With that experience he is certainly qualified. A QB coach and an OC should have an excellent understanding of what is necessary for WR's to be successful.
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With his addition to the Iowa staff, how did our QBs and offense become better?
The way I see it. Bud is a lame hire. But he certainly has experience with QBs and OC. He will be running the offense on the sidelines with Lester in the press box. Still think they could have done better but if Lester likes to coach from the box it is somewhat smart to have a guy on the sidelines to manage players
Well, you’d think that Lester would have been able to handpick the WR coach, since that guy was going to be the de facto field OC. I have a hard time believing that KF’s leftover failed analyst was Lester‘s first choice.
He was an analyst/consultant. Now he will be able to coach the WR's. Kirk obviously thinks he will be able to help us on the field and in recruiting. That is good with me. Go Hawks !
Kirk says alligators are so mean because they have all those teeth and no toothbrush. GTFOH 😂
He was a "gift from heaven" to help with the offense last year...the WORLD saw how the offense turned out. And you didn't answer my question.
We won’t know anything until September. Even the spring / fall highlight reels and practices show a completely different offense than what happens on Saturdays.
We will know exactly who’s in charge and how the season will go when we have a 3rd and 8.
Draw or 4 yard sideline out — nothing changes and season of misery for offense follows
ANYTHING ELSE — maybe there’s some hope
We will know exactly who’s in charge and how the season will go when we have a 3rd and 8.
Draw or 4 yard sideline out — nothing changes and season of misery for offense follows
ANYTHING ELSE — maybe there’s some hope
At that point, should've just let Hodge take the WRs too
How is it just automatically “good” with you?
After alllllllll of these continued failures on offense?
Because Kirk said so, and he's infallible, like God.
There are too many people that would want KF to stop aging and coach Iowa forever, regardless of the progression of college football.
Kirk, please stop bringing stuff into the house that came from the curb from wisconsin
It will be interesting to see. I don't think we'll sell out over the summer like last season; I don't think the excitement of getting rid of BF will match the excitement of bringing in McNamara. The good news for Iowa is that the the home conference slate is good, and the two rivals (Wisk, Neb) are November games, which means that people are probably more likely to decide before the season they want to attend those, compared to if Northwestern were a November game.
Attendance will be very good at minimum. Iowa football Saturdays are tradition and full of fanfare. Fans are much less likely to abandon the football team based on results compared to the basketball team...
Exactly. It would take years of losing football to put a dent in the attendance at Kinnick.
I don't know if people realize it, but Iowa won 10 games last year.
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I could see ticket sales greatly depend on what the Spring game looks like. If it is the SSDOC, then folks (especially the donors) need to let the AD know they are unhappy.
ISU and Washington will help as well rivalry games against Bucky and Lil' Debbie. It's a weird schedule with two 4 week gaps between home games. Scarcity always helps.
But if the offense continues to look pathetic...you never know. It's not outrageous to envision coming home 2-3 or 3-2 to play Washington.
lol. Will be sold out except maybe the first one because it’s Labor Day weekend.
Sell outs. All of them. Only one maybe not will be the first one on Labor Day weekend.
I personally think he's pretty safe. They seem to be getting away from recruiting "Big Ten" ready lineman and recruiting tall, lanky, athletes who they can mold. Their bread and butter. Don't think that'll change in a year.
Reality here is a lot of folks on the staff are safer than we want to believe. Kirk loathed the ever changing coaching landscape when with Belichik and I don't see it changing after 20 years.
Hawk fans were one bad call on Cooper away from a 7-0 home slate last year...and with all the rivals plus national title game WASH at home next year...sellout season.
Now if we lose to ISU, Wis,NW,and Neb this year 2025 could be different.
Now if we lose to ISU, Wis,NW,and Neb this year 2025 could be different.
Nah. In that scenario, the fan base would be revitalized by the excitement of having a new HC at long last.
You think he'd retire or be pushed out for losing 4 or 5 games? I don't.
The scenario described above had 4 HOME losses. 4 home loss plus a guaranteed loss at OSU plus potential losses at Minn and at UCLA puts us at 7 losses. If that happens, then yeah, I could certainly see him step away.
KF would not survive another season if he lost at home to all of those teams mentioned (which would almost certainly include multiple road losses and maybe even another home L to Wash). Gary Horseface ain't the A.D. no more.
