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Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz reflects on coaches who shaped him

Kirk Ferentz’s press conference this week was less about celebrating milestones and more about perspective. The dean of Big Ten coaches had every reason to take a victory lap as his triumph over UMass marked his 206th career win, the most in Big Ten history. Yet Ferentz brushed aside the celebration, preferring to talk about the people and principles that shaped him, and the respect he holds for his next opponent.

Ferentz opened with a nostalgic remembrance of his high school coaches, Bill Merritt and Joe Moore, who helped set him on his coaching path. “Joe Moore is the most obvious, and prior to him was Bill Merritt, who was my first high school coach,” Ferentz said. “He said something nice to me in 10th grad

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