<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>A Kirk Ferentz press conference was televised on BTN about 2 hours ago. Kirk said he thought there was a good case to be made for it.<br></div><div>Here is a link to the transcript followed by the relevant excerpt:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://asaptext.com/asap_media/media/26/152/transcripts/3518.html">http://asaptext.com/asap_media/media/26/152/transcripts/3518.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">"Q. </b><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Drew said that he might apply for a sixth year.</b><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #ffffff;">KIRK FERENTZ: It's actually a fifth year, yeah. Absolutely, we'd be crazy not to try it. I think there's a fair case to be heard. I don't know how the NCAA rules on things. I really don't pretend to be an expert in that regard, but I think if you listen to the whole case, it's worth at least presenting, and we'll see where it takes us.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Q. </b><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Were you surprised that he said he was coming back?</b><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #ffffff;">KIRK FERENTZ: Oh, no, not at all. I mean, we're with these guys day by day, and you know, the injury gutted him. It gutted all of us. It's just a hard thing because he's put so much into it. He clearly is one of our strong leaders and has been and still is. So yeah, he wants to finish this up. He wants to have a good senior year. That's what he wants, like most players.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Q. </b><b style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Is it a case of what's best for the student in his case because he's probably going to miss the combine?</b><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #ffffff;">KIRK FERENTZ: Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot -- I won't get into it now, maybe in the out-of-season, but there's a lot of details in there that I think would be -- to me a rational person would sit down and listen to it and say, this guy's got a case. But I just watch this stuff; I don't know how they rule on stuff half the time."</span></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jeff Napier" <jnapier111@outlook.com><br><b>To: </b>"Herky" <herky@lists.herky.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, November 24, 2015 4:01:14 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Herky] Ott<br><div><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">In this interview Ott indicates that he going to petition for a redshirt year. This is a big surprise. Everyone said that there was zero chance he was coming back. I am not sure what the chances are he gets one but I think it is pretty good. Defensive End was one area I was concerned about for next year so this would really help. I get the idea that Ott is a pretty strong leader on the team so it would help form that perspective also.<br><style><!--
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