Kirk Ferentz re-signs with Iowa through 2025 season

The Iowa Hawkeyes have given longtime coach Kirk Ferentz a six-year contract extension and raise through the 2025 season, the school announced Tuesday. The longest-tenured coach in the Big Ten was already under contract through 2020, and his new contract includes a bump in pay.

Ferentz, 61, will make $4.5 million per season under the new extension, which the school said runs through January 31, 2026.

Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz doesn’t appear to be heading anywhere, at least for the foreseeable future. Ironically, Stoops was a player at Iowa and served as an assistant coach along with Ferentz under former Hawkeyes coach Hayden Fry.

“Iowa is home to me my wife, Mary, and our five children. We appreciate and value what it is to be an Iowan and an Iowa Hawkeye”. “It is a tremendous privilege and responsibility to lead the Iowa football program”, Ferentz in the release. Ferentz and the members of his staff will also be eligible for bonuses based on performance.

Kirk Ferentz has agreed to an extension good for ten years and $45 million.

Ferentz has been with the Hawkeyes program since he was named head coach back in 1999, and has amassed a 128-87 record and 13 bowl appearances in that time.

The Big Ten honor is the first for Nelson, a 6-foot-7, 253-pound Urbandale native and Waukee graduate who redshirted in 2015.

The Iowa football program annually ranks above its peers and near the top of the Big Ten Conference in the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores. On what was arguably Iowa’s best defensive drive of the game, Nelson forced a fumble on third down, which led to an offensive touchdown brought to you by the 2nd stringers on the team.