i wonder if the free wheeling offense against ucla that knocked out sullivan forced kf to take charge and make things super conservative. gameplan worked perfectly against ne
Chad Leistikow: "This is no longer KF's offense."
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I think a great goal is to have Rhys Dakin be the most under-utilized player on the roster next year... I'll believe it when I see it.
The offense is gonna change any day now....keep selling out those season tickets while Kirk laughs at how gullible some of the fans are!
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Didn't we hear that in the spring and we still saw Kirk stamped all over the O
This "fan" recognizes that Kirk has done a fabulous job building defensive and special teams staff which is reflected in those results. This "fan" also recognizes that he has failed miserably in doing the same with respect to the offensive side of the program. This "fan" hopes that it has been rectified with the hiring of Lester and that Kirk, in recognition of his own limitations, will afford him the latitude to be successful in that role with minimal influence, because that's what a smart CEO does.
This is the elephant in the room….we were still punting at every chance we had this season….so I am guessing the ‘full control’ kicks in at the Music City bowl? 🤔
You people do realize that Lucy Ferentz is just going to pull the ball away at the last second and Charlie Fan is going to wind up flat on his ass.
Assuming no lies were told, this means that KF has seen enough from Lester in year 1 and is willing to delegate offensive control to him, so that he can focus completely on being essentially the CEO of the team, sort of akin to Nick Saban by the end of his tenure.
He still will have final say on certain things come gameday, but I'm guessing this is Kirk finally being willing to sit back and let the chain of command work itself out.
It was a minor miracle. Nebby self imploded. Their idiot player decided to touch a punt or how could you predict a QB fumble very late, you can't. Iowa should buy a lottery ticket.
Lots of venom and Kirk raging going on.
Is this an opinion or a sourced fact? Writers can be full of shit sometimes.
Completely disagree. I didn't see any KF stamp on this offense until we ran out of scholarship QBs. At that point, Lester and KF had no choice but to "dumb down" the offense. It ain't like a 5th string walkon QB is going to have a good grasp of anything. But before that, we saw a bunch of new wrinkles in the running game, particularly the midzone toss plays that Kaleb was getting huge chunks of yardage with all year. We saw a lot of motion and misdirection. We rarely, if ever, saw 2 receivers within 2 yards of each other on a pass play which, for some reason, was a staple of the BF offense. That by itself is a huge upgrade in the passing game. We saw the deployment of a running QB in redzone and short yardage situations. So c'mon man, there was nothing Ferentz stamped on this offense until the last 2 games of the season.
This post is dumb enough to qualify you for Admiral Levine's public relations manager.
The plays sure. The philosophy...absolutely all Kirk. Conservatives to a core. Don't get me wrong. I like what Lester has done but there's no way Kirk takes his hands off.
Well, I thought it was terrible as well. But that doesn't mean Lester didn't call the plays.
Possible explanations -
1. 4th string QB. Playbook was limited.
2. KJ was the best hope for a big play. It's happened before in games where he was getting stuffed.
3. Trying to shorten the game
I am NOT defending the play calls - only trying to find some small reasoning behind them.
Motion timing etc with basically scout team LB playing at QB is pretty hard to nail down. That’s before even talking about how limited the playbook becomes. It took Iowa being down to 5th string QB to look how it did last season offensively. Lester is doing a great job.
I think they just wanted to be able to tell recruits that a better offense was in the works.
In the case of the Nebraska game plan, this was apparent in real time. Frankly, these explanations become the defense of the play calls. I think by necessity the play calls would have expanded in the second half if Nebraska got up 17-0, because at that point, Iowa would have needed to score points. It may have even happened if there had not been a fumbled punt return. But with the fumble recovery on the punt, and Kirk going for the FG on 4th and goal from the two instead of a touchdown, that signaled to me that Kirk thought (right or wrong) that the defense was playing well enough to keep Nebraska from scoring, so they'd wait for the opportunity(ies), which Kaleb and Max delivered on. It worked out (just like we knew it would
). It was pure Kirk, his fingerprints were all over that game plan.
Just a thought. I am sure KF doesn’t put a lot of stock in breaking records as he puts the character and performance of the team over that. All he needs is two more wins and he is in the record book. Might as well turn it loose and see how far TL can take it before he departs.
From where did the quote originate?
I see nothing in the quote that suggests that TL hasn't had full control over the offense all along
I see nothing in the quote that suggests that TL hasn't had full control over the offense all along
Even you can’t be this dumb. Barnett is ass, and his lines have been the worst we’ve seen since the late 70’s. Just soft garbage.
`Iowa State had more first downs than ASU in the championship game if you're into stats instead of Ws...
Even TL himself once talked about being “outvoted” in terms of certain play calls this season.
I guess it all depends on the definition of “full control.”
we've been told for the last 2+ decades that Kirk's cords have a tremendous amount of autonomy....
So which would be the worse insult?
This is the same bullsh** line we've heard before? ...or that KFz actually is giving his OC autonomy...but it took 26 years?
This is the same bullsh** line we've heard before? ...or that KFz actually is giving his OC autonomy...but it took 26 years?
So it's possible that the offense and play calling are all Lester. With respect to who's making the decisions to punt, go for it, or try a field goal, that's probably always going to be Kirk as you would expect.
That was a deep shot play that got vetoed.
Nobody other than the head coach has "complete control".
This doesn't mean that the coordinators aren't given what most would consider to be complete control.
Deep shots are something that a head coach is going to overrule from time to time. I'm sure Phil has had a couple blitzes and Lavar a fake punt overruled over the years. It's a head coaches job to manage risk according to time, score, field position.
It was immediately obvious this season that Iowa was running TL's offense.
There just isn't enough time to run two different offenses. TL still hasn't even fully installed his offense. There never would have been enough time for TL to have had continuously collaborated with KF regarding when he was going to run his own offense and when he was going to run an "Iowa offense" (that never existed).
It would have been far too confusing for the players to have been running two different offenses. Every single step a player takes has a purpose within an offense. Footwork has to be very detailed not only to execute a play, but to set up its counters within an offense. Each offense also has its own language. To try to combine different languages from different offenses is about impossible.
The play calls were coming almost exclusively from TL. There just isn't enough time between plays for coaches to be going back and forth about a play call. Especially with TL's calls that are heavy in verbiage.
Also consider KF didn't even coach the first game. So did TL exclusively use his stuff the first game, and then go back to mixing in KF's stuff after that? Not a chance in hell.
Fans and wreckless wording from Leistikow have completely turned this into something it is not
Did you not watch this season?
Even if your eye isn't trained in X's and O's, that fact that Iowa was far more committed to the run than it has been in previous seasons should have been a dead giveaway that there was new leadership on the offensive side of the ball
I actually believe it. I bet the egomaniac plans to retire after he breaks the B1G wins record next season, so he really doesn't give a f*ck what Lester runs.
