OT: Iowa suspends Robinson for bowl game. Hampton transfers. 10AM press conf w Ferentz & Iowa AD tomorrow
And the slow exodus starts. Looking more and more like Iowa is on it's way to becoming a doormat in our division for a couple years now. Saw the below post, but this is a recent and substantive development.
LINK:
http://www.examiner.com/iowa-hawkeyes-in-des-moines/iowa-football-hampt…
December 13th, 2010 at 7:49 PM ^
so with the decline of iowa on the horizon our division's easily winnable games become:
northwestern, minnesota, iowa, sparty (somewhat)
... nebraska's gonna be tough for the next few years specially with martinez at the helm.
December 13th, 2010 at 7:52 PM ^
Every year people on this site think Sparty is an easily winnable game; in this decade, the game has usually be close and the Spartans have beaten us three years in a row. Now they are 11-1 and bring back most of their skill players next year. Why again are they an easy win?
December 13th, 2010 at 8:00 PM ^
I wouldn't count Northwestern as easily winnable either. They're completely unpredictable but usually play us close and they should have Persa returning for a game in Evanston.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:49 PM ^
nw brings back a lot of starters and we play them on the road, and we haven't fared too well on the road under coach rod
December 13th, 2010 at 9:56 PM ^
I agree they're tough. But Persa tore his achilles. That's something from which a lot of guys never fully recover. Tough, but true.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:00 PM ^
I think a lot of people think of them as '09 Iowa and will return to Earth next season but they could also think that because they are "little brother".
December 13th, 2010 at 8:07 PM ^
they do return a decent amount of O, but also lose a lot of their playmakers on D
December 13th, 2010 at 8:48 PM ^
I don't know if Sparty will be easily winnable but I think that Sparty had like 17 to 19 seniors playing on that 11-1 team and that is hard to just reload.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:39 PM ^
I think Sparty could be Iowa 2010. They've never been in this position so it could only take one loss for them to self-destruct
December 14th, 2010 at 1:14 AM ^
December 13th, 2010 at 7:51 PM ^
I feel like Angry-Iowa-RB-hating-God and Angry-Michigan-DB-Hating-God are having the prank war to end all prank wars. At this point, I don't know how the latter could possibly respond... Right?
December 13th, 2010 at 7:56 PM ^
Oh goodness, really? The last thing we need is for somebody to challenge him. Please sacrifice twelve televisions and a toaster in his honor.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:54 PM ^
I already started with my toaster when I saw that comment... please help do your part mgocitizens!!!
December 14th, 2010 at 12:19 AM ^
This made me laugh out loud.
December 13th, 2010 at 7:51 PM ^
Yikes. Got to wonder how is this team going to recover from the loss of Stanzi, Clayborn, Johnson-Koulianos, etc., but this isn't Ferentz's first rodeo.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:53 PM ^
This isn't Ferentz's first rodeo, and he's a solid coach, but he has some dogged years at Iowa in there, including 2-6 in the Big Ten in 2006 and a 6-6 2007 w/no bowl game. They will likely recover, but there's no guarantee it happens overnight.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:21 PM ^
Iowa's football program...........
December 13th, 2010 at 7:53 PM ^
I don't think we can assume the program's going to suffer so badly as to become irrelevant for a few of years. We'll have to see to the extent that the violations exist. It could end up being a few players and that's it.
December 13th, 2010 at 7:58 PM ^
December 13th, 2010 at 7:58 PM ^
Right, at this point Adam Robinson has the ability to be reinstated in January, and the bleeding appears to have stopped.
December 13th, 2010 at 7:54 PM ^
I hear the unmistakable sound of shit hitting the fan.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:05 PM ^
December 13th, 2010 at 10:24 PM ^
He's been on the hot seat before when his kids hit the police blotter. They've seen this story before. If he was smart, he'd take an NFL head coaching gig while his rep is still high. NFL coaches are as responsible for keeping their men out of trouble.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:13 PM ^
And Vegas has taken the Insight off the board.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:27 PM ^
Iowa is now a drug school and half the team was caught for cocaine? Expect a TON of decommits now. Who would want to send their child to Iowa to play football after this comes out?
December 13th, 2010 at 8:55 PM ^
The rumor at work today was that Iowa was considering pulling out of the Insight Bowl due to the number of expected suspensions. It will be an interesting press conference tomorrow.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:28 PM ^
RE: Iowa Players Kicked Off Team
Can anyone get me their contact info? Thanks
--Mark Dantonio
December 13th, 2010 at 9:00 PM ^
Dantonio and Mark Hollis were already hired as outside consultants in this matter...
December 13th, 2010 at 9:00 PM ^
Dantonio and Mark Hollis were already hired as outside consultants in this matter...
December 14th, 2010 at 8:45 AM ^
that while Iowa is doing a nice job, it is cheapened by the fact that Michigan State did it four years ago and were really pioneers in recruiting thugs. Hollis would also like to point out that Iowa is really showing how new they are to this game as Ferentz wasn't able to get his players back into a green uniform after shedding an orange one. Saint Dantonio scoffs at your lack of foresight and the nerve you showed in not having your inmates, er, guys practicing already, sirs.
December 13th, 2010 at 8:31 PM ^
asking what our chances are with Jordan Walsh and Ray Hamilton?
December 13th, 2010 at 8:34 PM ^
You beat me to it. When I saw this post I immediately said "Jordan Walsh and Ray Hamilton."
<br>Both would be Enormous commits for us. I think we need to reach out to them.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:25 PM ^
Who's your freaking coach going to be? We can't fully apply the Snake Oil until Jan. 2 hopefully.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:01 PM ^
Back to the subject, how long before Ferentz starts taking some heat for the actions of his players? Somehow, the "good-guy" image has clung to this guy, but this isn't the first (but likely the most severe) instance of player misconduct under his watch.
If this happened under Rich Rod....
December 14th, 2010 at 8:24 AM ^
This was the first thing that came to mind for me as well. Seriously, the more we see other coaches get a pass on this type of stuff the more obvious it is that Rich Rod has been coaching under the crosshairs from day 1.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:07 PM ^
The irony in all of this......the only RB left at Iowa is named COKER.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:25 PM ^
I'm withholding judgment until the facts are all out. Ferentz has an established record of running a clean program, and I've yet to see that he had any knowledge of rampant drug abuse until this stuff came out, so as far as he's concerned I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. It's not like this is MSU, where the head coach has an extended record over several schools of turning a blind eye to disciplinary measures and many players arrived with shady pasts.
The extent of the suspensions could very well be because rather than treating one realization as an isolated incident, he and his staff took comprehensive and immediate action (i.e. made the entire team get drug tested).
I don't know how far it goes, but it would be sad to see the program essentially dismantled if most of what was going on was basically college kids smoking pot.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:32 PM ^
It's not like this is MSU, where the head coach has an extended record over several schools of turning a blind eye to disciplinary measures and many players arrived with shady pasts.
You might want to double-check the facts on this one. Ferentz's record with regard to off-field stuff has always been very, very sketchy. His team had a horrific arrest record in 2007, and this was cited as a red flag during the coaching search.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:44 PM ^
According to this link, from April 2007 to October 2008, 20 Hawkeyes were arrested. That's quite an impressive amount.
http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/10/18/kirk-ferentz-suspends-son-f…
December 13th, 2010 at 9:49 PM ^
Hell, a rape went unpunished in 2008 under his watch. Dude has a terrible track record, just nobody cares because he's quiet and looks like Richard Gere.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:05 PM ^
I was at the Iowa-UM game the last two yrs with an Iowa fan. It was well known that the ONLY way Kirk was going to leave (i.e., be forced out to the NFL) was if the disciplinary issues didn't get resolved. Watch their games and they don't play cocky or dirty very much.
Until the DJK thing happened, the program had two quiet years. The Robinson thing may have been as simple as the Hagerup thing, only this time it happened before the bowl game and not before the OSU game.
Missouri was going to be a brutal match-up for them anyway. This just made it a lot worse.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:10 PM ^
I agree with you...withholding judgment.
Unless you live on Iowa campus, no one really knows if the DJK situation was any different than the Feagin deal. Just because one guy deals drugs doesn't mean that half the team are his junkies and pimps.
This is clearly bad for Iowa in a few ways (lose a key player, at a bad time, in a bad situation).
But, hey, it's not like 15 guys leaving the Team Banquet, going to a party afterwards and beating up a bunch of engineers minding their own business. That is much worse!
December 14th, 2010 at 8:26 AM ^
not according to the freep. To them it's just boys being boys and thank goodness they have such a "stand-up" coach who will give them a second chance...over and over and over again.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:29 PM ^
However your fifth year senior star receiver has been living with a drug dealer for the last 8 months who then brought the heat in the form of a raid and said receiver had pot and cocaine in his system when tested. They had pot, coke and pills at the residence. I am not sure what that says for the team. We can wait, but Ferentz has a number of alcohol and other messes he has been clearing up lately including the big rape investigation. Hardly squeaky clean.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:01 PM ^
I was a freshman at UM in '81, when we had a boatload of guys returning and coming off a great season. Expectations were high, plus we had ND, Iowa, OSU at home and no real scary road games (or so we thought).
We tumbled from 10-2 and a Rose Bowl win in 1980, all the way to 8-3 (road loss at Wisky, home losses to Iowa and OSU) and ended up in the "famed" Bluebonnet Bowl on NY Eve. We ended 9-3 with a bowl win, but a very un-satisfying season.
Ferentz is a good coach. He's beaten Michigan 4 times. Absolutely OWNS PSU. Even with a bowl loss and 7-6 record, Iowa does seem to come back without the PSU and UM kind of talent.
December 14th, 2010 at 9:51 AM ^
We tumbled from 10-2 and a Rose Bowl win in 1980, all the way to 8-3
I wish we could still complain about falling from a 2 loss season to a 3 loss season.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:13 PM ^
The 10am press conference is intriguing, especially given the hand full of previous problems Ferentz has had.
Might we see 3 (or 4 depending on Brandon's decision) new coaches in the Big Ten (12) next year? When's the last time that happened?
December 13th, 2010 at 11:00 PM ^
Am I the only one who is just amazed it is possible to score blow in Iowa City?
Oh, the modern age we live in.
December 14th, 2010 at 8:54 AM ^
It wont be as easy now as it was before all the football playing drug dealers got caught.
December 14th, 2010 at 9:18 AM ^
I had Iowa City pegged as more of a meth town.