Coach Hayden Fry Passes Away at age 90
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Just saying Duncan was the catalyst for ISU's demise on the field....Bruce left the guy a talented team and by the time Duncan left didn't maintain.
Majors' career W/L at ISU: 9-25
Bruce's career W/L at ISU: 18-24
If you call that rolling, well.........I don't know what to tell you.
Bruces last 3 years at ISU
8-3
8-4
8-4
Overall record 36-32 the 18-24 was conf record
Johnny Majors
24-30-1.....led ISU to it's first 2 bowls in his last couple seasons
I will say that I always admired Fry. He hired coaches who went on to have success leading their own programs, which explains a great deal of the success Fry had. He was passionate, entertaining, a real winner.
My only criticism of him would be his tendency to pile it on when he played Iowa State. But there's the old expression: If you don't like it, do something about it. ISU simply couldn't do anything about it in those days.
My only criticism of him would be his tendency to pile it on when he played Iowa State. But there's the old expression: If you don't like it, do something about it. ISU simply couldn't do anything about it in those days.
Duncan left to become AD at Oklahoma, he kept the talent level Bruce had, he just wasn't a good coach.
I was quoting conference records, should have clarified that. My bad. Overall he was 36-32.
Guessing Hawkeye fans expect him to be walking around campus in three days...
Agreed and good points.
It's crazy to think besides maybe now, ISU's best football days were in the 70s and unfortunately there were little bowl games to go around. I would have done a lot of what Fry tried and did do to get a program back on it's feet.
An argument can be made that 8-3 Bruce team that didn't go to a bowl was his best. If they had won their last game against OsU they would have gone to the orange bowl. Pretty much a crime that team didn't get a bowl.
ANF is said to have been his idea. Was a ploy to ensure that farmers supported Iowa. Little did they know, it actually stood for America Needs Fry
Then throw on top of that Pomerantz doing everything he could to make ISU and UNI satellite campuses of Iowa. Shut down any competing degrees and base everything off Iowa’s coursework. Think about that, he wanted to level most of the STEM stuff at ISU in favor of Iowa’s.
Made sure tuition was the same at all three, but Iowa, still currently does, receive more funding per student than ISU or UNI and Iowa has the lowest percentage of instate students. Meaning we are subsidized out of state students at a higher rate than instate. Our tax dollars at work.
There were only a few bowls back then. With the plethora of bowls today, bids get handed out like participation ribbons.
The best thing you can do in any leadership position is to surround yourself with good employees and Fry obviously did that at Iowa. And it makes you better when you want them to leave because you know they can succeed and forge their own path, and he did that.
Hearing Snyder or Kirk talk about him you know he obviously valued and respected them as assistants and competitors.
There's been a lot of talk on here lately about Jamie and I actually think some of Hayden's personality went thru Barry and then onto Jamie. You've got to bark a little louder sometimes when you aren't the biggest dog.
Hearing Snyder or Kirk talk about him you know he obviously valued and respected them as assistants and competitors.
There's been a lot of talk on here lately about Jamie and I actually think some of Hayden's personality went thru Barry and then onto Jamie. You've got to bark a little louder sometimes when you aren't the biggest dog.
Must have been an amazing salesman. Always wondered how he convinced Andre Tippett to become a Hawkeye. Tippett was a highly rated prospect from New Jersey and Iowa was a dumpster fire.
Coach Mac got a certain stud defensive player to come to a dumpster fire. It happens.
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