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INDIANAPOLIS — Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz watched two of his best coaching friends, Bill Belichick and Nick Saban, walk away from football after last season. So, naturally, college football's longest-tenured coach smiles and nods as he reflects on his own potential exit. Ferentz isn't planning on leaving the sport he loves or the school he's become synonymous with any time soon. But he's stayed in touch with Saban and Belichick even since he and Saban were assistants on Belichick's staff with the NFL's Cleveland Browns from 1993-95.
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