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When the 2024 college football season commences, it will mark Kirk Ferentz’s 26th season at the helm for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Despite an offense that ranked last nationally in total offense and second-to-last in the country in scoring offense, Ferentz and Iowa posted a 10-4 (7-2 Big Ten) record in 2023.
The offensive futility did finally result in then-interim athletics director Beth Goetz electing not to retain former offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz. After a lengthy search, Iowa replaced Brian Ferentz with former Western Michigan head coach Tim Lester.
Even with that offensive uncertainty and the general offensive ineptitude of late, Iowa has recorded a 28-13 (19-8 Big Ten) mark over the past three seasons.
As far as pressure goes, one would think that Ferentz isn’t feeling a ton of it. On3’s Jesse Simonton mostly agrees.
Simonton assigned a pressure gauge ranking of “medium” to Ferentz in his Big Ten pressure check rankings entering 2024.
Kirk Ferentz was finally forced to move on from his son Brian Ferentz, and if Tim Lester can take a historically awful unit into one that’s simply bad, then Iowa could absolutely contend for a spot in the Big Ten title game in 2024.
If Ferentz weren’t consistently winning at least nine games (four of the last five full seasons), then he’d be under much more pressure with the team’s offensive ineptitude, the issues with nepotism and other problems within the program (lawsuits, firing his S&C coordinator in recent years, etc.). While he lost a public battle with the school’s new AD over his son’s employment, his job remains fairly secure until he decides he wants to hang it up. – Simonton, On3.
In his pressure check rankings, Simonton had four rankings of increasing pressure: “low,” “medium,” “high” and “extreme.” From that standpoint, Ferentz…
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Author : Hawkeyes Wire
Publish date : 2024-07-02 21:45:05
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