Iowa football: Amani Jones’s role and new assistant Jay Niemann’s recruiting presentation A picture of Chad LeistikowLeistikow Chad Hawk Central Even before the newest assistant coach of the Iowa football team, Jay Niemann, coaches a Hawkeyes game, the hire appears to be a success. Every time Niemann, 58, enters a prospect’s living room, he can
provide a compelling recruiting pitch. In his home state, both of his boys have performed for Kirk Ferentz. “I can enter any house… “… I can look any parent in the eye and say them, ‘I had possibilities for
my sons to go to multiple different programs,'” Niemann said on his Hawk Central radio show debut on Wednesday night. And they decided to visit Iowa.
sent them here because we felt like a family.” For the previous eight years, Jay Niemann has worked as an FBS defensive coordinator. As Iowa’s assistant
defensive line coach, he earns $280,000 annually, which is over $200,000 less than what he supposedly made at Rutgers ($478,000). Ben, Niemann’s eldest
son, started linebacker at Iowa for three years and is currently a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. Nick, his youngest, is a redshirt junior competing for a
starting linebacker spot with the Hawkeyes. The biggest issue was whether Niemann could replicate the kind of in-state recruitment strength that veteran
Reese Morgan had when he was hired on May 1st, thus succeeding him. Though it’s still unclear, Niemann did clarify on Wednesday that his
