Kirk Ferentz
Kirk Ferentz
Kirk James Ferentzis an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the University of Iowa, a position he has held since 1999, and is a four-timeBig Ten Coach of the Year, more than any other current coach in the Big Ten. From 1990 to 1992, Ferentz was the head football coach at the University of Maine. He has also served as an assistant coach with the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens of the National...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 August 1955
amazing basically last running year
What he did last year was amazing when we basically had no running attack,
best hits
He hits it hard. That's the best thing he does.
embodies great model monday role saturday
He embodies what we like to be about. You know every Saturday what you're going to get from him, or every Monday or every Tuesday. ... He's a great role model for everybody.
looked
He looked a lot onside to me. But I'm biased.
looked
I'm a little biased. It looked a lot onside to me.
coming football knew
We did a lot of things, especially in the first half, that were pretty uncharacteristic of our football team. We knew coming in that we couldn't make a lot of mistakes, but we did.
challenge guys hero position sure thinking
Now the big challenge probably is to make sure he doesn't feel like he has to do too much, just has to play his position but doesn't have to be the hero every play or every game. We don't want any of our guys thinking that.
mistakes needed start tough
Mistakes like that, those are tough to overcome. It wasn't the start we needed at all.
assuming carried dictionary field people potential season takes
I've never come into any season assuming anything. I know a lot of people got carried away, perhaps, about our potential. But potential is potential. You can look it up in the dictionary (and see) what it means. What we do on the field is what counts, and it takes all 11 guys. We're not there yet.
approach attitude consistent lose realizing week whether win work
To me, it's all about performance. It's about how you do things on a day-to-day basis. The attitude you take, the approach you take, being consistent and realizing that whether you win one week or lose the next, if you're doing things right over the long haul, things are going to work out.
best build football game played playing
They played their best football at the end of the season. If you're playing better at the end of the season, that's something you can build on. They're going to come in here ... and it can be a one game season.
outfit plays several tough
There were so many plays ... where we really made it tough on ourselves. We're the kind of outfit that can't make a costly error, or too many of them. When you have several of them it kind of compounds the problem.
becomes everybody games guys picture playing position role strengths weaknesses works
You see guys playing in games and the picture becomes a little more clear. Plus, everybody has a little different role in the backfield and each of the guys we have has some different strengths and weaknesses so we'll try to get them in a position that works for them.
ball gave last needed pass protection security year
Ball security and pass protection -- two things we really needed last year -- he gave us.