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Who coaches where on Hawkeyes’ defense?
Iowa announces hirings of a new receivers coach and a new defensive coach
Bobby Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy was named Iowa’s new wide receivers coach Thursday. Jim Reid was named a new defensive coach.
Kennedy replaces Erik Campbell. Kennedy was most recently at Colorado. He coached from 2004 to 2010 at Texas, the receivers coach on the staff that had current Iowa offensive coordinator as its OC.
The only opening on the Hawkeyes’ defensive staff was defensive secondary coach, after Wednesday’s announced departure of secondary coach Darrell Wilson to Rutgers.
Jim Reid
Reid comes here after being the defensive coordinator at Virginia. He was dismissed from that position after the 2012 season. According to the bio of Reid posted at Hawkeyesports.com, he will “work with the Iowa defense.”
Will Reid settle into a position coach’s job? He was a head coach for 17 years, six at Massachusetts, nine at Richmond, and two at Virginia Military Institute.
Iowa’s current defensive coordinator is Phil Parker, who was promoted to that job following Norm Parker’s retirement after the 2011 season. Previously, Phil Parker was Iowa’s defensive secondary coach for 13 seasons.
Also in Iowa’s release was this: ” … former assistant Lester Erb has left the Iowa staff to pursue other opportunities.”
Erb had been a Hawkeye assistant for 13 years, the last five as running backs coach.
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All we Hawkeye fans can do is hope all these coaching changes work out better than they did last season. Of course, that’s almost certain, since there’s not much room to fall when you’re already sitting on the bottom.
It all goes back to the head man. If he continues to be stubborn, conservative, and aloof, he could have a staff of Vince Lombardi, Knute Rockne, Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Harbaugh brothers and the Kelly brothers and it wouldn’t matter. But if the head man gives his coaches room to be creative, aggressive, and adaptable, then maybe the Hawkeyes can be the Hawkeyes again.