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The 1983 Iowa football team had the following coaches
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besides Hayden Fry:
– Offensive coordinator Bill Snyder
– Linebackers coach Barry Alvarez
– Offensive line coach Kirk Ferentz
– Defensive line coach Dan McCarney
– Graduate assistant Bob Stoops
Have we ever had any all-star staffs like that?
– Offensive coordinator Bill Snyder
– Linebackers coach Barry Alvarez
– Offensive line coach Kirk Ferentz
– Defensive line coach Dan McCarney
– Graduate assistant Bob Stoops
Have we ever had any all-star staffs like that?
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Also, LOL Iowa for ending up with the worst of that group.
Hayden Fox > Hayden Fry
No wonder they think Ferentz is the shit. He got curb stomped by USC in the Orange Bowl
Whereas Ferentz took over for Iowa's Don James and has been largely mediocre for the last 15 years.
Ferentz is 143-97 at Iowa. He’s mediocre but he’s made a couple BCS Bowls And has 5 top 10 finishes. It seems to me Iowa has been the same type of program for awhile.
Similarly Ferentz, after a great run 2002-2004, has only three seasons in the lsst 13 eith more than 8 wins.
In an alternate universe Frye retires in the early 90s, Iowa hires Alvarez, and Iowa becomes a Big Ten power while Wisconsin remains a doormat forever.
Its like UW giving Owens 8-10 years more than they should have.
There is a small but vocal Hawkeye Halfbrain contingent that has been agitating to fire Ferentz for years.
But most Iowa fans are happy if:
-Beat Iowa St and Minnesota
-Play clean, well-fought ganes with no injuries against Wisconsin and Nebraska
-Not too many players doing crimes or drugs
-Make a bowl in a warm climate
-Get on ESPN for sappy crap like waving to the dying kids.
Fry turned his attention to changing a losing attitude and starting new traditions at Iowa. Hayden would not celebrate close losses or moral victories, once even threatening to "Punch any player in the mouth if he was smiling" following a 21-6 loss to highly ranked Oklahoma in his first season, a game which Iowa trailed only 7-6 well into the 4th quarter. He hired a marketing group to create the Tigerhawk, a logo to represent the University of Iowa's athletic programs. Since both shared the colors of black and gold, Fry gained permission from the Pittsburgh Steelers, the dominant NFL program of the time, to overhaul Iowa’s uniforms in the Steelers’ image. Fry had the team "swarm" onto the field together as they left the locker room, holding hands in a show of solidarity. And Fry had the visitors’ locker room painted pink. Fry, a psychology major at Baylor, knew that pink is occasionally used in jails and mental institutions to relax and pacify the residents, and Fry claimed that it might have the same effect on the visiting team. Principally, though, Fry hoped that the unusual color would distract and fluster the opposing players and coaches. Visiting head coaches, particularly Michigan head coach Bo Schembechler, would occasionally try to cover the pink walls with paper to shield their players from the color.[3]
On the field, Hayden assembled a terrific coaching staff, bringing his assistant coaches with him from North Texas, including Bill Brashier, his defensive coordinator and a childhood friend from Eastland, Texas, and Bill Snyder, his offensive coordinator. Fry retained some of the Iowa coaches from the previous staff, including Dan McCarney and Bernie Wyatt. Finally, Fry hired the head coach at Mason City High School, Barry Alvarez. Fry would later add Kirk Ferentz as his offensive line coach and hire his former players Bob Stoops, Mike Stoops, Chuck Long, and Bret Bielema as assistant coaches. Fry also gave former USF Head Coach Jim Leavitt one of his first breaks in college football, making him a graduate assistant coach at Iowa in 1989.
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