Kirk apologists... sell me on why he should stay past this year?
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This. Well written. As a Swarm donor, I’m torn.
I often appreciate Rico’s posts, regarding donating to the Swarm to help affect change. However, I increasingly question the return on the use of those donations. I don’t object to financial support, but I do object to pissing it away.
At this point, I may as well redirect that support to our other charities. Better impact on people’s lives. Predictably better results.
They will soon be 5 - 5 with 2 games left and in all likelihood end up 6 - 6
I don’t think you understand the joke.
And Nebraska hasn’t beaten anyone worth a shit.
You’re not a very good poster. Work to be better.
I think any post that references 1960-1970s is a clear sign of sarcasm….even tho there are posters here deathly afraid of Iowa going back to 1 win seasons
Agreed, but that would mean the only possible way to potentially beat O$U is to go against tendencies…something that is foreign to Ferentz.
Before 81 Iowa was traditionally a 4-5 win program over it's history. Why aspire to be something we had never been before? Because the point of competition is to aspire to be the best.
The WORST fans are the ones who don't aspire to be better. They are what is wrong with Hawkeye athletics. I personally think they are I-club/Athletic department plants to execute KF's number 1 goal at Iowa: LOWER FANS EXPECTATIONS.
Once that is accomplished, you can convince idiots at the U to pay someone 7 million to deliver the most boring product in P4 football.
Well Vandy beat Alabama and Marshall managed 2 TD’s against OSU when the game was still competitive. Iowa can do better. Maybe not beat OSU but we have to stop fielding the worst offenses in college football.
I expend all my kindness on youth.
I have no compassion for adults.
Have a good night.
I wonder in the NIL era if long contracts are necessary anymore.
Is an old coach like Kirk really going to leave without that perpetual 5-6 year deal?
Do players really care? Show me the money or I walk.
Upsets happen. Even to Alabama. We don't have the worst offense in college football. That was last year, and Kirk pulled ten wins out his ass. Might do it again.
explain to me how you would have 200 plus wins as opposed to a meager 199. your a great coach, right ? what would have you done different? look, i get it i get frustrated as much as the next guy but all in all he's done a god damned good job.
That OL has been hit or mainly miss for 3-4 years now . Maybe some new blood won’t hurt .
Because there isn't enough NIL to win and he's not going to embarrass the school.
It's going to be a real shit show when he retires.
It's going to be a real shit show when he retires.
Can we get over the legendary coach crap?
" a god damned good job", at what?, being mediocre? The last 6 or 7 games that Iowa has played a big time or elite team have been embarrassments and blow outs.
Do you count his losses too? He's the all time NCAA leader in losses. Longevity cuts both ways.
So we have to be part of the problem that is paying noodle arm, slippery hands McNamara in order to have an opinion?
If this is the best that NIL money can bring to Iowa, and it’s going to hamper the coaches from playing the guy that gives us a chance to win, then consider me one that says F*{% You and NIL!
If you haven't stepped up to help then shut up!
This is the end of the Fry era 2.0. Writing is on the wall. It’s eerie how similar it feels.
I’m trying to think….. was it 6 some years ago when the media was all about hyping Kirk 2.0 and “New Kirk” because he was doing things like going for it on 4th down that he never did before? He ended up doing that for one season despite the fact we had a ton of success doing it.
I think people appreciate the logical thinking he has, but the excruciatingly over the top conservatism that he seems to constantly show anymore is what people are so damn sick and tired of. He took two time outs and probably started hyperventilating at the thought of going for it on 4th and 1 at midfield and just couldn’t let it ride. I think fans are ok with taking chances and a HC needs to be, also. He doesn’t want to take any chances and that is what pisses people off.
So we can have more players like Cade M? No thank you.
We do not need to go back any farther than our last coach. Let's take the years 1992, 1993 and 1994 when in the middle of his Fry's coaching career at Iowa we had 3 non-winning seasons in a row and we were 16-18-1 over that period. In 1993 we were 6-6 and had no wins against a team with a winning record. We beat a 4-6-1 Tulsa by 1 point, and a 3-8 ISU by 3 points and a 2-9 Northwestern by 4 points. Maybe winning at Iowa is not as easy as many fans think.
Translation = "I'll bitch but I won't lift a finger to help change things".
Kirk has made around $70 Million while being the HC at Iowa. The University doesn't owe him anything else, including the right to decide when his time is up at Iowa.
Iowa's last victory over a a ranked opponent came in Oct of 2001. That's ridiculous.
Iowa's last victory over a a ranked opponent came in Oct of 2001. That's ridiculous.
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To be fair, other issues and punting is winning have wiped out clock management mistakes. I thought I has seen the low of QB play during the Jake Christiansen years, man I was wrong after the last 2 years.
What would change? You have the same person offering players, why throw money in the trash?
He shouldn't stay as the game has way passed him by he can't even coach a damn Offensive line now either
