What are your standards? Ferentz has failed to reach nine wins 15 times, and hit 9 wins or more on nine occasions at Iowa. So would you say he has only been a decent or better coach for less than half his time at Iowa?
Ranking against peers means little. All higher education is in decline.
Based on things said by my father-in-law, a Hawkeye booster of over 50 years, yes. Hawkeye boosters have been looking for ways to get rid of Ferentz for the last ten years. Also, they are happier than pigs in mud about the collapse of our wrestling program.
Yes except Minnesotans are very cheap, frugal and miserly. The school tuition for the U has gotten outrageously expense for current students and alumni. That and the U nor the Alumni association are very good at networking with professional associations, assisting students during enrollment with community and business connections, keeping Alumni engaged or selling why their support matters. I'm gonna be honest, a lot of schools do a much better job of reasoning and keeping Alumni engaged as donors. The University and Athletic department are not very good at selling reasons why you should donate, beyond give me money, or forced donations tied to tickets. Not a very well thought out tiered system, not a lot of well timed engagement.
This is true ... but it immediately begs the question: what, then, is reasonable to expect?
I think that it’s fair to expect 6+ every year and be extremely disappointed with 5 or less
This seems reasonable.
If you are following gophers to be a perennial contender I don’t believe it can happen.
Believe it or not, Clemson.
Get the fuc* outta here.
Clemson won a national title in the 80s
If you go back a few years, there are several threads dedicated to how unimpressive a 9-4 season was.F off calling 9-4 "decent"!
What program have you been following for the past few decades?! Most fans would have blown a bum for a 9-4 record any year between 1986 and 2019. Now that we went 11-2 people are calling one of our better records in 40 years "decent"?!? Hilarious.
One good season isn’t a turn around. Let’s see how they do the next few. I agree Bert has had a great year but 1. The year isn’t over and 2 small sample size me boy. Playing well but beat Michigan or Ohio state and then we can talk.
Absolutely. I’m not sure what some of the rubes on this board expect. I realize there have been some bad losses but for teams like Minnesota that happens. Shit it happens to top 25 teams every frikin week.
Guy who coached when the free transfer waiver didn’t exist had less transfers than someone coaching when free transfers do exist, brilliant. I don’t get why the people critical of Fleck not winning enough also like to heap praise on Kill. Don’t they realize that Fleck is winning more than Kill did?
In Bert's year zero, he beat Neb, PSU, MN and NW...lost to PU 13-9, lost to MD 20-17, to RU 20-14....was within a TD of Iowa at Kinnick with 5 minutes left...
Last year of brewster was 3-9. Year 6 of kill/claeys and co was 9-4. increased the wins every year except 1. Had 2 winning big 10 seasons
Sadly, at both schools, there are generations who have little to no patience for Decent to Great seasons to happen. I stand right in that sweet spot thanks to the Brain Wizards who dragged Golden Gopher football into the toilet, literally and figuratively, during my school career.
Yep I understand that. They haven’t beaten a ranked team that I know of. They also lost to Indiana who sucks balls. Like I said good year but let’s see it plays out. If you want to crown them then crown there ass. (Denny). I don’t think Illinois is going to be a big ten power.
Needing to beat OSU or Michigan before you're ready to talk is missing a lot of good and interesting football.
What I of course meant is that’s the top of the mountain right now in the big ten. But you already know that.
