I was wrong

[EZ2BJZ]

I posted a thread after the NDSU game attacking those who were complaining about the coaching staff. Well, I've come back to own up to the fact I was wrong and you guys were right.

I really wanted to believe that last year was not a fluke and not all about Iowa's favorable schedule. Clearly, that is not the case.

If Kirk Ferentz was ever a top tier coach in the country, by now that is a fleeting memory at best, because the game has clearly passed him by. If Ferentz was coaching in the SEC, he would have been gone a long time ago. That's just reality--ask Les Miles. Fortunately for Kirk, he coaches at Iowa--where you are allowed to rest on your past laurels, and where 1 good season out of 5 mediocre ones affords you lucrative contract extensions. And most recently, a life-time one.

Noone should blame any recruits for decommitting, and I imagine there will be a couple who will in the upcoming weeks. Nor should anyone blame anyone for no longer supporting the Hawkeye football team or refusing to attend games so long as Kirk Ferentz is head coach. I, for one, am done and will not spend a single dime on Iowa football until Kirk Ferentz is relieved of his coaching duties. Thanks to Gary Barta, I will be saving money for quite some time.

Again, my apologies to those I attacked in my last post. You were 100% right and I was 100% wrong.

 

[EpenesaEpenesa]

It's a disaster that's for sure. Any momentum this program built last year is now gone.

 

[nameloc]

I posted a thread after the NDSU game attacking those who were complaining about the coaching staff. Well, I've come back to own up to the fact I was wrong and you guys were right.

I really wanted to believe that last year was not a fluke and not all about Iowa's favorable schedule. Clearly, that is not the case.

If Kirk Ferentz was ever a top tier coach in the country, by now that is a fleeting memory at best, because the game has clearly passed him by. If Ferentz was coaching in the SEC, he would have been gone a long time ago. That's just reality--ask Les Miles. Fortunately for Kirk, he coaches at Iowa--where you are allowed to rest on your past laurels, and where 1 good season out of 5 mediocre ones affords you lucrative contract extensions. And most recently, a life-time one.

Noone should blame any recruits for decommitting, and I imagine there will be a couple who will in the upcoming weeks. Nor should anyone blame anyone for no longer supporting the Hawkeye football team or refusing to attend games so long as Kirk Ferentz is head coach. I, for one, am done and will not spend a single dime on Iowa football until Kirk Ferentz is relieved of his coaching duties. Thanks to Gary Barta, I will be saving money for quite some time.

Again, my apologies to those I attacked in my last post. You were 100% right and I was 100% wrong.

Stop supporting the team, much like the Lickliter years and they will be forced to do something different with the staff

 

[HotelAlphaWilcoKilo]

I posted a thread after the NDSU game attacking those who were complaining about the coaching staff. Well, I've come back to own up to the fact I was wrong and you guys were right.

I really wanted to believe that last year was not a fluke and not all about Iowa's favorable schedule. Clearly, that is not the case.

If Kirk Ferentz was ever a top tier coach in the country, by now that is a fleeting memory at best, because the game has clearly passed him by. If Ferentz was coaching in the SEC, he would have been gone a long time ago. That's just reality--ask Les Miles. Fortunately for Kirk, he coaches at Iowa--where you are allowed to rest on your past laurels, and where 1 good season out of 5 mediocre ones affords you lucrative contract extensions. And most recently, a life-time one.

Noone should blame any recruits for decommitting, and I imagine there will be a couple who will in the upcoming weeks. Nor should anyone blame anyone for no longer supporting the Hawkeye football team or refusing to attend games so long as Kirk Ferentz is head coach. I, for one, am done and will not spend a single dime on Iowa football until Kirk Ferentz is relieved of his coaching duties. Thanks to Gary Barta, I will be saving money for quite some time.

Again, my apologies to those I attacked in my last post. You were 100% right and I was 100% wrong.

Piss up a rope, you johnny-come-lately.

 

[EZ2BJZ]

Piss up a rope, you johnny-come-lately.

Get bent, Hotel.

 

[iowalaw]

Apology accepted, as this is what I have been saying since I noticed the issues in game 1.

 

[laidbackdude2011]

If Ferentz was coaching in the SEC, he would have been gone a long time ago. That's just reality--ask Les Miles. Fortunately for Kirk, he coaches at Iowa--where you are allowed to rest on your past laurels, and where 1 good season out of 5 mediocre ones affords you lucrative contract extensions. And most recently, a life-time one.

Bingo

 

[rfgiowa]

Apology accepted.

 

[dbq hawk 32]

Piss up a rope, you johnny-come-lately.

We got a bad ass over here.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

There will always be "dead enders" that will support Ferentz.

The only way to impact things is to boycott games. Iowa is likely to finish winless at home in the Big Ten this year so you will be saving money and a lot of grief by not attending.

Regardless though, Iowa will have to live with many years of bad crowds because this extension now has the U of I held hostage for quite a while.

 

[Section8]

I posted a thread after the NDSU game attacking those who were complaining about the coaching staff. Well, I've come back to own up to the fact I was wrong and you guys were right.

I really wanted to believe that last year was not a fluke and not all about Iowa's favorable schedule. Clearly, that is not the case.

If Kirk Ferentz was ever a top tier coach in the country, by now that is a fleeting memory at best, because the game has clearly passed him by. If Ferentz was coaching in the SEC, he would have been gone a long time ago. That's just reality--ask Les Miles. Fortunately for Kirk, he coaches at Iowa--where you are allowed to rest on your past laurels, and where 1 good season out of 5 mediocre ones affords you lucrative contract extensions. And most recently, a life-time one.

Noone should blame any recruits for decommitting, and I imagine there will be a couple who will in the upcoming weeks. Nor should anyone blame anyone for no longer supporting the Hawkeye football team or refusing to attend games so long as Kirk Ferentz is head coach. I, for one, am done and will not spend a single dime on Iowa football until Kirk Ferentz is relieved of his coaching duties. Thanks to Gary Barta, I will be saving money for quite some time.

Again, my apologies to those I attacked in my last post. You were 100% right and I was 100% wrong.

I posted a thread after the NDSU game attacking those who were complaining about the coaching staff. Well, I've come back to own up to the fact I was wrong and you guys were right.

I really wanted to believe that last year was not a fluke and not all about Iowa's favorable schedule. Clearly, that is not the case.

If Kirk Ferentz was ever a top tier coach in the country, by now that is a fleeting memory at best, because the game has clearly passed him by. If Ferentz was coaching in the SEC, he would have been gone a long time ago. That's just reality--ask Les Miles. Fortunately for Kirk, he coaches at Iowa--where you are allowed to rest on your past laurels, and where 1 good season out of 5 mediocre ones affords you lucrative contract extensions. And most recently, a life-time one.

Noone should blame any recruits for decommitting, and I imagine there will be a couple who will in the upcoming weeks. Nor should anyone blame anyone for no longer supporting the Hawkeye football team or refusing to attend games so long as Kirk Ferentz is head coach. I, for one, am done and will not spend a single dime on Iowa football until Kirk Ferentz is relieved of his coaching duties. Thanks to Gary Barta, I will be saving money for quite some time.

Again, my apologies to those I attacked in my last post. You were 100% right and I was 100% wrong.

Fortunately for my wife and I we pulled the pin after the 2012 season. This after 33 years of season tickets and years of going to games before season tickets were needed. Sad. Guess the north endzone project will not be needed now.

 

[Hawktagonapus]

Stop supporting the team, much like the Lickliter years and they will be forced to do something different with the staff

Sadly the Lickliter years are likely yet to come. I have no faith that we'll be able to find a replacement when the time comes.

 

[TheRealHerky]

I no longer care. It's just entertainment. Watching better teams play instead of the garbage Iowa puts on the field keeps me a college football fan, but I no longer live and die Iowa football. It's not worth it.

 

[HotelAlphaWilcoKilo]

We got a bad ass over here.

And a dumbass over yon.

 

[EZ2BJZ]

And a dumbass over yon.

No, I think it is pretty clear the only dumbass on this thread is you.

 

[HotelAlphaWilcoKilo]

No, I think it is pretty clear the only dumbass on this thread is you.

Hee haw. Sez, the donkey who thought the coaching staff wasn't the problem. Your track record, look into it.

 

[RocknRollface]

I was very leary of last year being a fluke with what had preceeded it for the previous 10 years. 2 good, 8 mediocre to bad.

Last season Iowa had good QB play, (which has now been harnesed down a notch or two,) an incredibly weak schedule and all the breaks go their way.

We're now back to where we have most often been since 2004, mediocre to bad. Sloppy, boring and stuborn about it.

Its not a big surprise.

 

[RocknRollface]

Reality is, to be competitive with Harbaugh, Meyer, Dantonio and Chryst we need someone like Bret Beilema.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

I posted a thread after the NDSU game attacking those who were complaining about the coaching staff. Well, I've come back to own up to the fact I was wrong and you guys were right.

I really wanted to believe that last year was not a fluke and not all about Iowa's favorable schedule. Clearly, that is not the case.

If Kirk Ferentz was ever a top tier coach in the country, by now that is a fleeting memory at best, because the game has clearly passed him by. If Ferentz was coaching in the SEC, he would have been gone a long time ago. That's just reality--ask Les Miles. Fortunately for Kirk, he coaches at Iowa--where you are allowed to rest on your past laurels, and where 1 good season out of 5 mediocre ones affords you lucrative contract extensions. And most recently, a life-time one.

Noone should blame any recruits for decommitting, and I imagine there will be a couple who will in the upcoming weeks. Nor should anyone blame anyone for no longer supporting the Hawkeye football team or refusing to attend games so long as Kirk Ferentz is head coach. I, for one, am done and will not spend a single dime on Iowa football until Kirk Ferentz is relieved of his coaching duties. Thanks to Gary Barta, I will be saving money for quite some time.

Again, my apologies to those I attacked in my last post. You were 100% right and I was 100% wrong.

Nobody has ever been 100% right on HR forum.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

It's a disaster that's for sure. Any momentum this program built last year is now gone.

Bad coaching, boring football and apathy before last year has all returned this year.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

Reality is, to be competitive with Harbaugh, Meyer, Dantonio and Chryst we need someone like Bret Beilema.

Yup, that's football. I don't mean that as a smart ass comment either. But football coaches have to be aggressive.

 

[EZ2BJZ]

Hee haw. Sez, the donkey who thought the coaching staff wasn't the problem. Your track record, look into it.

Well, I learned. That's what intelligent people do. Idiots make simple-minded, obnoxious quips that make no sense. That would be you, Eeyore.

 

[General Roman Malaise]

I no longer care. It's just entertainment. Watching better teams play instead of the garbage Iowa puts on the field keeps me a college football fan, but I no longer live and die Iowa football. It's not worth it.

Dude, I couldn't say it better myself. I found myself more excited for the 2:30 slot of games than watching the Hawks. Ended up multitasking with the game in the background.

We are so effing boring and plodding.

 

[nu2u]

Let the season play out.

 

[scotthawk1964]

I would say that from reading some of these posts that many of you need to get a life. But I guess since we live in the world of instant gratification I can understand it.

 

[scotthawk1964]

You people do realize that the Hawkeyes at this point of the season have no more losses then Oklahoma, LSU, Notre Dame and Florida State? With the exception of LSU I doubt the fan bases are clamoring for Jimbo Fisher and Bob Stoops to be replaced. You also realize that these four schools all have Elite Talent, unlike our beloved Hawkeyes. Yeah I know, they lost to better teams than Iowa has lost to, but with the exception of Oklahoma vs. Ohio State they didn't lose to better Talent. Iowa has been beaten by teams with similar Talent.

 

[BigDan21]

You people do realize that the Hawkeyes at this point of the season have no more losses then Oklahoma, LSU, Notre Dame and Florida State? With the exception of LSU I doubt the fan bases are clamoring for Jimbo Fisher and Bob Stoops to be replaced. You also realize that these four schools all have Elite Talent, unlike our beloved Hawkeyes. Yeah I know, they lost to better teams than Iowa has lost to, but with the exception of Oklahoma vs. Ohio State they didn't lose to better Talent. Iowa has been beaten by teams with similar Talent.

Iowa has more talent than NDSU and NW. We just under utilize it with our ultra-conservative, predictable style.

There's two solutions to your point.
1. Better play calling and schemes.
2. Recruit better talent.

 

[scotthawk1964]

Talent-wise in my estimation is that if you average all the players out between Iowa and Northwestern, the average star rating would be similar. As far as schemes no argument here. However I think that most of the offense has problems come from shooting themselves in the foot, either by penalties or lack of execution. The defense needs to stop the run and get some pressure on the opposing team quarterback, whether they need to Blitz every down or change schemes, they need to do something. But my main point was to those people who say the sky is falling, it's falling the same speed and Norman Oklahoma, Tallahassee Florida, Baton Rouge Louisiana and South Bend Indiana as it is in Iowa City. And I don't hear cries for their coaches head because they lost a couple of games. Except for Les Miles of course.

 

[Senor Martinez]

But my main point was to those people who say the sky is falling, it's falling the same speed and Norman Oklahoma, Tallahassee Florida, Baton Rouge Louisiana and South Bend Indiana as it is in Iowa City. And I don't hear cries for their coaches head because they lost a couple of games.

Lol! Guessing you don't spend a lot of time on Oklahoma or Notre Dame message boards.

 

[scotthawk1964]

I sure don't. Lol I actually have a life so I don't spend much time on other team boards. My guess is that Notre Dame fans would not be unhappy to see Kelly go, but I doubt that Oklahoma and Florida State are calling for their coaches head. Yes I could be wrong. Lol but fans should always be aware of what they wish for. Lol Hawk fans included

 

[Senor Martinez]

I sure don't. Lol I actually have a life so I don't spend much time on other team boards. My guess is that Notre Dame fans would not be unhappy to see Kelly go, but I doubt that Oklahoma and Florida State are calling for their coaches head. Yes I could be wrong. Lol but fans should always be where of what they wish for. Lol Hawk fans included

You've got the Lol part right, at least.

By the way, if you're THE ScotHawk who used to make the highlight videos back in the day, then I take it back. Your Bob Sanders video was the stuff of legends.

 

[And1Hawk]

I sure don't. Lol I actually have a life so I don't spend much time on other team boards. My guess is that Notre Dame fans would not be unhappy to see Kelly go, but I doubt that Oklahoma and Florida State are calling for their coaches head. Yes I could be wrong. Lol but fans should always be aware of what they wish for. Lol Hawk fans included

You have to be joking. Outside of Duke beating ND these programs are losing to much better teams than what we have played. We have not played a good team yet - you do realize this?

 

[scotthawk1964]

You have to be joking. Outside of Duke beating ND these programs are losing to much better teams than what we have played. We have not played a good team yet - you do realize this?

My point was that these teams have lost multiple games. They have lost to teams that have equivalent talent to them, which for the most part is what Iowa does. Maybe if you read the whole thread you would have understood that. Are you saying that Duke has as much talent as Notre Dame? And I guarantee that LSU has more Talent than Wisconsin. And my guess is that Florida State has more Talent then North Carolina. Other than that, the teams Oklahoma lost to had similar Talent.