It’s always a treat getting to hear Iowa head football coach Kirk Ferentz on any national radio program. One of the nation’s best is “The Rich Eisen Show” on SiriusXM.
With football camp officially underway, Ferentz joined Eisen to discuss a number of topics last Thursday.
Additions of USC and UCLA
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Eisen started by asking Ferentz about the recent additions of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten beginning in 2024.
“You know, quite honestly, two takeaways for me were, first of all, I was amazed at just the secrecy. I don’t know how big the circle was. It had to be, there had to be more than two people involved. So, the fact that they kept it so quiet whoever was involved, I thought that was really impressive. And then my second thought, I’m really glad I’m not one of the Olympic sport coaches at either of those two schools because they’re going to have some tough road trips. It’s hard to imagine that playing at Iowa or Nebraska would feel like a home game if you’re a coach on the West coast, but that’s kind of what they’re looking at right now,” Ferentz said.
If Ferentz likes expansion
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“Well, as my age would indicate, I am a little bit old school, but I’ve really, you know, you’re just a part of this. I spent a couple years in the NFL and each and every year was a new year and a different year. Certainly, the last 23, 24 years, even longer than that in college football are really interesting. I’ll go back. My first head coaching job was at University of Maine, early 90’s and Kevin White who left Maine, went to Tulane, Arizona State, Notre Dame and just retired at Duke. I remember Kevin talking about the impact of TV sets and realigning of conferences and all of that.
“I had no idea what he was talking about. Zero. The things that he was privy to I guess back 30 years ago, they’ve kind of…
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