Sounds like he is from the Charlie McBride mold. From Jon Miller at HawkeyeNation.com.
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From the second article on recruiting.
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I only know Coach Kaczenski based upon the three or four time I have interviewed him at Iowa football media days since he was hired in 2007 to coach Iowa’s defensive line unit, having been promoted from his position as a Graduate Assistant at Iowa during the 2005 & 2006 seasons. That basically means that I don’t know Kaczenski that well at all and will not pretend that I do. He replaced Ron Aiken, who left the program in February of 2007 to join the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals staff.
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From the second article on recruiting.
Iowa has placed 20 defensive linemen in the NFL under Kirk Ferentz and every senior starter (seven) under DL Coach Rick Kaczenski has gone on to the NFL. Iowa was the only school to have three of its defensive linemen drafted in the 2011 draft. Last year’s senior class (Clayborn, Klug, Ballard) were a part of four defenses whose average NCAA scoring defense ranking was 9.25. Yes, I wrote average ranking. They were 7th in 2010, 10th in 2009, 8th in 2008 and 12th in 2007. That 2007 number is not a misprint, either.
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