Iowa football: Kirk Ferentz doesn’t seem happy with Brian’s performance
By Andrew Wade
Brian Ferentz is in his third year as offensive coordinator of the Iowa football program, but after nine games, his father Kirk doesn’t seem too happy.
The Iowa football program isn’t built to have a high-flying offensive attack. It has rarely been that way since Kirk Ferentz took over the program in the late 90s. Instead, the Hawks rely on a ball-control style offense that wears down defenses with a punishing run game.
However, the offense shouldn’t be this bad especially given the amount of talent the Hawkeyes have on offense. Unfortunately, this offensive attack is being hamstrung by a terrible interior offensive line and a lack of pass-catching targets at tight end.
Still, though, this Iowa offense is bad even with those issues. We’ve talked about ways to fix it too, but yet the issues still remain.
As of now, the #20 ranked Iowa Hawkeyes are averaging 24.1 points per game, which is 97th in the nation out of 130 teams. Only four times in the Kirk Ferentz era has an Iowa football team’s offense been ranked worse than that, and two of those were the first two seasons with Kirk at the helm. The other two were the 6-6 2007 season and the 4-8 2012 season, most often considered two of the worst seasons in the Kirk era since he built the program back up.
Moreover, that rushing attack that we discussed earlier as a key component of the offense is one of the worst in the nation. The Hawks are averaging 3.9 yards per carry (granted sacks are included in this), which is 87th in the nation, and their total yards per game of 381.8 ranks 77th.
These are bad statistics, even for Iowa.
This leaves Kirk with an interesting decision with his son currently serving as the offensive coordinator.
And if we’re reading between the lines (which we are), he’s not too happy right now with his offenses’ performance. Here is what he had to say during his Tuesday press conference when asked about evaluating the offense.
"I’ll leave all the grading and evaluations until postseason. That’s kind of my mode of operation. We didn’t score enough to win the other day. We didn’t stop them enough to win. That’s kind of the long and short of it. They got more points than us."
That’s not exactly a lot of confidence emitting from Kirk’s mouth about the offense or his son.
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This could also mean there is a lot riding on the final three games of the Iowa football team’s season.