Iowa football notebook: Kirk Ferentz has high hopes for offensive line with ‘awesome coach’ George Barnett

John Steppe The repeat title prompted the 6-foot-5, 320-pound offensive lineman to be “talking a little crap” this week about it. “He was taking bows in our meeting because I announced that,” Ferentz said. Ferentz made a prediction about next year’s hay bale toss, though, and told reporters to “write this down.

” “You may see an upset next year,” Ferentz said. His upset pick? Logan Jones. “Not that far behind him,” Ferentz said of Jones.

“Gennings exaggerated a little bit. I think he said he was like two feet in front. It was more like inches.

So I think he pissed Logan off yesterday. ” Bret Bielema’s ‘last rodeo’ Illinois Coach Bret Bielema squashed any speculation that he might replace Kirk Ferentz whenever Ferentz retires, noting that he signed a no-compete clause with other Big Ten teams. “I wanted to get back into head coaching, but I didn't want to go to a situation where I didn't think it could be sustained,” Bielema said.

“I wanted this to be my last rodeo. ” Ferentz, 67, said earlier this year the question of how much longer to coach has “not really” crossed his mind. “So long as you love doing what you’re doing, I don’t know why you’d stop,” Ferentz told The Gazette in a May one-on-one interview.

“That’s kind of the plan right now. ” .