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Originally Posted by MontyBurns

Kirk is in for a long summer no matter what:

He's been putting a mediocre (or worse) team on the field for 2 or 3 years now.

He has the embarrassment of 22 arrests in the last 14 months.

He has the embarrassment of fans leaving games early and/or booing their own team off their own field on senior day.

He has to try to recruit amid the negative publicity of leading the "Thug U" program plus coaching a losing team. He lost at least one big recruit who verbally committed to Iowa then changed his mind after making a visit during the WMU game weekend.

Iowa newspapers and radio and TV stations will have a field day ripping his program apart this summer as court appearances by James Cleveland, Arvell Nelson, Abe Satterfield, and Cedric Everson will get tons of press coverage in the otherwise slow Iowa summer sports season.

If he has another mediocre year with 5 or 6 wins or if he continues to have players arrested on a near-daily basis, well, this blog says it best:

"If Ferentz and Iowa do indeed go 6-6 and have a losing record in the Big Ten in 2008, the question will then turn to if Iowa can continue to pay a coach that is putting mediocrity onto the football field. Reading Ferentz's contract, it is not entirely clear to us what Ferentz's December 2008 buyout would be, but our best guess puts it around $4.55 million. Would Iowa pay a football coach $4.55 million to buyout a contact? We are doubtful that they would, but if Iowa does put up a 6-6 record in 2008, the Hawkeye fans are going to be demanding that someone answer for Iowa's recent football records, and the football coach would be the obvious person to go."

Kirk Ferentz

NO! We need this guy.