Wadley stayed all 4 years at Iowa. It would be interesting to know why he didn't transfer to another school.
Regardless, they have quite the mess on their hands with that football program. Probably will need a reboot with a new coach and culture.

Being stuck in a cornfield in the middle of nowhere with only the local media watching over has helped Ferentz survive.

Way back in Fall of 2007, a student claimed that she was raped by Iowa football players. Ferentz and the AD talked the girl out of going to the authorities and said they would handle it. You can guess how they handled it.

In 2011, 13 Iowa football players ended up hospitalized after 'strenuous' workouts. Some serious red flags there and I'm surprised there wasn't more blowback or investigating done. My "steroids" radar went off at that time. Doyle was the S&C coach then.

Recently Doyle took the fall for some shit going on and I just wonder how long it will be before the media turns their eyes towards Ferentz?

And for the record, Iowa is not alone. A great many other programs have lots of skeletons in their proverbial closet.

Realizing he was the best they could hope for, Iowa paid him like a top 10 coach, even though I don't think he's actually in that class.

against the Iowa program but I have followed Iowa for years and the reasons Ferentz has been a long time coach has nothing to do with the location of Iowa City or in spite of any misdoings in my view.

Rather -- [1] He almost always puts a competitive team on the field. [2] He gets as much out of his players as probably any coach in the country. [3] Players like him and like playing for him. I happened to have recently spoken to a former African-American Iowa player who has transferred to Illinois State. Forget his name but he plays tight end. He mentioned players really like the head coach. This was just a few months ago in 2020, not back in 2007 or 2011.

with 2 FcS oppts most years.

Deleting FCS wins puts Ferentz about .600
(up until recently FCS games did not count
in overall record).

I am not suggesting that Ferentz is another Holtz but only that his long tenure at Iowa is not surprising as suggested by a poster. Won-loss records are not the only way to evaluate a coach, although his is respectable in context.

An opposing coach, for example, in the recent 2020 Athlon College Magazine said, "They're as fundamentally sound and disciplined a team as you will ever see" (p. 127). His teams are also developmental. Currently Iowa has 24 active players in the NFL [Georgia 29, Clemson 27, ND 25].

Yea I am biased. I just like the guy. He is low key, likeable, knows how to coach, cares for the players, players care for him, and he takes time to stand when the persons at home games acknowledge the kids with cancer in the famous Iowa hospital. Yea I am a softie. His team is also very unified. Sometime watch the team as it comes out holding hands at the start of the game. Moving for the fans.

BTW -- schools can schedule lower division teams for reasons other than trying to pad the schedule. Ferentz is a very good friend with the former Purdue assistant coach who is now the head coach at Illinois state. This is why Iowa scheduled ISU. Nice gesture on Ferentz's part.

At least with regard to the playing two FCS teams per year part. During Ferentz's tenure, Iowa has played one FCS opponent per year from 2005 to the present, with the exception of 2017 and 2019 due to the Big 10's rule about scheduling FCS teams. Iowa has played the following FCS opponents:

- Northern Iowa (2005, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020)
- Montana (2006)
- Maine (2008)
- Eastern Illinois (2010)
- Tennessee Tech (2011)
- Missouri State (2013)
- Illinois State (2015)
- North Dakota State (2016, a loss)

You are correct that if you removed his 12-1 record vs. FCS opponents, he'd have about a .600 win percentage (.593 to be exact). His nonconference win percentage would go from .691 to .654. To be fair to Ferentz, he had a miserable first two years at Iowa. Since then, he's posted a .650 win percentage (.635 FCS adjusted).

There are rules about counting FCS games for bowl eligibility purposes which passed in 2012, but those games still counted in a coach's overall record prior to that.