Reports: Ferentz suspended for hiring offense

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterAug 22, 2024, 01:20 AM ET

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  • College football press reporter.
  • Signed up with ESPN.com in 2008.
  • Graduate of Northwestern University.Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz

and assistant Jon Budmayr will be suspended one game for an offense related to the recruitment of transfer quarterback Cade McNamara, according to several reports.Ferentz is the country’s longest tenured FBS coach, having actually led Iowa given that

the 1999 season. Budmayr acts as the group’s pass receivers coach after working as a special assistant to Ferentz in 2023 and offensive analyst in 2022. According to media reports, the suspensions relate to an NCAA investigation. Iowa is set to open the season Aug. 31 in the house versus Illinois State.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Ferentz is set up to talk to press reporters Thursday afternoon to conclude

preseason training camp. The Athletic first reported the suspensions for Ferentz and Budmayr.McNamara devoted to Iowa on Dec. 1, 2022, simply 3 days after going into the website as a graduate transfer. He started for Michigan in 2021 as the group won the Big Ten and reached the College Football Playoff, however sustained a season-ending leg injury in the third game of the 2022 season. McNamara has battled injuries throughout his time at Iowa but opened the 2023 season as the group’s starter. Although Ferentz announced in July that McNamara was the group’s starter, McNamara and Northwestern transfer Brendan Sullivan have been competing for the task in camp.Budmayr, a previous Wisconsin quarterback, stank organizer at Colorado State in 2021 before signing up with the Iowa personnel.