Iowa's contract: If you don't laugh, you'll cry
By: Adam Gorney - Rivals.comImagine making $850,000 per year and then failing so wildly that your boss needs to come in and put together an incentives package for you to meet … and if you do meet the low standards in place you get even more money.
Sounds incredible, but that’s the case at Iowa as offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz has taken a pay-cut but can recoup all that money and more if - get this - the Hawkeyes score 25 points per game and win seven games next season.
Not counting the COVID season, Iowa has won seven or more games in 13 of the last 14 seasons. Reaching 25 points per game, though, will be the challenge since the Hawkeyes only mustered 17.7 this past season to finish No. 123 in FBS.
Some incredible facts to consider: Only Rutgers, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Colorado, Northwestern, Colorado State, New Mexico and UMass scores less.
Iowa starting quarterback Spencer Petras threw five touchdowns and five interceptions all season. Only one player on the team (tight end Luke Lachey) had multiple receiving touchdowns. No one on the Hawkeyes rushed for even 60 yards. National champs Georgia scored 616 points this past season; Iowa managed to score 230.
So here we are. Ferentz still has his job, but now with incentives to hit 25 points per game. Big whoop. Eighty-five FBS teams accomplished that monumental feat this past season.
Good work if you can get it.
