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Confusion over who actually hired Brian Ferentz in February to serve as an assistant football coach at the University of Iowa resulted in more than one headline punctuated with a question mark.

Confusion over who actually hired Brian Ferentz in February to serve as an assistant football coach at the University of Iowa resulted in more than one headline punctuated with a question mark. While Ferentz, who served on the New England Patriots' staff the past four seasons, made comments indicating that his father, Kirk, the Hawkeyes' head coach, had "reached out" to him with the opening, Iowa athletic director Gary Barta claimed it had been he who "was very interested in pursuing Brian Ferentz to become a member of our football staff due to his strong experience and success in the professional coaching ranks."

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