Kirk Ferentz’s 2029 Extension: How an Iowa Football Lifeline Quietly Became a Global Metaphor for Stagnation
Moscow wakes up to the news, Lagos scrolls past it, and a Copenhagen barista shrugs: Kirk Ferentz just signed on to coach Iowa through 2029. On the surface it’s a provincial American story—college football’s answer to tenure—but in the age of global streaming, NIL money that would make a Swiss banker blush, and universities that…