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Iowa is quickly becoming one of the most unlikable teams in college football
One way or the other, issues simply appear to maintain getting worse and worse for the Iowa Hawkeyes in 2022.
Iowa (3-4, 1-3 Huge Ten) has insisted week after week on turning into essentially the most unlikable staff within the nation, and it’s plain apparent to anybody maintaining with the staff this 12 months.
It isn’t simply that this staff is an assault on the eyes and minds of all spectators with the worst offense in school soccer. The staff being dangerous this 12 months is just one a part of the equation. There are dangerous groups in school soccer, in Energy 5 conferences like Iowa, too, who aren’t almost as disagreeable as this Iowa staff.
Nothing summarizes all of it higher than head coach Kirk Ferentz’s feedback from this previous week.
As soon as once more, after the Ohio State recreation, Ferentz demonstrated a sample within the Iowa soccer program of caring extra about previous success than the dumpster hearth that’s at the moment in entrance of us all.
“Okay, the fellows on our workers are guys I believe which have demonstrated success. They’re good individuals and we’re going to maintain pushing ahead. I don’t really feel like we’re doing something incorrect,” Ferentz mentioned.
“I don’t really feel like we’re doing something incorrect,” says the coach of a 3-4 staff that has the 128th highest scoring offense within the nation. Thoughts you, that’s out of 131 groups. Solely Colorado, Colorado State, and UMass common much less factors per recreation. Certain, looks as if nothing’s incorrect!
Ferentz then obtained very snippy with a Cleveland.com reporter’s questions in regards to the offense and his offensive coordinator (and son) Brian Ferentz. He interrupted reporter Doug Lesmerises throughout his questioning.
That wasn’t all for Ferentz this week, not by a protracted shot. His actual lowlight got here in his most up-to-date press convention, offered by Hawkeye Insider David Eickholt. You possibly can watch the total video down beneath.
He referred to the questions by Lesmerises as an “interrogation,” then proceeded to demean his job, and coincidentally the roles of everybody within the room.
“It dawned on me coming dwelling, you already know. I mentioned man, as dangerous as at present was it may have been worse, as a result of I may have been that man. I may have been that man… had his job and needed to act like he did. It may very well be a hell of so much worse,” Ferentz mentioned.
Certain Kirk, strategy to make your self really feel higher after getting embarrassed 54-10 on nationwide tv. At the least you aren’t that reporter! Certain, appears tasteful to mock a reporter’s occupation in entrance of a gaggle of reporters!
Is there a staff that exudes the stench of unearned vanity greater than this present Hawkeyes staff? They always discuss previous success as in the event that they’ve been nationwide title contenders, when in actuality they haven’t gained the Huge Ten since 2004.
Certain, they’ve been a great staff, however we noticed simply final 12 months the large hole between them and a real contender like Michigan. We’ve seen a horrid offense over the previous few years beneath Brian Ferentz, and it’s all supposed to only be okay since they’ve been in a few Outback bowls.
Regardless of being a a blue collar staff for a blue collar state, there’s virtually an air of elitism across the Hawkeyes. They’re so satisfied that their means is greatest, and that they’re doing the best possible they’ll for a faculty like Iowa and that anybody who dares query is within the incorrect.
Simply being a nasty staff doesn’t instantly make you unlikable. Most groups are certain to have at the least one down season. Nevertheless, these packages don’t act snarky to the media who rightfully ask legitimate questions on a staff that’s struggling, and an offense that has been struggling mightily for years now.
As a substitute of 2022 feeling like only a down 12 months that can be only a bump within the highway for a profitable program, feedback like those from these previous two press conferences simply provide the feeling that it’s extra of an inevitable crash for the Ferentz period.
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