I have realized that it was never KOK holding the Iowa offense back. It was Captain Kirk playing “not to lose.” When KOK was allowed to open up his playbook, he had some nifty stuff, like the fake into the line with short yardage and Stanzi’s pass to a wide open, all alone tight end [...]

I have only one more comment about Ferentz-Davis and the predictable offenses KF has put together, and which have bottomed with Davis this year:Albert Einstein summed it up with this quote, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Ferentz will never change his way of thinking and now Barta [...]

I agree with you, John E. The mistakes are fixable, and even often avoidable. During the Purdue game, with both of the very critical delay of game penalties, which may have cost Iowa a win, three of us sat here yelling “Call time out.” If James VB didn’t have th presence of mind to do [...]

KF should donate at least $3 million of his salary to a charity this year. That would still leave him with at least $1 million with the rest of his overblown salary and perks and still make him grossly overpaid for his job this season. He took to potentially good teams the previous two years [...]

Mike, When KF had those wonderful seasons from 2002 through 2004, there was all that talk of him being hired away by the NFL. Hawkeye fans feared that nobody as good would take his place if he left. The program has returned to mediocrity, and KF’s salary is so high now that there would be [...]

While Ferentz is a great teacher–this has proven out by his taking supposedly mediocre recruits and turning them into excellent players–he is also a fear-based coach, one of those people who plays not to lose, rather than to win, at least most of the time. Fast Eddie Felson said it best in novella and movie [...]