When the Iowa Hawkeyes open the 2024-25 college football season, long-time head coach Kirk Ferentz won’t be on the sidelines. The program has suspended Ferentz and wide receivers coach Jon Budmayr for the Week 1 matchup against Illinois State for a potential Level II recruiting violation connected to the courting of quarterback Cade McNamara in the transfer portal.
McNamara spent the first four years of his college career at Michigan before entering the transfer portal following the 2022 campaign. Shortly after the portal opened, McNamara was already committed to Iowa. The agreement coming together so quickly sparked suspicion, and now the program is self-imposing a suspension as a way
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