RUMOR - Ferentz Meets w/ Michigan In NYC

SuperCy · 12-05-2007, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by cycloneworld

I'd rather listen to Dan Patrick than Out of Bounds. I enjoy Dan's show although I really liked it more with Dibbs.

I think he's much better with a sidekick. Dibbs was good with him.

Jeremy · 12-05-2007, 11:01 AM

Were any of us on that list? With 20 names, they sure better hurry up with the interviews.

4VR4CY · 12-05-2007, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Nedrick

I heard on an ESPN update this morning that the Michigan AD has 20 candidates in mind.

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Were any of us on that list? With 20 names, they sure better hurry up with the interviews.

I am actually in the running to be the coach, I just forgot to mention it.

SuperCy · 12-05-2007, 11:05 AM

Maybe they've compiled a list and once they are done with it they'll give it to Iowa to choose their replacement.

Cydkar · 12-05-2007, 11:06 AM

The Dibbs days were very good.

Good point about Marty. But who doesn't like to hear about every sport in Boston and the Iowa energy every day? :)

Stormin · 12-05-2007, 11:09 AM

Ferentz is gone if offered. It only makes sense. There might be 20 names on the list, but how many are actually viable candidates. I think Miles is out. I think it is down to Brian Kelly and Kirk Ferentz. I think Ferentz has the better connections with Carr and Mary Sue Coleman.

Iowa will be scrambling. Stoops will not leave Oklahoma. This will really throw their recruiting in to a bigger funk than it is right now.

LindenCy · 12-05-2007, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by cycloneworld

I'd rather listen to Dan Patrick than Out of Bounds. I enjoy Dan's show although I really liked it more with Dibbs.

It was awesome with Dibbs and Salisbury. It kind of slid after that. He worked well with a counterpart. It was evident when he would do an hour with KO before DP left this year.

Wesley · 12-05-2007, 11:24 AM

Maybe they will offer Kirk $3.5M and then he will go back to Iowa and ask for the same. I feel a Houston Nutt working here or Scott Boras at work here.

KMAC_ATTACK · 12-05-2007, 11:24 AM

Check out these links on Ferentz.....

Can you say.....HE GONE!!!!! WATCH, might happen before end of today...it will happen fast for damage control of Miles debacle.....

Michigan Sports Center: Your Home for University of Michigan Athletics

mgoblog

Hey maybe Norm Parker will get the Iowa job........it might not be so bad that he leaves!!!!!

Clonehomer · 12-05-2007, 11:25 AM

If Ferentz would leave I've got to believe that Mike Stoops and Chuck Long would top their list of replacements. That will satisfy the fan base and those guys have some experience.

4VR4CY · 12-05-2007, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by KMAC_ATTACK

Check out these links on Ferentz.....

Can you say.....HE GONE!!!!! WATCH, might happen before end of today...it will happen fast for damage control of Miles debacle.....

Michigan Sports Center: Your Home for University of Michigan Athletics

mgoblog

Hey maybe Norm Parker will get the Iowa job........it might not be so bad that he leaves!!!!!

I can't open the mgoblog at work... blocked. can someone attach it or give me the highlights?

cybsball20 · 12-05-2007, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Clonehomer

If Ferentz would leave I've got to believe that Mike Stoops and Chuck Long would top their list of replacements. That will satisfy the fan base and those guys have some experience.

Experience at being horrible head coaches...

kingcy · 12-05-2007, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Clonehomer

If Ferentz would leave I've got to believe that Mike Stoops and Chuck Long would top their list of replacements. That will satisfy the fan base and those guys have some experience.

It would make me happy as an ISU fan if they made one of those hires.

SuperCy · 12-05-2007, 11:31 AM

I'd love to be able to beat Chuck Long for once.

KMAC_ATTACK · 12-05-2007, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by 4VR4CY

I can't open the mgoblog at work... blocked. can someone attach it or give me the highlights?

here you go its an excerpt...

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Don't Call It A Comeback
He's back:

Two sources . . .

Have now told me that Kirk Ferentz is at the top of Michigan's list of coaching candidates.
Members of Michigan's search committee leaked today that Ferentz has been made priority No. 1. Lloyd Carr, who's retiring after 13 seasons at Michigan, is pushing for Ferentz, a source said. He has a say in this. Mary Sue Coleman, UM's president and the UI president when Ferentz was hired at Iowa, has a say in this. That's according to logic, by the way.

For those concerned about bloggy stuff, Mark Morehouse is a sportswriter for an Iowa paper. For those concerned about the Ferentz's-agent angle, Morehouse makes it clear this is coming from Michigan's end. For those just plain concerned, well... yeah.

Stunning, probably wrong graph:
Ferentz makes $2.84 million at Iowa, and that's guaranteed through 2012 (that's $14.2 million over the next five years). Michigan knows it's going to take between $3.5 and $4 million to get in the ballpark, with a lot of coaches, not just Ferentz.
This does not jive with the "insulting" offer provided Miles unless this whole fiasco was downright deliberate.