Iowa Football Has the Easiest Schedule/Most-Overpaid Coach?

To hear Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News tell it, Iowa is in position to grab a bunch of college football wins this year.

But Wilner, a fine college sports writer for that Bay Area paper, doesn't say the reason is the Hawkeyes' personnel.

If that wasn't enough, none other than Forbes Magazine is calling Ferentz the nation's most-overpaid college football coach. That's an opinion provided in one of a series of stories in the business and financial magazine's look at "The Business of College Football."

Forbes: "The most overpaid coach is Iowa's Kirk Ferentz, who made $3.4 million last year despite lackuster results on the field. ... Just how lopsided is Ferentz's deal? During the last three years he's pocketed $10 million, including $4.6 million in 2006, but has led the Hawkeyes to a 19-18 record."

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