources he had.
Now since then, barring 2009 and maybe a couple other years I am forgetting, has to be one of the bigger head scratchers on "what happened"? But talk to most Oklahoma fans, and they feel very similar to how many Hawk fans feel today. They feel Stoops has not sustained a level of football that Oklahoma expects for the past several years. Oklahoma has some benefits over coaching at Iowa – such as recruiting, program support, money, etc., so I personally am not sure that Stoops would be a whole lot more successful if he had coached at Iowa versus Ferentz. Just an opinion…