Gawd I hope all hawk fans are pulling for him and will give him a chance. A lot of breakage to fix right now. He knows QBing and passing game as he threw for a ton in college, he needs to have great OLine coaching to improve run game by 25% with a lot fewer negative runs
Being a QB and coaching them does not mean you are going to be good. I can't find one QB he coached that went to the NFL or even NCAA greatness. Iowa needs that caliber of QB to be competitive, we can't Deacon Hill a season again.
Tim Lester does have some experience in the Big Ten.
Lester spent the 2016 season as the quarterbacks coach at Purdue, a rough year for the Boilermakers overall but one that featured decent offensive success.
Quarterback David Blough threw for 3,352 yards that season with 25 touchdowns but also 21 interceptions.
Tim Lester's only experience as a Power Five offensive coordinator didn't go great.
Lester’s only experience as a Power Five offensive coordinator resulted in offenses that ranked 116th and 119th nationally at Syracuse in 2014 and 2015, respectively. He became the OC five games in to the 2014 season and went 1-6 from there, putting his overall record as a Power Five OC at 5-14.
The height of Lester's tenure came with an 8-5 season in 2021, which included a win in the Quick Lane Bowl. However, after a 2-5 start than led to a 5-7 campaign in 2022, Western Michigan fired Lester in November 2022.
Let's see what he does in the spring game, if it is more of the same, fukc it - BG needs to rewrite KF's contract to end Dec 2024.