kirk ferentz ha sbeen at iowa for nearly 13 years and has taken thtem 10 bowl games and 2 bcs games
We're in an era where teams under .500 have made bowl games. When you get paid a top 5 salary in all of college football, and your team can't even say it's consistently top 5 in its own conference, damn right your salary becomes a punchline and a factor in ranking you one of the worst coaches.
Keep it all the way live - you don't really pay attention to Iowa football. Which is cool, because, shyt, no one does. But if you did you'd know Ferentz's team has been a mediocre ball of shyt every year recently, losing to conference doormats and non-conference bums (can't trot out the old "we can't recruit, so we have to outwork and outcoach everyone bullshyt when you're losing to the Northern Illinois' of the world), and being top 5 in football players arrested for 4 years. Not to mention covering up two separate alleged sexual assaults. It's happening in Iowa, so no one really cares, but the program is a fukking joke. And that's not even mentioning the players contracting life-threatening illnesses from being overtrained, the coverup of the failed drug tests and the drug-dealing, and the 754 running backs who have been kicked out or transferred in the last 4 years.
The team has finished unranked in 6 of the last 8 seasons. Worse than that, they've underachieved, which is squarely on the coaching staff. The line of thought is Iowa can't recruit with the big boys in the Big 10, but they can out-execute them. Hasn't held true. Despite the cover ups, his players' recurring guest spots in the police blotter, and the horrendous losses to doormat Minnesota two straight years, to intrastate rival Iowa State, and the most recent 10-2 BCS team Iowa had returning all of its important starters yet finishing 8-5 the next season, you rarely if ever hear Kirk's job called into question.
Let's just review this one more time: unranked for 6 out of 8 seasons;
top 5 in football players arrested (including his own fukking son - talk about sorry ass leadership) for a 4 year period; two sexual assault scandals covered up;
4-8 last season, 2-6 in the conference, with home losses to a Central Michigan team that finished 7-6, 4-4 in their mid-major conference and an Iowa State team that finished 6-7, 3-6 in their conference.
Let's not stop there.
He's a top 5 salaried coach in all of college football, and lost the last 6 games of his fukking season last year. The year before that he went 7-6, 4-4 in the conference with yet another loss to Iowa State, and Iowa was one of two Big 10 teams to lose to Minnesota. The year before that he finished 8-5, 4-4 in the conference, lost 3 of the last 4 games to end the season, and once again was one of only two Big 10 teams to lose to Minnesota.
And add to that the fact that in the best season Ferentz ever had, he went to the Orange Bowl with an 11-1 team, they ran the opening kick back 100 yards... and then proceeded to get outscored 38-3 until a garbage time touchdown.
And honestly, I would've put him at #10 .
@ you pointing out small conference coaches. Ferentz has been getting by with that three-year run he have with Banks and crew. 
on his face
