Iowa's Kirk Ferentz says things could be worse -- he could be a sports writer

[MeanGreenATO]

Kirk Ferentz, who is earning $5 million and change to coach an Iowa team that is unbearable to watch, was driving home and realized things could be worse.

He called a line of questioning an "interrogation," which even if it was the case, comes with the territory of being a P5 head coach. Well, Ferentz is thanking his lucky stars he's a coach and not a sports writer. Ferentz: "I could have been that guy. Like, had his job and had to act like he did. Could be a hell of a lot worse, right?"

 

[rtse11]

Being a sportswriter still beats being a Black player on his team

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Being a sportswriter still beats being a Black player on his team

Or being a producer of Brown urine.

 

[Songbird]

Would've been so much better if if he completed the thought.

"I could've been that guy ... had his job ... smegma of society ... "

Oh for the days of Tavian Banks.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Or a coed around his football team.

 

[DanOregon]

I'd argue the fans have the worst of it. They don't even let the kids with cancer watch the games anymore because they're suffering enough.

 

[Typist Clerk]

Maybe Kirk wants to go back to 1999, his first season, a winless campaign in the league (and a single nonconference win), when Iowa still (and may yet) have a teleconference for writers covering the opposing team. I was on one of those once. And the only one on it.

 

[rtse11]

Between this guy and McCaffrey Iowa may be get that top 5 ranking, in head coach asshattery

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Either way, he’s wasting kids’ scholarships.

 

[I Should Coco]

If Kirk thinks he's getting a rough ride from the media, or Iowa athletic department, he needs to take a look around his own division.

Two teams that will probably beat the Hawkeyes this year -- Wisconsin and Nebraska -- already fired their coaches.

It's also a fact that after the offense's horrid performance in the second half of last season and the first half of this one, any other FBS school would have fired its offensive coordinator. Hmmm ... wonder why that's not happening in Iowa City?

The end of 2022 might be a good time to make a new start, in this Iowa graduate's humble opinion.

 

[Sports Barf]

 

[playthrough]

Ferentz became aware or someone became aware for him?

 

[MeanGreenATO]

I'm going to go out on a limb and said someone became aware on Kirk's behalf.

 

[rtse11]

He's still in denial about the **** his strength coach was doing and what his players were doing to coeds.
He said nothing wrong, in his mind.
A true apology would be to stand up in front of the same media gathering he did on Monday, with Doug in attendance, and apologize man to man. Apologies on paper might as well be written on toilet paper. Their end result is the same.
But, let's all wave to the sick kids.

 

[Sports Barf]

Leave the sick kids outta this cmon

 

[maumann]

I can honestly say there have been multiple occasions when I've walked away from a media scrum and thought to myself, "God, thank you for not letting me become a (person whom I just interviewed)."

I don't believe I ever lost sleep over the opinion of anyone who wasn't actually directly involved in my paycheck. And sometimes not even then.

 

[Brian J Walter]

"A helluva lot worse"? Does Ferentz not know Lesmerises works for the Plain Dealer?

As if Ferentz would ever be good enough. It's like the Notre Dame of sportwriting jobs.

 

[exmediahack]

He's been trying to hang on long enough to see his son get installed as head coach, as Bill Snyder and Frank Beamer tried to do.

At least the debacles of the last three years in Iowa City are keeping Brian Ferentz out of consideration for the HC role.

Iowa media is pretty soft, as is the rest of the Big Ten West media, outside of Nebraska. Different game in the Big Ten East.

 

[cjericho]

"A helluva lot worse"? Does Ferentz not know Lesmerises works for the Plain Dealer?

As if Ferentz would ever be good enough. It's like the Notre Dame of sportwriting jobs.

Who is the ND of newspapers?

 

[DanOregon]

Christian Science Monitor? Respected, though not widely viewed as a major player anymore.