With a win today Kirk Ferentz is set to win his 206th career game. That would break the B1G record set by Woody Hayes. Is it impressive? He has zero solo B1G Titles and one BCS Bowl win, that of course being in the 2009 Orange Bowl vs Georgia Tech. Iowa has shared two titles with Ohio State in 2002 and 2009. They feasted off being in the B1G West ,winning it three times. They lost a heartbreaker in 2015 to Michigan State, and got blown out by Michigan in 2021 and 2023.

Ferentz is in his 26th season coaching. Quantity over quality?

Gotta score more than 10 before I’m impressed 😜

Guy fires his son as OC only to field the exact same offense.

Happy Thanksgiving my boy!

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by JabbaNoBargain

That says something about the athletic department at Iowa. They like stability as long as there is a double-digit win season every five years or so. Unfortunately, this was the stance Rob Mullens was willing to take when he offered the Oregon job to Josh Wilcox. Fortunately, Wilcox turned it down and Rob went with his second choice, Dan Lanning.

Well, there’s something to be said about consistency at the very least. That being said, Iowa St. seems pretty intent on denying him the record today.

I guess the question is what do you expect from yourself and is that enough? Iowa fans are loyal to the program, they pack that stadium every year. Occasionally they'll rise up and beat Michigan, Ohio State, or Penn State. They consider Wisconsin and Minnesota to be their biggest rivals. They have a P4 in State little brother that suctions off some the support they get in a low population State.

I have been told that a great way to measure yourself is by the quality of who you think of as your contemporaries. Iowa and Nebraska are forced into an end of season rivalry that the B1G has tried to push upon both fanbases, neither really but into it. But it's getting more heated, and Iowa has kind of dominated the last ten years. Bo Pelini even famously got fired for saying something like Nebraska would never judge itself off the result of the Iowa game. More or less saying Nebraska celebrates wins over Michigan or Ohio State.

My point is Nebraska fans have continuously said Oklahoma is their true rival. Iowa fans claim Wisconsin and Minnesota. To me that kind of says where each program sees itself. Oklahoma is/was a playoff or bust program. Minnesota and Wisconsin are happy to compete for conference titles, they celebrate conference title relevancy. Iowa fans think Kirk Ferentz is a Hall of Fame despite the fact he has never won a solo conference title and has one NY6 bowl win in 26 years.

Would anybody here consider Dan Lanning a Hall of Famer with that resume? Who do you view as the programs you want to be considered a rival to? I know you guys don't like Washington and USC. But in your new conference who is that third team? In the SEC we have a list of 3. For Florida it's Georgia, Tennessee and LSU. In the 90's Tennessee was number one, but that order can fluctuate.

I guess this goes pretty deep into the "holding a small grudge" category; but, haven't been a huge Kirk Ferentz fan since 2004.

Bellotti and staff went all out recruiting that year. For the time, Oregon really pulled out all the stops, pursuing top recruits all over the country, big "recruiting weekends" (I think this was the year Oregon using the private jet for recruits became a thing).

Oregon went on to finish #12 in the country largely behind the De La Salle group, a huge success at the time; but, it was in on a number of top kids that would have really caused a stir if Oregon landed them (I am remembering names like Marshawn Lynch, Phillip Mbakogu, Chilo Rachael).

Well, Oregon had gone all the way to Iowa and gotten interest from consensus five star LB Kyle "Bonecrusher" Williams and another highly rated recruit (I am thinking DL Ryan Bain). Prior to LOI day, Oregon was producing a bit of a buzz in the college football world, being in on so many top kids. A journalist even contacted Ferentz and he went on record in an interview saying something pretty close to (this is a paraphrase): "I don't know what they are doing, coming all the way out here talking to "our" kids, wish we had that kind of money to burn". Now this was before either kid had committed. "Our kids" just meant kids from the state of Iowa. Like it was crazy for any program outside of the "blue bloods" to even dream of recruiting nationally.

Now, given what happened with "Bonecrusher" (to this day listed as Iowa's highest all time rated recruit), a series of violent assaults in 2006 that landed him 37 years in prison, maybe it's time to forgive Kirk? To Kirk, it appears Oregon "thinking big" in recruiting was apparently almost absurd. That decision seems to have worked out ok for Oregon.

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Bellotti also took issue with Ferentz saying that by securing Williams, "he saved him," implying that Oregon and Bellotti were bad?

28 minutes ago, GatOrlando said:

Would anybody here consider Dan Lanning a Hall of Famer with that resume? Who do you view as the programs you want to be considered a rival to? I know you guys don't like Washington and USC. But in your new conference who is that third team?

I consider Mike Belotti a Hall of Fame coach even though he only won two Pac 12 championships (one outright) and a Fiesta Bowl. However, he was only here for 13 years and only had one losing season. Ohio State would be the third conference rival because they’ve beaten us so many times and their fans have a superiority complex.

We have a Rose Bowl history with Wisconsin. I personally consider the Badgers a rival because they think they have better college football, beer and cheese. Everybody knows that Oregon is the leader in all three categories.

Iowa State denied Ferentz outright!

5 minutes ago, DrJacksPlaidPants said:

I consider Mike Belotti a Hall of Fame coach even though he only won two Pac 12 championships (one outright) and a Fiesta Bowl. However, he was only here for 13 years and only had one losing season. Ohio State would be the third conference rival because they’ve beaten us so many times and their fans have a superiority complex.

We have a Rose Bowl history with Wisconsin. I personally consider the Badgers a rival because they think they have better college football, beer and cheese. Everybody knows that Oregon is the leader in all three categories.

Belotti kind of took Oregon from the quirky program with the bright unis to a program that could threaten programs like Michigan or USC. My first memory of Oregon was Akili Smith showing out in that bowl game in El Paso. After that I remember the Joey Harrington Heisman run and ad in Times Square. You guys got robbed in that 2001-02 season. You should've been playing Miami, you only lost one very close game and you destroyed Colorado in your bowl.

7 minutes ago, kirklandduck said:

Iowa State denied Ferentz outright!

Imagine if Iowa ever found an offense.

A week away vs UMass. Another close Cy-Hawk game today. Iowa State wins at home for the first time since 2011 on a 54-yard FG from a kicker who made a 63-yarder last week.

Big win for the B12 against a B1G team.