New Iowa offensive coordinator Tim Lester, influenced by his time in the NFL, aims to establish a run-first offense and build explosive plays. He emphasizes the importance of putting an attractive product on the field. Coach Kirk Ferentz expresses confidence in Lester's appointment, citing his extensive experience, including with Shanahan offenses and RPO game. Lester plans to implement a physical, disciplined, and aggressive offense, with a focus on flexibility to cater to the quarterbacks' strengths. The press conference provides insights into the offensive strategy and the rationale behind Ferentz's selection of Lester as the OC.
New Iowa offensive coordinator Tim Lester promises (or threatens?) to be aggressive. https://t.co/bGYaYzz9n5
What will Iowa football’s offense look like, how and why did Kirk Ferentz pick Tim Lester? 5 takeaways and multiple observations. @TheAthleticCFB https://t.co/ZldkMsvSyC
Also from Tuesday: Tim Lester has 600 pages of pass plays, but needs to figure out what Cade McNamara (and his other QBs) can do best. “If you have a flexible enough offense, you can call it any way (the QB) wants." https://t.co/NLBj53HBr9
Our @Tyler_T15 takes a look at the Tim Lester hire from Kirk Ferentz's point of view, after we heard more details from Iowa's head coach on Tuesday afternoon. https://t.co/N8lJEc3hKO
What will Iowa football's offense look like, how and why did Kirk Ferentz pick Tim Lester? https://t.co/Vokfpx2Lq3
What will Iowa football’s offense look like, how and why did Kirk Ferentz pick Tim Lester? Five takeaways from Iowa’s hour-long press conference. https://t.co/ZldkMsvSyC
Fun? Aggressive? Flexible? And KF saying, "I'm open to anything right now"? An energizing introduction as offensive coordinator from Iowa's Tim Lester today. Column. https://t.co/NLBj53HBr9
Interesting to hear Tim Lester describe his wide range of experience, from Shanahan offenses back at Elmhurst (IL) College, spread at Syracuse, the Saints offense at Purdue, the RPO game at Western Michigan and Shanahan system again last year with Green Bay. "But none of those…
Kirk Ferentz looked closely at Tim Lester's record at Western Michigan when landing on him as OC. https://t.co/lbESaLPv0L
Tim Lester said Iowa’s offense with be physical, disciplined and aggressive.
Kirk Ferentz acknowledges he's aware of outside concern about the length of timeline in the OC search but says, “The whole key to this thing was to ensure we got the best person and the right person for this position. I’m confident we landed the mark there” with Tim Lester.
A full roundup of comments tonight from new OC Tim Lester and HC Kirk Ferentz. (Lester will field media questions at 1:30pm Tuesday, it was announced tonight.) https://t.co/q10pXtIcXN
Tonight, Gary Dolphin asked Kirk Ferentz how much flexibility Tim Lester will have under the head coach's parameters (which have been seen as holding the offense back by some). Some of Ferentz's comments: “We've been here 25 years now, and the parameters have been pretty much…
Tim Lester hints that his time in the NFL will influence Iowa's run-first offense and added: "You’ve got to be able to put a product out there that people want to be a part of. That’s important." Wrote up the bulk of his comments from tonight. https://t.co/q10pXtIcXN
On basketball pregame show, new Iowa OC Tim Lester says everything starts with running the football and building explosive plays off that.