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Originally Posted by Priest4Prez
Yeah, bad year for the clones. He may be on every GM's wish list, but what has he done at Iowa? He has been to one BCS Bowl, and was outcoach by................ Pete Carrol
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That's the typical answer.
Pete Carroll coaches at
USC. With the school's prestige alone, he gets the top recruits in the nation year after year after year.
What has Ferentz done? Let's see:
He's taken a mid-tier Big 10 school with 2 and 3* recruits and competed HEAD TO HEAD with Michigan and Ohio State.
He finished in the Top 10 in the nation THREE YEARS IN ROW, one of only 3 coaches to do that - and he did it all with players nobody else wanted.
He took an unrecruited, skinny QB from South Dakota and turned him into a 1st-round NFL LB. Matt Roth, Dallas Clark, Robert Gallery, Eric Steinbach, Aaron Kampmann, Jared Clauss, Erik Jensen, Sean Considine, and Chad Greenway were all players that CHANGED POSITIONS at Iowa, at Ferentz' request, and are now getting playing time in the NFL.