Mark Farley
Mark Farley
Mark Farleyis an American football coach. He is currently the head coach at the University of Northern Iowa, a position he has held since 2001. Farley played inside linebacker at Northern Iowa from 1983 to 1985. He led the team in tackles in 1984 and 1985 and was named Gateway Football Conference Co-Defensive Player of the Year in 1985. He then became an assistant at Northern Iowa. In 1989 he was named linebackers coach by new head coach Terry Allen...
defend felt football people playing power today
We just felt we had to become a power football team, and if we were going to make that move, today was the day to do it. Getting this on film and playing like this on the field, people are going to have to defend the run.
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It's the same way on defense. They know how we want them to come to camp. There aren't as many questions, and there are no gray areas. We can just line up and try to make our football team better.
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The reality is, we played a very good football team, fell behind, and then came back to our game plan. We know what kind of football team we have now.
best calls evolved football
I think that has been the best thing that's evolved from these two football games. It also allows us, as coaches, to go back and find the calls that best use their talents.
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It could have been a game we had under control in the first quarter had we done the things we need to do. We all know that the downside is we made some turnovers and the upside is the defense played very good football and kept them at bay all day long.
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You've got a great football team that's now a mad football team,
career finally talking timing
We've been talking for years. This was one of those opportunities in his career when the timing was finally right for it to happen. We had a need, and he had an opening.
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What Tate did well was adjusting at the line of scrimmage. He saw what we were rolling into and he took advantage of it.
calm composed eric
Eric is so calm and composed as a quarterback,
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Ryan makes plays because of his intelligence He knows where he belongs ... knows his assignments which helps him play faster.
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There's no front-runner for that position right now. To me, there's some good things that they've all done throughout camp, and I think the difference in who will rise to the second-team quarterback will be decided over the summer.
people
You always think you're going to have a chance. That's the way competitive people are. You get up for a challenge.
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We were looking for great teachers - teachers with great enthusiasm who have a passion to coach. Then, we needed some wisdom, as well. I think we got all of those things with the combination of the three guys we hired.
catching confident
We're catching them as a very confident team.