Pretend you're the new AD. Barta got fired for incompetence, as the university president should absolutely do tomorrow, and you're hired to oversee iowa athletics.
Me, I'd fire brian ferentz 1 second I got hired. Kirk would be pissed so I tell him he's free to resign. We'll negotiate a severance package and give him a bronze statue down the road. If he wants to stay on I tell him to fire everyone on the offensive side of the ball and that he has no say in how the offense is run. I only give him one piece of "advice".......hire the best offensive mind in high school football, let him build his own staff and stay out of his way. It should be obvious that the new OC has to hit the transfer portal HARD in the offseason. I try to find some boosters who are willing to pony up NIL deals to "convince" a few very dangerous offensive threats they'd look good in black and gold. At the very least we wouldn't be dead last in offense.
Me, I'd fire brian ferentz 1 second I got hired. Kirk would be pissed so I tell him he's free to resign. We'll negotiate a severance package and give him a bronze statue down the road. If he wants to stay on I tell him to fire everyone on the offensive side of the ball and that he has no say in how the offense is run. I only give him one piece of "advice".......hire the best offensive mind in high school football, let him build his own staff and stay out of his way. It should be obvious that the new OC has to hit the transfer portal HARD in the offseason. I try to find some boosters who are willing to pony up NIL deals to "convince" a few very dangerous offensive threats they'd look good in black and gold. At the very least we wouldn't be dead last in offense.