Kirk Ferentz on whether or not he’ll return to Iowa in 2025: ‘That is my plan’
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz discusses a wide range of subjects on early signing day.
IOWA CITY — Kirk Ferentz plans to be on the Iowa soccer sideline subsequent yr for his twenty seventh season as head coach.
“You recognize one thing I do not know?” Ferentz joked Wednesday when requested about his future. “(However) that is my plan, yeah.”
Only one recreation stays in Ferentz’s twenty sixth Iowa season, a yr by which the Hawkeyes completed the common season 8-4 with shiny spots and frustration blended collectively. The veteran head coach is 204-123 all-time at Iowa, one victory away from tying Ohio State’s Woody Hayes for many wins at a Massive Ten program.
Ferentz will probably be 70 years previous by the point Iowa kicks off the 2025 season. And with the quickly evolving panorama of school athletics taking on — for higher or worse with NIL and the switch portal — a number of older, high-profile school coaches have known as it quits in recent times.
For all of the issues Ferentz questions in right this moment’s local weather, he feels the great thing about school athletics nonetheless stays.
“There are loads of issues that I do not need to say are irritating. However loads of issues make you actually step again and assume, ‘Huh, that is attention-grabbing.’ However the extra the sport modifications, the extra the circumstances change — it is nonetheless about being round good individuals,” Ferentz mentioned. “And what we take pleasure in, I believe I converse for our complete workers, once you get the best guys in your crew it is loads of enjoyable. We’re 100-plus inhabitants, so not the whole lot goes to be excellent. We’re not all going to greatest buddies. However I believe there is a mutual respect amongst our crew and folks in this system. To be a part of that each day is fairly particular. So I am having fun with that a part of it.
“There are issues that frustrate you, clearly, at occasions. Accidents frustrate you, and you’ll’t do a factor about them. It is simply a part of the sport. And I want it was 20 levels hotter the opposite night time, fairly frankly. Quite a lot of issues you possibly can’t management. However the good things remains to be the good things. That hasn’t modified, and that is the enjoyable half about this factor.”
Dargan Southard is a sports activities trending reporter and covers Iowa athletics for the Des Moines Register and HawkCentral.com. E-mail him at [email protected] or observe him on Twitter at @Dargan_Southard.
