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...
changed course game pleased
I was pleased with the game. Initially, we were going to let the quarterbacks go live and see what they could do. Had we done that, I think it would have changed the course of the game.
fall game great group inches season time
It's disappointing, of course, but at the same time we've had a great season with a great group of players. It's a game of inches, and in this one we didn't have the inches fall in our direction.
came fell football game good played reality team
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.
bay control defense downside football game good kept played quarter upside
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.
game national playing priceless
Playing in the national championship game is priceless in many ways.
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.
adjusting advantage line rolling saw took
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,
belongs helps intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals knows plays ryan
Ryan makes plays because of his intelligence He knows where he belongs ... knows his assignments which helps him play faster.
decided difference good position rise throughout
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.
enthusiasm great guys looking needed passion teachers three
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.
compete defensive secondary
We need to make that defensive secondary better, we need to find some linebackers, and we need to compete and make those defensive linemen tougher.