Email I sent to our beloved AD. I’m tired of this sh!t- he didn’t impress me when I was there, and far less even now.
Gary,
You and I have met a few times. In fact, I worked for the university of Iowa, I bleed black and gold, I grew up in Iowa, and now raise the next Hawkeye generation.
Kirk said it best, “we are in the entertainment industry.” To put bluntly, This product on the field is a national joke and has lacked entertainment value for a while. What makes it worse is no one seems to care. I know the culture within the Iowa athletic department, everyone has been complacent in their jobs for over 20 years. I put you in the camp!
Who’s job is it to ensure a quality program for the prices you are charging? Who’s job is it to hold the coaching staff accountable? Our family will not be attending anymore games until change is made. I don’t think you fully grasp how bad this offense has become. Either Kirk is too stubborn to change or Brian is too incompetent to be the OC. Either way that change starts with you. How far do we have to fall before you recognize a change needs to occur? We have 6 offensive TDs through 6 games!! Texas just scored 7 TDs last week! This offense is so bad and predictable that Ray Charles can see the next play, and the next one. It’s embarrassing that Kirk rides off the coattails of a 10-win season last year. If not for an easy schedule and a solid defense it would've been 6-6. Read the article below, that every Hawkeye fan relates to, and tell me we are not a national joke in college football? I’m not sure if you have the testicle fortitude to make a change, feel free to borrow mine.
I can promise you fewer fans will be showing up, season renewals will drastically decrease, 10-12 players will enter the portal, recruits have already decommitted, any Kirk’s answer will be, “we won 10 games two years ago.” College football programs are the front porch to the university. When student enrollment dips, I will love to hear your argument. Especially as the AD that signed the worst extension in college football, to a 70 year old coach that no one would hire away given his age.
I love Kirk, I love what he did for the program, but his best years are in the rear view mirror. Brian is in over his head, Ray Charles can also see that. Iowa players and Iowa fans deserve better than this and you are to blame! Coaches have been fired for less yet you celebrate and reward mediocrity.
Disappointed Hawkeye Ambassador
https://hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com/2022/10/09/im-tired-of-watching-iowa-hawkeyes-football/