Time for a new regime - the next coach will be:

[jonesy5960]

Iowa is a top half Big 10 program that will never be a top 4 Big 10 football program until Kirk and his stubborn, outdated ideas are gone.

Iowa can still get a top line new coach.

My personal preferences for the next coach:

1. Bob Stoops - don't say it's impossible, give him 10 million a year for 3 years and watch him cook.

2. Chris Klieman - i think he would jump if the offer was rich enough

3. Mark Stoops - probably the most realistic option out there

Iowa will never be a top 4 Big10 football program regardless of who is coaching. Those spots are currently reserved for OSU, Michigan, PSU, and Oregon and that won't be changing in the foreseeable future. Iowa is a tier 2 program along with the likes of USC, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and now Indiana and illinois.

 

[Igor Stravinsky10]

How does the veto work? Offense and defense? Hand signal or what?

Headset. No hand signals. Are you a little bit retarded?

 

[hahkize]

Once a prospective replacement coach takes a look at Iowa's NIL commitment the next words out of their mouth is "no thanks".

The NIL participation will change if Iowa gets the right coach.

 

[BDE420]

Kellen Moore Phil run the D

Kellen Moore - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[RicoSuave102954]

The NIL participation will change if Iowa gets the right coach.

Nah, it costs nothing to sit back and bitch and moan. The Iowa fan base is full of bitch and moaners.

 

[tdburg11]

Scheelhaase would be a great candidate but no HC experience makes it tough. The “he can beat Campbell” is not part of the equation. Iowa will never define themselves by ISU.

Well we had better start defining ourselves by ISU because we are looking up at them in every meaningful sport.

 

[Ronman]

Bob Stoops has to be in his mid 60's. I'm afraid that ship has sailed. Probably my biggest regret of being an Iowa football fan was hiring Ferentz instead of Stoops.

 

[squeezebox]

Well we had better start defining ourselves by ISU because we are looking up at them in every meaningful sport.

outside of mens basketball, what other sport is Iowa looking "up" in? I am waiting to just laugh when you say football. 3 of the last 10, LMFAO.

 

[tdburg11]

outside of mens basketball, what other sport is Iowa looking "up" in? I am waiting to just laugh when you say football. 3 of the last 10, LMFAO.

Football comes to mind.

 

[tdburg11]

Ferentz will coach us into another loss vs ISU in 2025. Hawks looking at 4-8, but KF will get his beloved record and a lot of people here will keep heads in the sand. You can erect your statue and all hail your boy.

 

[squeezebox]

Ferentz will coach us into another loss vs ISU in 2025. Hawks looking at 4-8, but KF will get his beloved record and a lot of people here will keep heads in the sand. You can erect your statue and all hail your boy.

Even Gronk know this not good trolling

 

[ToddStrong]

You can have Mark Stoops. He has a six million dollar buyout because finishing fifth is apparently the ceiling for Kentucky football. Just don't expect much better offensive play calling. First down you'll run up the middle. Second down you'll have split backs and throw a five yard out. Third down you'll see a play action or empty set with the QB only seeing two options despite having five receiving options.

 

[swihawk]

The fan base has become beyond exhausted by the lame excuses and non answers after losing games we should have won.

you represent the fan base?

I doubt it. I suspect there are many more Kirk fans than haters.

 

[chuck285]

Well we had better start defining ourselves by ISU because we are looking up at them in every meaningful sport.

How many meaningful sports are there? This year we lost in football and basketball. But Carver has 15,000 tickets sold in wbb and wrestling. They were lucky to win in football and we do suck in basketball. But we kill them in wrestling and wbb every year. So it's not as bad as you think it is.....

 

[eyesofhawk]

Well, it's not like he's immortal.

He'll be 70 before next season. The end of his career is far, far closer than the start.

There's no harm in talking about what the next step could be. It will be here soon.

No harm in supporting KF either.

Start up a KF appreciation thread

 

[eyesofhawk]

No. KF's enormous ego would not allow this. He still has veto power on every playcall. The losses to ISU, UCLA and Missouri are a direct result of this. After all these years, I'm still not sure that KF understands that being up 13-0 in the 2nd quarter is not a win.

EVERY head coach has veto power on EVERY play call.

That's what a head coach is.

Did you even watch those games? You think KF changed multiple play calls inside the 5 yard line vs ISU to passes and a cute jet sweep? You think KF changed the calls the last two series vs Mizzou to abandon the run? You think KF changed calls vs UCLA to the ones where Sully gets hurt and throws Int's, and the D can't stop the run? Learn the game

 

[eyesofhawk]

I want him gone as much as anyone but it isn't going to happen as long as the stadium is at least 3/4 full.

Incredibly ignorant

 

[eyesofhawk]

He’s not going anywhere, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t. He should have been long gone five years ago. After his 4-8 season next year, even the dumbest of dumb shits on this site will start to realize it’s over. They will all come out of the woodwork like it’s some sort of newsflash that his time is long past.

2018-23 was KF's winningest stretch at Iowa, so there's that

 

[eyesofhawk]

Bob Stoops has to be in his mid 60's. I'm afraid that ship has sailed. Probably my biggest regret of being an Iowa football fan was hiring Ferentz instead of Stoops.

You wish Iowa went with a guy that's no longer coaching? 😂

 

[eyesofhawk]

Football comes to mind.

😂🤣😂🤣

ISU's coach is 2-6 vs Iowa.

Their football program isn't even in the same conversation as Iowa's

 

[Ronman]

You wish Iowa went with a guy that's no longer coaching? 😂

Absolutely! We could have had a couple of decades of Stoops playing modern football and I seriously doubt that Bob would have put us through what we just went through with Ferentz and the soap opera.

 

[swihawk]

Absolutely! We could have had a couple of decades of Stoops playing modern football and I seriously doubt that Bob would have put us through what we just went through with Ferentz and the soap opera.

The soap opera is created by internet posters.

 

[eyesofhawk]

Absolutely! We could have had a couple of decades of Stoops playing modern football and I seriously doubt that Bob would have put us through what we just went through with Ferentz and the soap opera.

Modern football is way overstated and isn't necessarily better football.

Imagine what KF would have done with the talent/resources Stoops had at OU.

And again, Stoops hasn't been coaching for a while now, so you'd have to make a case for an imaginary replacement coach too

 

[eyesofhawk]

The soap opera is created by internet posters.

One of the best posts of the year!

 

[onionman1]

Incredibly ignorant

No, he's 100% spot on.

 

[Ronman]

The soap opera is created by internet posters.

So it had nothing to do with his hiring of his incompetent son and then fighting to retain him even though we finished last in offense in Div I football? The results of which made Iowa a laughing stock to the football media. Any of this ring a bell?

 

[GunnerHawk]

you represent the fan base?

I doubt it. I suspect there are many more Kirk fans than haters.

I agree 100%. Definitely a lot more Kirk supporters, especially the big money folks. Kirk will be here until he rides into the sunset.

 

[grayhair81]

Incredibly ignorant

So KF might get replaced if the stadium is at least 3/4 full? Not seeing it.

 

[eyesofhawk]

So KF might get replaced if the stadium is at least 3/4 full? Not seeing it.

KF isn't getting fired. PERIOD.

I find the thought process of intentionally not supporting your team, for the purpose of producing a coaching change, to be incredibly short-sighted and immature.

AD's are plenty capable of doing their jobs, including making coaching changes.

Meanwhile, lack of support, and negativity can contribute to a less thriving program, and less healthy environment for the program to operate in.

A less attractive program can make it harder to get good recruits. The negativity/lack of attendance can make it harder to retain your best players. A struggling program will be less likely to secure monetary donations. And if a coaching change does take place, all of this will make it harder to get interest from the best candidates

 

[swihawk]

So it had nothing to do with his hiring of his incompetent son and then fighting to retain him even though we finished last in offense in Div I football? The results of which made Iowa a laughing stock to the football media. Any of this ring a bell?

Media picks up and parrots the bullshit on the internet. Pundits aren't much better. Mostly hating to see a team winning on defense and special teams alone.

Yes, I remember an elite level of coaching to win 10 games with deacon hill.

Don't you?

 

[grayhair81]

KF isn't getting fired. PERIOD.

I find the thought process of intentionally not supporting your team, for the purpose of producing a coaching change, to be incredibly short-sighted and immature.

AD's are plenty capable of doing their jobs, including making coaching changes.

Meanwhile, lack of support, and negativity can contribute to a less thriving program, and less healthy environment for the program to operate in.

A less attractive program can make it harder to get good recruits. The negativity/lack of attendance can make it harder to retain your best players. A struggling program will be less likely to secure monetary donations. And if a coaching change does take place, all of this will make it harder to get interest from the best candidates

A coach who is stubborn and risk-averse also makes it harder to get good recruits. The kind of offensive skill players necessary to build a roster that can compete for a CFP spot aren't coming here as long as KF is still HC. And Iowa literally led the conference in attrition pre-NIL. Was it negativity from the fan base or the coaching staff that encouraged 8-10 guys to leave every year?

 

[eyesofhawk]

A coach who is stubborn and risk-averse also makes it harder to get good recruits. The kind of offensive skill players necessary to build a roster that can compete for a CFP spot aren't coming here as long as KF is still HC. And Iowa literally led the conference in attrition pre-NIL. Was it negativity from the fan base or the coaching staff that encouraged 8-10 guys to leave every year?

Call KF want you want. What he is is a coach that's had a winning program for over two decades. He teaches great technique and develops his players to get to the pros. If that doesn't interest recruits, they aren't the type of player I'm interested in.

If you think any coach is going to have Iowa competing for CPF spots on a yearly basis, I'm not sure what to tell you. KF has a team good enough to do that every few years or so. And it has nothing to do with a roster built on skill players. But since you mentioned it, isn't Gronowski supposed to be pretty good? How'd he get here?

Pre-NIL attrition stats mean nothing. Iowa has been retaining its best players recently. And the point that a less thriving program with less fan support would make it more likely for players to want to leave remains

 

[Hawky42]

Kirk will go on for another 6 years I predict.

 

[Iron Doc]

😂🤣😂🤣

ISU's coach is 2-6 vs Iowa.

Their football program isn't even in the same conversation as Iowa's

We lost to them this year.
An abomination, but they ARE in the same conversation.

 

[Gonzo Bloor]

I have no clue who the next coach should be but I always roll my eyes when I see the same lists of guys like Stoops, Stoops, Klieman, Scheelhause, etc.

It's beyond baffling to me why so many people think our next HC needs to have some prior connection to Iowa, and/or needs to be some KF clone who brings the same blue-collar, unsexy, aw shucksy persona as KF.

It makes ZERO sense.

Find a young climber who's going to bring a new and much-needed energy to the program, someone who's achieved a good level of success regardless if it's been at a lower level, someone who understands the current landscape of college football and someone who's going to embrace things like NIL and those other realities.

In 1979 we hired a guy who had literally never stepped foot in the state of Iowa before taking the job, and that worked out pretty well.

 

[icwesthawk]

Call KF want you want.

An old football coach who runs an antiquated system that gets exposed whenever we play teams who have out recruited us and sometimes by teams that haven't

 

[bradaf]

I have no clue who the next coach should be but I always roll my eyes when I see the same lists of guys like Stoops, Stoops, Klieman, Scheelhause, etc.

It's beyond baffling to me why so many people think our next HC needs to have some prior connection to Iowa, and/or needs to be some KF clone who brings the same blue-collar, unsexy, aw shucksy persona as KF.

It makes ZERO sense.

Find a young climber who's going to bring a new and much-needed energy to the program, someone who's achieved a good level of success regardless if it's been at a lower level, someone who understands the current landscape of college football and someone who's going to embrace things like NIL and those other realities.

In 1979 we hired a guy who had literally never stepped foot in the state of Iowa before taking the job, and that worked out pretty well.

Who are the sexy coaches you think Iowa should go after? Put some names out there.

Do the fans who want a new coach think Iowa’s next coach will have as much success as Ferentz. The list of schools that have won 8+ games the last 9 years are Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, Ohio State, and Iowa.

College Football is about who gets the best players, the state of Alabama’s 2026 class has 2 5 stars and 18 4 stars, Georgia has 1 5 star and 57 4 stars, Ohio has 1 5 star and 14 4 stars. Alabama and Georgia’s neighbor Florida has 1 5 stat and 68 4 stars. Iowa typically has 1-3 4 star recruits in the state.

 

[eyesofhawk]

I have no clue who the next coach should be but I always roll my eyes when I see the same lists of guys like Stoops, Stoops, Klieman, Scheelhause, etc.

It's beyond baffling to me why so many people think our next HC needs to have some prior connection to Iowa, and/or needs to be some KF clone who brings the same blue-collar, unsexy, aw shucksy persona as KF.

It makes ZERO sense.

Find a young climber who's going to bring a new and much-needed energy to the program, someone who's achieved a good level of success regardless if it's been at a lower level, someone who understands the current landscape of college football and someone who's going to embrace things like NIL and those other realities.

In 1979 we hired a guy who had literally never stepped foot in the state of Iowa before taking the job, and that worked out pretty well.

It has to be someone cut from the Iowa cloth. Or at least someone who cares about the state and its people. And someone who understands what Hawkeye athletics means to the people of this state.

Must relate well to the people of this state and continue to dominate in-state recruiting. If ISU starts to gain inroads with local recruits, Iowa is in trouble.

Must be someone committed to defense, the run game, and special teams. Must be someone who understands special teams and field position in bad weather.

Must be someone who builds the program around local talent to play a tough and physical brand of football. Trying to beat USC at the speed game makes absolutely no sense.

No visor wearing video gamers that disrespect field position

 

[Gonzo Bloor]

It has to be someone cut from the Iowa cloth. Or at least someone who cares about the state and its people. And someone who understands what Hawkeye athletics means to the people of this state.

Must relate well to the people of this state and continue to dominate in-state recruiting. If ISU starts to gain inroads with local recruits, Iowa is in trouble.

Must be someone committed to defense, the run game, and special teams. Must be someone who understands special teams and field position in bad weather.

Must be someone who builds the program around local talent to play a tough and physical brand of football. Trying to beat USC at the speed game makes absolutely no sense.

No visor wearing video gamers that disrespect field position

No, it doesn't. Lol.

And of course based on all of your must haves, the next coach must be Kirk Ferentz. Lol.

 

[eyesofhawk]

We lost to them this year.
An abomination, but they ARE in the same conversation.

You either have an awfully high opinion of ISU or an awfully low opinion of Iowa. Because there isn't anything factual to support your claim.

If ISU ever was in the same conversation as Iowa, they aren't anymore because I'm done talking about it 🤔