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Old-school Ferentz right fit for the Hawkeyes

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Monday, August 22, 2005

CHICAGO -- The rumor is true. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz visited Penn State in April on the weekend of the Nittany Lions' spring game. Talk about chum to feed the chat-room sharks: It all made sense. Ferentz, a western Pee-Ay guy, would return to his home state to replace Joe Paterno. In an age of contract-skipping coaches, in an age when coaches are given three years to produce or be dumped, in an age when a coach sneezes and 300 people on the Internet type "Gesundheit," you don't have to be an O ...

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