I don’t even have to guess who you are talking too. In my 22ish years on here I’ve never seen a rival fan as obsessed as he is!
Pat Fitzgerald Suspended...NOW FIRED....Has Hired a High-Profile Attorney to Fight Back
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I don’t even have to guess who you are talking too. In my 22ish years on here I’ve never seen a rival fan as obsessed as he is!
None of the assistants knew what was going on, of course....
How in the he.......................... c'mon some of them knew! Who was teaching the dry hump moves?
The fact that the hazing practices were widespread and no one complained at the time isn’t a defense. Not many players will confront this stuff while they’re still on the team.
Exactly. They’d get run off the team.
You would think there would have been a lot of guys entering the portal...especially if theirs was entered.
Too soon?
I've had him banned 3 times. I think he's ready to hit the showers.
Why keep defending Fat Pat?
Doesn't anyone read the reports that are coming out?
Doesn't anyone read the reports that are coming out?
Several of them were hired since the end of last season, including the DC (prospective interim HC), so it's quite possible that they didn't know. But if Fitz needs to be fired, then it's not clear why the holdover assistants get to stay - at least not based on publicly available information.
Well, winning record or not he had a lot of success against Iowa.
9-8 against Iowa...pretty much the same as his overall record.
Thanks to the last few seasons. For a while his record was far better than it should have been against Iowa.
True. Watching them celebrate the west title in Kinnick in 18 after the Hawks could only muster 10 pts was a real kick in the balls. They locked it up with 2 games remaining that year
That along with ISU's success against KFz are the low points (competitively speaking) of his tenure
To be fair, Ferentz has done a lot to address this and at least with ISU, it's not like they weren't fielding competitive teams during that time period. But yeah, for a while it was inexcusable considering the teams Iowa had versus the teams they were playing.
The ISU losses, like some other "upsets" were a byproduct of his "keep it close and conservative" approach...where you wait the other team out and hope they make a mistake instead of going for the kill. It can backfire when the other team plays a good game. (see NDSU).
Playing not to lose...as it was sometimes called. It could also be called waiting for the other team to beat themselves...rather than just beating them yourself.
That has been an issue for a large part of his career for sure. Although the last few years the offense has been so bad they couldn't go for the kill if the other team walked up to them and died right in front of them.
Well, I'm sure "they get to stay" because right now, how the hell would they put a staff together with camp starting in a couple of weeks. Still that doesn't mean they will be retained once a new HC is hired, most likely at the conclusion of this upcoming season.
You are 100% correct at least as I see it… And as you remember our fans whined & threw a fit about it while he was here but now, in hindsight, it does look like KF generally does know what’s going on in those kind of personal things!
And now he’ll have to live with it for the rest of his life!
Yeah ... likely more of the "buck stops here" sort of situation as it relates to Fitz. The assistants don't have the power that the head honcho had. Thus, it's not an instance of whether the assistants knew or not ... but rather, at the most fundamental level, it was Fitz's responsibility to keep his guys "safe." The failure is ultimately on him.
My thoughts as well. You have to keep the staff together for recruiting and to try to keep guys from bolting to the portal.
Don't know, BUT "any good" and even fielding a team are two different deals. I mean if they let all the assistants hit the door with Fitz, who would they get with camp starting in days? Who would walk into that mess......
Funny thing about that… Fitz was the kind of guy that could rally a team that was supposed to be awful and somehow find eight wins, and a big 10 championship… Right?!
This changes the narrative…. Just like Kirk he is definitely replaceable, but I’d be shocked if they get it done in one hirer.
I dunno, when the Hawks have lost to ISU for the last 16 seasons they are somewhere between bad and abysmal. The only times ISU beat Iowa with a winning record were 2005 and prior, those most recent 3 losses were in Kinnick too
2022: 4-8
2014: 2-10
2012: 6-7
2011: 6-7
2007: 3-9
That recent win streak created a lot of goodwill and finally got Kirk over .500 vs them in 2017, can't let that erode by making that 2 in a row vs clowns in september.
If you mean Wadley yeah.
Unfortunately with $250,000 in his pocket.
Really a shame this did not go to court.
it's too late for players to enter the transfer portal potty but damn, imagine if they were allowed to
A couple things here… number one, we have lost some baffling games and I will readily admit that is what has turned off the 15% of the fanbase like you BL and I’m not screwing with you. I often disagree with you and many time find you unfair but I have begun to see you actually are relatively reasonable and again that probably feels backhanded. I don’t mean it to be, but I don’t want to pretend like I always agree with you…
With that said we have had some head scratching losses versus ISU, NW, Purdue, Western Michigan. I mean some real shit ball teams… of which I don’t consider North Dakota state by the way, although yes, we should’ve beat them ! Keep in mind, so did Hayden but I digress.
But we also started 0-4 against Iowa State and it took him a while to dig out of that & to their credit, It really is a true rivalry game. Dan McCarney made it really tough on us early on and then Paul Rhodes, who I don’t think was a very good coach, definitely knew how to fire them up for the Iowa game!
We have improved that “bad loss thing“ demonstratively… That doesn’t change the fact that we still have lost to plenty of teams that we had more talent than, but let’s keep in mind those teams also think they should beat Iowa, so there is that!
Just my 2 cents!
Just pure speculation on my part, but I would have to believe with extenuating circumstances they would indeed be allowed to transfer, now it remains to be seen how many people will grab them this late in the game but I would expect if they’re good enough, they will
