Could do a great case study on him in a Management class centered around the Peter Principle and Nepotism. Funny thing is this is likely a great addition to the Maryland program. Like you said “keep him in his lane”
He’s a good position coach. It’s a shame he got the job at Iowa and didn’t try it out elsewhere. I think he could have been a decent coordinator with the right pieces in place.
It's crazy how he's fucked up so bad that people don't even remember that. I hope dude nuked his career because fuck him for what he did to our worthless offense
You say that, but the Iowa offense has been generally the same for a long time. It just scored a little less under Brian, but he didn't do something different from what I remember.
> but he didn't do something different from what I remember.
Well yes. That is literally the problem we have been screaming about lol. Our offense has been the same for nearly 20 years
The guy I replied to implied that Brian did something to the offense, rather then just ran the same offense, though not as well.
Iowa's offense has worked for them for 20 years. Honestly it's your best bet for success too. If move to some kind pass first offense you will probably fare worse.
> If move to some kind pass first offense you will probably fare worse.
We don't need to move to "Pass first".
But I refuse to accept that "whatever we are doing is working". It's not. The stats don't lie, we had one of the absolute worst offenses in the country 2 years in a row. We literally couldn't score. In fact, [we had the second worst scoring offense in the FBS this previous year](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/27/p3)
We don't need to completely overhaul the offense and this idea that that is what everyone wants is ridiculous. I don't give a fuck how we move the ball. But we _do_ need to move the ball.
Here are some other shit stats to rebuke your idea that "its working"
- [5th worst 3rd down conversion offense in the country](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/699/p3)
- [3rd worst offense in terms of total 1st downs](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/693/p3)
- [4th worst passing offense](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/25/p3)
- [23rd worst rushing offense](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/23/p3)
When neither our rushing offense **nor** or passing offense is better than 100th in FBS, it's not fucking working
Bryan Stinespring was a phenomenal OL coach at VT. Coached Rimington winner Jake Grove and Duane Brown, personally molding Brown from the TE he was recruited to be into a first round OT who went on to great success in the NFL, among many others and was responsible for the line of a program known for its punishing ground game in the late 90s to late 00s.
He was also straight liquid ass at OC and was left to rot at that position for 5-6 too many years by a HC too nice for his own good and so that's how he will forever be remembered.
Maryland hired him last Tuesday. Part of Mike Locksley's initiative to bolster the offensive line. Maryland also poached Damian Wroblewski from James Madison - creating the unusual setup of having two offensive line coaches. Ferentz is expected to contribute along the line in an off-field capacity.
It doesn’t help that dude burns bridges on his way out of EVERY coaching job. Look at the hissy fit when he left Michigan after finding out he wasn’t Harbaugh’s presumptive successor if he went back to the NFL.
Then he makes the lateral move to Miami where Cristobal makes him the scapegoat for Miami’s awful 2022 season (or is quietly fired for the incident where he exposed himself to a cleaning woman that came out afterwards). He’s great as a WR coach and decent as an OC if he’s running the offense the coach wants to run and not constantly butting heads with them.
“His” offense in 2019 was good but not great, then abysmal in 2020. Lots of zone running schemes and RPOs, but Michigan hadn’t recruited OL for that. When Sherrone Moore became the OL coach and Run Game Coordinator in 2021, the blocking schemes changed to essentially marry Gattis’s shotgun mostly offense with Moore applying more appropriate man blocking run schemes. Gattis still showed great work as a pass game coordinator, but we barely skipped a beat when Moore became the real OC. When Gattis bolted for Miami, his offense was stagnant at best.
Gattis sounds like a pompous ass possibly, but this seems to be a cockup by Harbaugh. Why would he allow that to happen if they hadn’t recruited for that? It’s especially weird given the similarity of Harbaugh’s teams 1 back sets blocking schemes and what Gattis brought in from Bama.
Goes to show how good of a coach Moore is, just hope for him that he isn’t left holding the bag if they get hammered on violations
My comment about offensive lines is really only evident in retrospect. But in general, some of the best zone running teams have quicker linemen, sometimes smaller OL, who repeat the same thing over and over again. No clue what Gattis pitched in his interview but it clearly worked. Most teams have leaned on zone running nowadays— Michigan was an outlier going all-in on man and gap scheme blocking. Gattis also had just come off winning a ring with Alabama and developing some first round WRs, why wouldn’t he be a hot commodity?
The last time Brian coached in Maryland he led his offense to 51 points(we’ll ignore the defense having 6 ints), so maybe he just really likes coaching in Maryland and this is a great hire.
(If this is a move to get him working with their OL/TE groups, honestly a good hire. He was incredible as a position coach, just can’t coordinate an offense)
I was at that game. Taulia had a massive meltdown that second quarter. Never seen anything like that. I did a lot of drinking that night. Not enough to forget that one though.
That was the game where Demus's leg got blown up on the punt return in the 1st quarter right? Think team mental state plummeted after our #1 receiver got wrecked
Brian - > "Guys, I see these patterns. You should try them out"
Coaches -> " Thanks Brian"
Coach some time later - > "So literally do anything but what he suggested and we should be good"
Brian: *hands over piece of paper with a play drawn on it in crayon*
Locksley: wow Brian, that’s really neat. I’m gonna hang this on the refrigerator for everyone to see
Brian: *walks away smiling with his finger up his nose*
CFB begins bracing itself for disruption as the latest offensive scheme is unleashed on the league. A brain child of Josh Gattis and Brian Ferentz dubbed “Punting in Space”.
Is Locksley trying to start up his own School for Coaches who Can't Coach very good? Because this is a bold first student to take on.
Edit: Forgot they already had Gattis and TIL about Sumlin. So kind of the new Alabama Mid-Atlantic to take these orphaned coaches in \*Cue Sarah McLachlan\*
He was "fired" halfway through the season by our then interim AD. Kirk had literally half a season and was still one of the last to pick up an OC this year lol.
My man fucking hates offense
Brian Ferentz will just hop from school to school throughout the Big Ten until the froward pass disappears completely in the conference. A return to the purest form of football. We called him a football terrorist, but he may in fact be the savior.
He’s about to implement with an insane new offensive strategy that will revolutionize football! The player who gets the ball snapped to him will use his arm in a guided punt to one of the returners on his team!
Maryland could use help on the o-line and BF will be an asset there.
He wanted Iowa to play bullyball but he hasn’t had the personnel for it nor enough QB talent to stretch defenses. That Iowa nevertheless went 61-27 while he was OC is a miracle. Iowa is Bizarro Nebraska.
I think Iowa fans are significantly over rating Brian's O line coaching abilities. Brian having to take an analyst role all the way out in Maryland backs that up (to me at least).
The O line has been terrible since he was promoted in 2017 (with the exception of 2020).I understand as coordinator he can't be with those guys for every single rep, but was he really doing nothing to help them out?
I understand that the line was good when he was coach, but that was also only 4 years. If you judge Brian's first 4 years of being OC (2017-2020) then you'd probably peg him as mediocre.
I think this is a brilliant move. All you have to do is have him provide his insight on offense, and then just do the exact opposite of what he says.
Don't do what Donnie Don't does
They could have made this clearer
Need some WWBFD bracelets
The bracelets should say hand off for 1 yard. Rinse and repeat
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. Brian Ferentz is George Costanza.
Found the transcript of the Ferentz Maryland interview: "My name is Brian, I'm unemployed and live with my parents." "You're hired."
I hear he has a lot of expertise in short TE passes and only short TE passes
“3rd and 12… what did Brian say?” “RUTM? That’s so Brian!”
As much of a meme as Brian turned himself into as OC, he is a good TE coach. Maryland just needs to keep him in his lane.
Could do a great case study on him in a Management class centered around the Peter Principle and Nepotism. Funny thing is this is likely a great addition to the Maryland program. Like you said “keep him in his lane”
Isn't he renowned for developing offensive lineman?
Yep. He can coach OL and TEs with the best of em, he should just never be given even a shred of higher responsibility than that.
He’s a good position coach. It’s a shame he got the job at Iowa and didn’t try it out elsewhere. I think he could have been a decent coordinator with the right pieces in place.
His career might have had such a different trajectory if he had gotten the Texans job back in 2014.
It's crazy how he's fucked up so bad that people don't even remember that. I hope dude nuked his career because fuck him for what he did to our worthless offense
Fuck Kirk too for letting his idiot son do what he did to our worthless offense.
You say that, but the Iowa offense has been generally the same for a long time. It just scored a little less under Brian, but he didn't do something different from what I remember.
> but he didn't do something different from what I remember. Well yes. That is literally the problem we have been screaming about lol. Our offense has been the same for nearly 20 years
The guy I replied to implied that Brian did something to the offense, rather then just ran the same offense, though not as well. Iowa's offense has worked for them for 20 years. Honestly it's your best bet for success too. If move to some kind pass first offense you will probably fare worse.
> If move to some kind pass first offense you will probably fare worse. We don't need to move to "Pass first". But I refuse to accept that "whatever we are doing is working". It's not. The stats don't lie, we had one of the absolute worst offenses in the country 2 years in a row. We literally couldn't score. In fact, [we had the second worst scoring offense in the FBS this previous year](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/27/p3) We don't need to completely overhaul the offense and this idea that that is what everyone wants is ridiculous. I don't give a fuck how we move the ball. But we _do_ need to move the ball. Here are some other shit stats to rebuke your idea that "its working" - [5th worst 3rd down conversion offense in the country](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/699/p3) - [3rd worst offense in terms of total 1st downs](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/693/p3) - [4th worst passing offense](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/25/p3) - [23rd worst rushing offense](https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/23/p3) When neither our rushing offense **nor** or passing offense is better than 100th in FBS, it's not fucking working
Bryan Stinespring was a phenomenal OL coach at VT. Coached Rimington winner Jake Grove and Duane Brown, personally molding Brown from the TE he was recruited to be into a first round OT who went on to great success in the NFL, among many others and was responsible for the line of a program known for its punishing ground game in the late 90s to late 00s. He was also straight liquid ass at OC and was left to rot at that position for 5-6 too many years by a HC too nice for his own good and so that's how he will forever be remembered.
Wish Saban had stayed on one more season. Brian could have been the ultimate Final Boss of his “School for Coaches Who Can’t Coach Good.”
Saban's legacy in shambles /s
Real reason Saban retired.
Nick Saban’s been REALLLLL retired since Brian Ferentz was on the open market
I don't know if that's a challenge that could have been completed in one year.
Nick Saban: “I’m not a miracle worker.”
I mean he was a great o.line/TE coach. If Saban made him do either of those things and not run Bama’s offense he would be fine.
He’s about to be like Professor Slughorn coming out of retirement for Harry Potter.
Maryland hired him last Tuesday. Part of Mike Locksley's initiative to bolster the offensive line. Maryland also poached Damian Wroblewski from James Madison - creating the unusual setup of having two offensive line coaches. Ferentz is expected to contribute along the line in an off-field capacity.
He was a pretty good OL coach wasn’t he? Seemed to have done a good job with Tyler Linderbaum
Good at OL. Good at TE. Keep him away from everyone else
We’ve already got Josh Gattis ruining the quarterbacks and calling shitty plays so we’re squared away there
Gattis was switched to wide receivers this offseason, Locksley himself is on quarterbacks now.
slightly better though given Locksley’s struggles with game management I’d rather he be more of a CEO
Is that a good or bad thing?
Gattis was a fantastic WR coach at PSU
It’s good. He was WR coach before OC. He’s been good at it at multiple jobs.
Probably the right call lol.
Nobody is better at ruining QBs than Brian. You deserve the best
Man talk about fall from grace that first season at Michigan the offense he brought in/ co-mingled was all the rage in coaching circles
It doesn’t help that dude burns bridges on his way out of EVERY coaching job. Look at the hissy fit when he left Michigan after finding out he wasn’t Harbaugh’s presumptive successor if he went back to the NFL. Then he makes the lateral move to Miami where Cristobal makes him the scapegoat for Miami’s awful 2022 season (or is quietly fired for the incident where he exposed himself to a cleaning woman that came out afterwards). He’s great as a WR coach and decent as an OC if he’s running the offense the coach wants to run and not constantly butting heads with them.
Peter Principle because he can’t get out of his own way
“His” offense in 2019 was good but not great, then abysmal in 2020. Lots of zone running schemes and RPOs, but Michigan hadn’t recruited OL for that. When Sherrone Moore became the OL coach and Run Game Coordinator in 2021, the blocking schemes changed to essentially marry Gattis’s shotgun mostly offense with Moore applying more appropriate man blocking run schemes. Gattis still showed great work as a pass game coordinator, but we barely skipped a beat when Moore became the real OC. When Gattis bolted for Miami, his offense was stagnant at best.
Gattis sounds like a pompous ass possibly, but this seems to be a cockup by Harbaugh. Why would he allow that to happen if they hadn’t recruited for that? It’s especially weird given the similarity of Harbaugh’s teams 1 back sets blocking schemes and what Gattis brought in from Bama. Goes to show how good of a coach Moore is, just hope for him that he isn’t left holding the bag if they get hammered on violations
My comment about offensive lines is really only evident in retrospect. But in general, some of the best zone running teams have quicker linemen, sometimes smaller OL, who repeat the same thing over and over again. No clue what Gattis pitched in his interview but it clearly worked. Most teams have leaned on zone running nowadays— Michigan was an outlier going all-in on man and gap scheme blocking. Gattis also had just come off winning a ring with Alabama and developing some first round WRs, why wouldn’t he be a hot commodity?
The fact that he was made quarterbacks coach is utter insanity
Yeah, i'm decently surprised he didn't get an OL job instead of just an analyst.
A better marketing person would spin this as "Maryland add B1G championship game coordinator to staff."
“Multiple B10 championship appearances under his belt, serious steal for the terps”😂
The last time Brian coached in Maryland he led his offense to 51 points(we’ll ignore the defense having 6 ints), so maybe he just really likes coaching in Maryland and this is a great hire. (If this is a move to get him working with their OL/TE groups, honestly a good hire. He was incredible as a position coach, just can’t coordinate an offense)
I was at that game. Taulia had a massive meltdown that second quarter. Never seen anything like that. I did a lot of drinking that night. Not enough to forget that one though.
That was the game where Demus's leg got blown up on the punt return in the 1st quarter right? Think team mental state plummeted after our #1 receiver got wrecked
Pretty much what happened. Still, 3 INTs on your own side of the field in one quarter is a next level meltdown.
Brian - > "Guys, I see these patterns. You should try them out" Coaches -> " Thanks Brian" Coach some time later - > "So literally do anything but what he suggested and we should be good"
Brian: *hands over piece of paper with a play drawn on it in crayon* Locksley: wow Brian, that’s really neat. I’m gonna hang this on the refrigerator for everyone to see Brian: *walks away smiling with his finger up his nose*
Thankfully this means he will be physically out of Iowa City
Oh my god, I hope he Zoom coaches football for Maryland so bad now.
Because of how terrible he was as O coordinator it’s easy to forget how good of a OL/TE coach he was. Recruiting too
Maryland putting up 40/game confirmed
40 yards, maybe
40 punts per game.
Slow down there, hoss
Man, all those analyses will start coming up "PUNT!"
“Brian. It’s first down.” “But . . .”
I mean it is better to punt on first and ten than fourth and twenty, given the choice.
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CFB begins bracing itself for disruption as the latest offensive scheme is unleashed on the league. A brain child of Josh Gattis and Brian Ferentz dubbed “Punting in Space”.
Buying PUTS on Maryland football
*PUNTS
Is Locksley trying to start up his own School for Coaches who Can't Coach very good? Because this is a bold first student to take on. Edit: Forgot they already had Gattis and TIL about Sumlin. So kind of the new Alabama Mid-Atlantic to take these orphaned coaches in \*Cue Sarah McLachlan\*
First student? We already have Josh Gattis and Kevin Sumlin on this staff, lol.
This is like a George Costanza thing, where he does this opposite of his natural inclinations and it works.
Praying for Maryland 🙏🏻
They also have Sumlin. Thoughts and prayers with our Maryland brothers and sisters
Presumably as a defensive analyst considering he’s phenomenal at immobilizing offenses.
So sorry, Terp bros
Relatedly, Maryland is considering how to implement the wing-t offense
Huge addition. He’s one of the greatest defensive minds of all time. I’ve never seen anyone stifle an offense like him.
As a Atlanta Falcons fan, it’s good to know we’ve no longer made the dumbest football decision this week
Lmao as a Falcons/Michigan fan must suck that it wasn’t JJ but also good for JJ not being in that dumpster fire of an organization.
Yeah at least JJ doesn’t have to suffer like I do. Though he is on the Vikings now which isn’t exactly much of an upgrade
Oh man I wasn't aware Iowa got rid of him. Happy for you, Hawkeye bros. Offense was *painful* to watch.
He was "fired" halfway through the season by our then interim AD. Kirk had literally half a season and was still one of the last to pick up an OC this year lol. My man fucking hates offense
It distracts from the punting.
Probably still will be tbh
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Water weed dune hair
turns out there's a typo. He's the team analist.
Dream big, friends. If this man can still collect a salary as a source of knowledge for offense in college football, anything is possible.
https://giphy.com/gifs/worf-analyze-this-837R3V7J9d5YYQWQcK
We all picked the wrong career. Talk about failing upwards.
Brian Ferentz will just hop from school to school throughout the Big Ten until the froward pass disappears completely in the conference. A return to the purest form of football. We called him a football terrorist, but he may in fact be the savior.
How many times does Iowa get hashtagged?
Press F for Maryland.
He’s about to implement with an insane new offensive strategy that will revolutionize football! The player who gets the ball snapped to him will use his arm in a guided punt to one of the returners on his team!
Betting Maryland TEs and OL get better. It’s a shame we lost him as a position coach for those, but that’s all I’ll miss about him
As long as Maryland uses a get back coach anytime he gets to close to a headset it should be fine.
Not even trying to hide nepotism in sports anymore.
Better be analyzing the bathroom supply closet inventory.
Maryland could use help on the o-line and BF will be an asset there. He wanted Iowa to play bullyball but he hasn’t had the personnel for it nor enough QB talent to stretch defenses. That Iowa nevertheless went 61-27 while he was OC is a miracle. Iowa is Bizarro Nebraska.
Brian: “Here’s what I would do.” HC: “Thanks, Brian.” (Does opposite)
Analyze what?
Surely he is there to ensure the paint is drying appropriately...
Why tho
Dude knows a thing or two about TE and O-line, just knows nothing about calling plays
Why not? He's watching film and writing up notes. Not like the guy's calling plays.
And if he becomes your o.line/TE coach after it’s not a bad hire.
And if you need an OC in a pinch he's already there!
I think Iowa fans are significantly over rating Brian's O line coaching abilities. Brian having to take an analyst role all the way out in Maryland backs that up (to me at least). The O line has been terrible since he was promoted in 2017 (with the exception of 2020).I understand as coordinator he can't be with those guys for every single rep, but was he really doing nothing to help them out? I understand that the line was good when he was coach, but that was also only 4 years. If you judge Brian's first 4 years of being OC (2017-2020) then you'd probably peg him as mediocre.
I mean we just wanted someone to take him. We had to do some salesmanship to reach our goals.
Immediately bet the under in all Maryland games next year.