Fire Ken O'Keefe
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The University of Iowa has a great football tradition, and has achieved great success under current head coach Kirk Ferentz. Throughout the country they are always known for having a strong, stout defense and one of the best offensive lines year in and year out. The Hawkeyes do not go out and recruit the top high school stars in the country, and put their name in the headlines of all the papers. They draft home state kids, and kids who aren't given a chance by other schools, and coach them into becoming great football players. Every year, the Iowa Hawkeyes are getting players drafted into the NFL, and seeing more and more success once they reach the professional level. Star players such as Bob Sanders, Chad Greenway, Aaron Kampman, Shonn Greene, Robert Gallery, Eric Steinbeck, Dallas Clark, among many, many others, all have come proudly from the University of Iowa.
So with such great tradition and such talented players, some may ask, "Why aren't the Iowa Hawkeyes ever in contention for the National Title?" As a life-long Iowa Hawkeyes fan, I have frequently wondered the same thing. We put just as many players into the NFL as any other school. We have a competitive team every year. Why don't we ever have a team that competes for a National Title? The answer is in a name. Ken O'Keefe.
The fact is, the Iowa Hawkeyes have a great tradition of strong defense and a superb offensive line under head coach Kirk Ferentz and defensive coordinator Norm Parker. Since these two received their stated jobs, we have been good in those departments. Our offense however, has not been. Despite having great players with playmaking ability, our offense comes up short every year. These players get recognition for their talent from college awards to being drafted in the NFL, so why does the offense struggle and hold back the Hawkeyes from championships? Players such as Shonn Greene, Dallas Clark, Fred Russell, Brad Banks, Albert Young, etc., all had NFL talent. The reasoning is Ken O'Keefe. He is the single worst assistant coach in college football. He takes all this talent, and ruins it with horrible play calling.
Let's take this season for instance. All in one moment, Iowa's dream season and national title aspirations were eliminated because of a horrible play call. A play-action bootleg in our own endzone not only led to a touchdown for the opposing team, giving them momentum, but also injured our leader and quarterback in Ricky Stanzi, seriously hurting our chances of even winning the conference.
This is why I am calling on the support of everyone who has ever watched Iowa Hawkeye football in the last 12 years to fire Ken O'Keefe. For too long he has held our program back from becoming a National Title contender. Iowa has too great of players and coaching for one man to continue to hurt our program.
Please, Kirk Ferentz and any other University of Iowa athletic management, for the sake of our wonderful football program and amazing fan base...
Fire offensive coordinator Ken O'Keefe.
So with such great tradition and such talented players, some may ask, "Why aren't the Iowa Hawkeyes ever in contention for the National Title?" As a life-long Iowa Hawkeyes fan, I have frequently wondered the same thing. We put just as many players into the NFL as any other school. We have a competitive team every year. Why don't we ever have a team that competes for a National Title? The answer is in a name. Ken O'Keefe.
The fact is, the Iowa Hawkeyes have a great tradition of strong defense and a superb offensive line under head coach Kirk Ferentz and defensive coordinator Norm Parker. Since these two received their stated jobs, we have been good in those departments. Our offense however, has not been. Despite having great players with playmaking ability, our offense comes up short every year. These players get recognition for their talent from college awards to being drafted in the NFL, so why does the offense struggle and hold back the Hawkeyes from championships? Players such as Shonn Greene, Dallas Clark, Fred Russell, Brad Banks, Albert Young, etc., all had NFL talent. The reasoning is Ken O'Keefe. He is the single worst assistant coach in college football. He takes all this talent, and ruins it with horrible play calling.
Let's take this season for instance. All in one moment, Iowa's dream season and national title aspirations were eliminated because of a horrible play call. A play-action bootleg in our own endzone not only led to a touchdown for the opposing team, giving them momentum, but also injured our leader and quarterback in Ricky Stanzi, seriously hurting our chances of even winning the conference.
This is why I am calling on the support of everyone who has ever watched Iowa Hawkeye football in the last 12 years to fire Ken O'Keefe. For too long he has held our program back from becoming a National Title contender. Iowa has too great of players and coaching for one man to continue to hurt our program.
Please, Kirk Ferentz and any other University of Iowa athletic management, for the sake of our wonderful football program and amazing fan base...
Fire offensive coordinator Ken O'Keefe.
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Seth Atkinson
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josh ross
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chuck hartlieb
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why
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- Guys, I know the loss stings but its not time to start point fingers. Look at what we still do have.
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Douglas Dillon
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- A naked boot-leg from your own endzone?? Last straw for me, and blitzing is still allowed in the Big 10, go check the rules!!
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shelley atkinson
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Eric Walters
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Ryan Harringa
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- How can a top 25 program have a bottom 50 offense year after year?
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Jennifer Mulnix
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Kyle Hughes
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- Loyalty is a great thing but it is time
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jay halda
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- Ken O'keefe needs to go he has done very little for are offense the past five years and we need some one new who get it done for once.
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Ryan Steinkuehler
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- Needed for awhile.
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Yvette Gladwin
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Nitt Hopes
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Nick Clarke
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Jeff Saboe
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- I hope Ken O'Keefe dies in a fiery pit, while being devoured by starving maggots!
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Tyler Nieland
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- Making the decision to force a freshman QB into OT with a perfect 53 seconds to do something with the ball...Hawk Nation needs someone who won't make STUPID decisions
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Dave Lundberg
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Tabbie Mortenson
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Randy Lundberg
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Al Clarke
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Dani
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- Week! Peasant!
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Kevin
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- They could demote him to some other position.
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Gail Orcutt
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Pete Helgason
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- don't screw up the 2010 season KOK
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Elliot Heim
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- He has been the worst thing to happen to Hawkeye football
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Taylor David Heim
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Richard Berry
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- He needs to be fired immediately after this season!
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Tony Cahalan
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- FIRE HIM NOW!
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Jeff Cutler
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- HE MUST GO!!! Too much talent wasted!!!!
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Chad
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- totaly lacks imagination
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Jon Toyne
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- I WANT HIM GONE ASAP!!!!
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Bill
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Devin
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- Nov 2010 loss to Northwestern. What a pathetic display of talent. O'keefe needs gone and now.... He is wasting talent with his play calls and guidance. complete garbage
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CJJ
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- KEN O'KEEFE IS A ************* * ** * ** * *** * * ** * * **
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Ryan Hoffman
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- Tired of this joke conservative play calling losing us games
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dave wells
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- went to the iowa northwestern game and saw the same predictable offense as usual when we should run we pass and when we should maybe go play action we run. its so vanilla ! time for him to go 2 yrs ago !
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Bryan Whiting
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Kurt Kroemer
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- Long overdue
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Justin Haning
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Eric Jones
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- FIRE HIM NOW!!!!
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Scott Noble
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darin smith
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- this team should average 35 pts. a game easily
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Jerome Martin
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- Please
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Jake Folger
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- He's the weak link in thechain of our success.
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jim jacobsen
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- A LOOSER
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joe alumni
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- its time, he works for us
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Ethan Lee Palmer
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- Lost four games because he was scared to lose.
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Bill Haakinson
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- KOK is the 1 reason we have had such a disappointing season
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PW
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- Ken O'Keefe ruins quarterbacks as the quarterbacks coach. He single handedly prevents wins in close games with play calling. At the very least, dont let him coach the quarterbacks.
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