None of the University of Iowa’s contracted football coaches — including head coach Kirk Ferentz — participated in the voluntary salary reductions that UI Athletics announced last summer in light of massive pandemic losses that officials cited weeks later in justifying their decision to cut four Hawkeye sports. The football coaches, like all other contracted UI Athletics Department staff, were asked “to consider either participating in the voluntary, temporary salary reduction option or making a donation back to the department sometime during the FY2020-2021 fiscal year,” Senior Associate Athletics Director Matt Henderson told The Gazette.
