Maybe it was just a long game for Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, because this answer certainly isn't one you would expect out of a football coach.
Iowa lost to Wisconsin 17-9 on Saturday, but Iowa had a chance to tie things up on a drive in the fourth quarter when the score was 14-6. Facing a fourth-and-five with five minutes remaining, Iowa opted for a field goal on the 23-yard line.
Why didn't Iowa try to go for it and hope for a two-point conversion if they did get a touchdown later? Regardless, it would still be a one-possession game if Iowa converted a field goal or didn't get a fourth down at all. Well, apparently Ferentz was unaware that such a strategy existed to tie the game.
"You have to score twice," Ferentz said when asked about the situation. "It gets down to that. Somehow, some way, you're going to have to score twice. If there's a little bit less, fourth-and-two, something like that, we probably would have gone for the touchdown."
Even when the reporter followed up by saying that a touchdown would have tied the game, Ferentz defends the play call for a field goal as the best decision.
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Going field goal vs. touchdown in this situation is certainly debateable, but that's not the problem here. The part that Ferentz seems adamant that Iowa needed to score twice when they didn't is certainly the issue.
Maybe Ferentz got confused with the field goal that Iowa attempted — and made — when down 17-6 where they really needed two scores, but him being asked about it twice and giving the same mystifying answer certainly won't be pleasing to Iowa fans.
[H/T College Spun]
