Ferentz to PSU?

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Originally Posted by LonoClone

No anger. Just laughter.

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It's a common form of jealousy.

Probably won't be Ferentz but I'm sure Penn State knows they will have to pay their next coach way more than JoPa.

Done deal, money in the bank, as good as gone, the guy practically lives in PA right now, he says he is on a recruiting trip but we all know better, he turned down the Houston Texans five years ago just for this, history of head coaching changes, loves the smell of State College in the morning, can't wait to escape his current situation, fans don't want him here anyway, they will do better without him.....

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye11en1

When was he EVER #1 on the list for the Michigan at any point? Please link me to that article.

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Deace mentioned it on his show last week with Miller.

This isn't a big secret or anything.

Here it is from ESPN back in '07:

I've sat on this a couple days waiting for some third-party corroboration and now I have it: Kirk Ferentz has been offered the Michigan job. The general feeling is he will turn it down out of fidelity to Iowa, in case you were thinking of making a late-night run to Ann Arbor (or Iowa City) Torch & Pitchfork. I do realize that this -- unlike the Lloyd thing -- is unlikely to ever be publicly acknowledged if Ferentz turns it down, but this comes from someone in a position to know, and how. The third-party corroboration comes from a couple Iowa insiders reporting things afoot that, unfortunately, I am not at liberty to disclose.

Suffice it to say that Wednesday's post on Ferentz not making sense and this being a weird rumor is withdrawn: there's a real chance he's the next coach.

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Originally Posted by twojman

Deace mentioned it on his show last week with Miller.

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You remember which day?

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Originally Posted by GoCubsGo

I'm guessing it's only a matter of time until these rumors start...will be fun to watch Iowa fans squirm.

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Hell, yes.:realmad: He says he runs a clean shop. :wideeyed:No pedos in IC. :spinny:Then we can book Pelini to move to IC with Barney.:eek: Perhaps Dan McC might get a shot also at IC.:shocked:

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye11en1

Yeah, they went to trial and I'm pretty sure he was put in jail. In fact, he has actually done a decent job coaching from his prison cell.

Oh wait, since Iowa runs the state they paid off the cops (who were Iowa fans, so it didn't matter) and everyone ran scott free through the meadows skipping and humming their way down the yellow brick road.

You amaze me.

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Your ignorance of what goes on, and how things get done in Iowa in regards to Iowa Athletics amazes me. Oh well.

Here, let me amaze you some more:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-DuonV3DWE&feature=related]ISU vs Iowa 2011 Winning Play - YouTube[/ame]

Didn't Iowa have a mess related to the handling of an alleged rape that resulted in a couple of administrative people getting fired?

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Originally Posted by joefrog

Your ignorance of what goes on, and how things get done in Iowa in regards to Iowa Athletics amazes me. Oh well.

Here, let me amaze you some more:

ISU vs Iowa 2011 Winning Play - YouTube

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That was amazing. Great play. Actually something related to football, albeit having nothing to do with this thread.

You take a Ferentz to PSU question and turn it into "well, if KF were there he would shove it under the rug as well because he is a scum bag." That is what amazes me.

Sounds like you have some solid intel into the Iowa Athletic Program. One of the worst in the country, it sounds like. You must have sources deep inside the program. Heck, if you know all of these bad things going on you better go to the authorities...you wouldn't want to get into trouble for not!

I know A LOT of hawk fans that would be thrilled to see him leave. I hate the hawks and even I get frustrated watching such a boring, conservative, and terribly time-managed gameplan.

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Originally Posted by LonoClone

Come on now. Pretend, Kirk was at Penn State for the current incident. He would have done the right thing.

It's not like he would have ordered the shower to be cleaned and all DNA evidence thrown away, immediately after finding out about it. (oops)

Let's try that again. It's not like he would have turned around and given Sandusky the Assistant of the Year award, knowing the trouble he'd caused. (oops, again)

Man, this is hard.

Suffice to say, I am confident that had Kirk been the one in charge at Penn State, while the whole Sandusky thing went down, he would have done the right thing...

...provided Sandusky did not live in low income, subsidized housing.

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My guess is that Penn St will have a hard time finding somebody who wants to step into that position. And they'll have a harder time getting recruits for awhile, which will make success for a new coach even harder. No athlete will want to be associated with Pedo State, Baby-raper U, ***-cracker U, the New Happy Valley, monikers. This isn't leaving the news for a long time, and I'm guessing its a decade-long rebuilding project, at best.

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye11en1

That was amazing. Great play. Actually something related to football, albeit having nothing to do with this thread.

You take a Ferentz to PSU question and turn it into "well, if KF were there he would shove it under the rug as well because he is a scum bag." That is what amazes me.

Sounds like you have some solid intel into the Iowa Athletic Program. One of the worst in the country, it sounds like. You must have sources deep inside the program. Heck, if you know all of these bad things going on you better go to the authorities...you wouldn't want to get into trouble for not!

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This isn't fair. I don't want Ferentz to go to PSU, and I don't think he's dirty. Jo Pa committed no crime and did not participate in the illegal cover-up (i.e. he didn't commit perjury) but he did handle the scandal with silence - in this case it is enough to damn him. To think that Ferentz would have handled it much differently, based on his management of every scandal the Hawks have been through on his tenure, is possible. Perhaps the horrific nature of the report would have inspired Ferentz to do more, whereas Jo Pa just passed the info along.

But those who doubt that he would have done anything different have a point, and a history to support it, as well.

I don't, for the record, think he's a scumbag. But I also can completely imagine him whipping out the "process, bureaucracy" card as an excuse for committing sins of omission.

This isn't unfair. What's unfair is anyone who would equate Sandusky's crimes + JoPa's cowardice + the cover-up with anything that the hawks have gone through.

But I don't think the crimes are being compared. Just the institutional approaches to scandal. You may be reading too much into the critique. Or I'm not reading enough into it.

PSU will not have one problem finding a great coach. Getting rid of JoPa will do wonders for their football program. PSU, scandal or not, is one of the top jobs in the country and the Big 10 is a winnable league. They'll have great coaches lining up to interview.