Fans react as Iowa football hires former Wake Forest OC Warren Ruggiero
Iowa football made a splash on Monday by reportedly hiring former Wake Forest offensive coordinator Warren Ruggiero as a senior analyst.
Ruggiero spent the past 11 seasons with the Demon Deacons as Wake Forest's offensive coordinator. Ruggiero was a Broyles Award finalist in 2021 when he combined with star quarterback Sam Hartman to lead the nation's No. 4 scoring offense.
Wake Forest scored a program-best 574 points and averaged a school-record 41.0 points per game during the 2021 college football season.
A 1988 graduate of the University of Delaware, Ruggiero was previously the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Bowling Green (2009-13) and the quarterbacks coach at Kansas State during the 2008 season.
As Iowa head football coach Kirk Ferentz added to his coaching staff with the addition of Ruggiero as an analyst, here's how Hawkeye fans and sports fans took in the news from Monday night.
It's safe to say that fans are excited to see the "Slow Mesh" arrive in Iowa City.
Iowa has hired former Wake Forrest offensive coordinator Warren Ruggiero to be a senior analyst We're back pic.twitter.com/plg3Eechrp
— Barstool Iowa (@BarstoolUIowa) March 4, 2025
Since the start of the 2017 season, Wake Forest's 185 touchdown passes are the most of any school in the ACC and that total ranks tied for seventh nationally during that span (prior to start of 2024 season)Iowa's new senior analyst Warren Ruggiero was the offensive coordinator.
— David Eickholt (@DavidEickholt) March 4, 2025
A little over 1 year ago we had Brian Ferentz.Now we have Tim Lester and Warren Ruggiero.I can't believe this is my life. pic.twitter.com/19xiHxZSmZ
— Phil Parker fan (@dmcbride77) March 4, 2025
You can just tell the Warren Ruggiero hire was more of a Tim Lester move than a Kirk Ferentz move.Let Tim cook pic.twitter.com/mdblkaXryG
— Phil Parker fan (@dmcbride77) March 4, 2025
Pretty interesting news with the Hawks hiring OC Warren Ruggiero.If I had to take a guess…he's being brought in to help speed up the RPO process that Lester wasn't able to incorporate last year. pic.twitter.com/TYgreOK6ww
— JeffreyTheGreek (@JeffreyTheGreek) March 4, 2025
Gronowski seems like the perfect QB for the slow mesh
— FullbackU (@u_fullback) March 4, 2025
Get ready to learn the slow mesh, Hawk fans https://t.co/XIFqzPzRd1 pic.twitter.com/2Ck2dL4r57
— Hawkeye Historian (@Hawk_Historian) March 4, 2025
Mark Gronowski and Kamari Moulton with the minds of Tim Lester and Warren Ruggiero is going to absolutely feed families https://t.co/Qs9rqE2wP5
— Hawkeye Enjoyer 🐤 (@HawkGuyEnjoyer) March 4, 2025
I have a confession.I went to bed thinking of Iowa mastering the #SlowMesh after Kirk Ferentz's latest hirehttps://t.co/wsoFFnT7ha pic.twitter.com/Z1m6JAzxV6
— Doug Samuels 🏈 (@CoachSamz) March 4, 2025
Slow mesh with only Tight Ends could go extremely hard. https://t.co/n0OSpUWSrF
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) March 4, 2025
The potential Iowa Slow Mesh has me kinda excited. https://t.co/IR3s5zpbNq
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) March 4, 2025
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