Welcome to my world - reporters jockey for position at Kirk Ferentz's press conference after the press conference

This is the scene every Tuesday at Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz's press conferences.

First, the coach sits on a platform and takes questions from TV, radio, newspaper and Web folks. "That it?" Ferentz asks after 20 or 30 minutes, and the press conference is over.

Except that it isn't.

Ferentz then takes about a half-dozen steps to his left and leans against a wall as the non-TV, non-radio part of the press corps asks things it didn't want to ask in front of the electronic crowd.

It's the best part of the deal there for us print/Web mopes. Ferentz can get a true flow of thought going, can answer things with perhaps a bit more substance than when he faces the rat-a-tat of questions from the entire room.

Of course, everyone has to wait their turn to ask their gems. When I have something to ask him in that setting, I try to wait until the very end when everyone else has scattered to conduct player interviews in another part of the football complex. Not that it's gold I don't want to share. I just don't want to have someone else waiting behind me.

It's much like how I prefer to play golf, with no one behind me. I'd rather hit my incredibly bad shots on my own terms rather than feel I hit them poorly because I was rushed.

If you find this remarkably uninteresting, feel free to say so. But like me at Ferentz press conferences, you'll probably be joining a long line.