Legendary Iowa Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz addresses huge difference between NFL, CFB originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The Iowa Hawkeyes have been one of the rare teams to have maintained stability in college football.
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That’s at least when it comes to their coach, Kirk Ferentz. Ferentz, who has held the position since 1999 and has won 213 games overall throughout his entire head-coaching career dating to 1990, has seen the entire landscape of college football change in various capacities.
One aspect, however, puzzles Ferentz the most.
“Six years of experience in the NFL, and a lot of things I don’t miss about the NFL, but one of the things I miss is the clarity in terms of expectations and what the rules are,” Ferentz told On3. “Basically, all 32 teams operate by the same set of rules. As we’ve evolved into revenue sharing, which I thought was a worthy and needed step, we’re sitting in a quagmire. Just garbage.”
Ferentz said he is frustrated when he sees transfer portal moves for millions of dollars and has come to question whether or not the legitimacy is apparent.
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“I don’t know what’s real,” Ferentz said. “Quite frankly, I hear about what people’s payrolls are, but nobody can document that or prove it. It’s pretty evident that certain programs are bigger than others, and that’s frustrating to me.”
Following Ferentz’s opinions, he feels similarly that the transfer portal sometimes isn’t the endgame when finding the right quarterback. It’s a position Iowa is still figuring out for the upcoming season, as it has a chance to play one of two quarterbacks as the primary starter: Hank Brown or Jeremy Hecklinski.
“We chose not to get active in the portal at that position [QB] intentionally,” Ferentz said. “We made the assessment that what we have in our building right now and what we’ve recruited, we feel pretty good about. It’s really going to get down to what happens between now and September and potentially, even into the season.”
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Ferentz may be old-school, but at least he’s honest. Ferentz does not intend to retire just yet, either, as this fall will be his 28th season in Iowa City.
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