If I had a nickel for every time I saw this joke made the past 3 months, I’d have more money than Kirk.
Ferentz issues apology for comments on Tuesday
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Between this board, the basketball board and HROT, you’d be astounded by how many posters think they’re making that joke for the first time.
this is the funniest shit I've read in a long time. lmao.
Anybody who thinks that the media has not been circling the Iowa Football program like a pack of merciless bloodthirsty sharks is just checking in, they have not been watching and listening closely at all.
But having said that, I wonder how the media would react to Kirk taking a complete Bill Belichick approach to answering media questions, Would they like that better? Is that more professional and respectful of the media?
Not surprising at all. Fan's are highly invested in the well-being of their teams, they get great satisfaction and joy in cheering them on and experience deep sadness and frustration when their teams perform badly. Sports are an entertaining diversion from all the fears and threats of war and global annihilation that exist in the real world.
Your point is well taken when considering that Football is still just a game, an entertaining pastime for its watchers, and all honesty is not front-page newsworthy, considering all the more critical happenings in the world. Yet, this swirl of criticism and out-and-out hatred focused on Biran and Kirk Ferentz is way out of proportion compared to the corrupt world of American Politics, which should be a much more impactful and much more serious and concerning state of affairs for all American's.
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Hell, watch a nick saban presser. Makes this comment look tame by comp.
Without question Tom. "Michael" aka Irvin88 is one of those posters whose sole purpose is to start fires and throw dirt on anything to do with Iowa athletics. He's NEVER posted a single positive thing on this site, and has made his true colors blatantly obvious.....
Oh God, be careful there. He's liable to actually come back and say" because he's an Iowa fan", which we know clearly is a lie......
There's too much blood in the water, and the sharks have been waiting for a good meal for too long. None of this is going away.....
This x 1000.....
Lol Belichick has earned a little more leverage on how he deals with the media.
He should care about the national media because the national media is writing about what's going on in Iowa City. And the Iowa football program right now is a laughing stock.
How does KF expect to recruit, especially on the offensive side of the ball, when all the press is negative?
Correct me if I am wrong, but he never apologized to the Buckeye beat writer. He only apologized to the Iowa media for making those comments during the press conference on Tuesday.
I honestly don't think he retires until (1) he figures this mess out & rights the ship and (2) his and Brian's names are completely cleared from the lawsuit
too bad @EvilMonkeyInTheCloset is a Vikings fan and not a Pats fan. He'd have won a CHAMPIONSHIP by now!
Lol, he was an ASS from the beginning......And his leverage left with some guy named Tom. Whats his record look like without that guy???
I've never seen a Saban presser where he degrades a guy for what he does for a living.
If that’s the worst thing a coach ever says to him, he’ll have had a pretty good career.
I rewatched the KF presser. It was a bad comment by Kirk but I feel like it’s taken on a life of its own at this point far beyond the comment itself.
I can understand why what (and how) the reporter asked Kirk got under his skin, especially given how the season has gone. And then the article he wrote…easy to see how that would have made Kirk mad. So he lashed out.
Kirk has apologized. The season has enough going on that I don’t feel like dwelling on this anymore.
And please, there have been plenty of times saban has lashed out, or pretty much any other coach at some point during their careers. Coaches and reporters have an adversarial relationship at times. This is far from the worst thing a coach has ever said about a reporter.
Either way, Belichick has been tight lipped for a long time. Hayden Fry could get ornery with the media. Bob Knight would make reporters look ridiculous when they asked what he "thought" was a stupid question... this is uncharted territory for Kirk, I think that is why people are surprised and it is a talking point. This whole season seems something is wrong. I don't think Kirk was wrong for his response. I also think the reporter reported in facts.
Lol, KF makes $7 mill a year and is whining about having to answer uncomfortable questions.
Plenty of coaches make more money and still whine/complain about reporters.
He had a bad day. Let’s move on.
To be fair, the Vikings were a better franchise than the Patriots when I became a Vikings fan....................too bad @EvilMonkeyInTheCloset is a Vikings fan and not a Pats fan. He'd have won a CHAMPIONSHIP by now!
Damn dude. Quit apologizing for Kirk. His apology became crap when he went on the coaches show and doubled down on that reporter for being the problem. He once again went after a professional for asking hard questions and then writing a factual article. Because of "tone." He's angry cause it's getting near impossible to hide the fact that Brian got the job, and has retained that job, purely because of nepotism. He should be angry at himself instead of lashing out at a truth teller. But he's too busy constructing some obfuscation and distraction from the real subject. Iowa football is NOT the Ferentz family's domain to do as they wish without consequences. Poor Kirk is realizing he's kinda ****ed.
I’m not apologizing for anything. He made a bad comment about a reporter, apologized, then gave a poor explanation when talking about it again.
just trying to point out that he’s hardly the only coach to stick his foot in his mouth like that; and also - it’s just small potatoes besides the mess the Iowa offense has turned into this year that will likely cost his son his job; as well as likely accelerating his own eventual exit from the program.
That's just like Kirk to apologize. You said what you said, own it. A real apology would have come the next morning. Had he put out a statement that he was frustrated and said some things he wasn't proud of then good on him. When you wait it just seems he caved to pressure.
I would be pissed off at a reporter covering OSU who has no idea what it's like to coach at Iowa
