Dochterman: Drive for 325 has turned Iowa football into a cheap punchline

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Iowa scored more points against Western Michigan than it had in the last 25 games. But that's just a footnote in the Drive to 325.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A sixth-team walk-on running back scored his first career touchdown. A true freshman running back scored two. A woefully deficient Iowa running attack put up 254 rushing yards, more than at any time since 2019. And the team scored more points Saturday in a 41-10 beatdown ofBut what does this outcome mean to non-fans beyond the Iowa borders? Nothing but a cheap laugh. Haha, thefinally scored more than 25 points. Haha, No.

This is the downside of the stupid designated performance objectives written into Brian Ferentz’s revised contract last February. In Appendix C of his contract, which was forced by former athletics director Gary Barta, Iowa’s offense must average 25 points per game and win seven games. If the offense doesn’t meet those objectives, Brian Ferentz’s contract terminates. But it doesn’t say anything about not signing a different deal at the same time.

But that’s not what people see — or want to see — and it would work the same way if the objectives were in place at somewhere like

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