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
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.
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.
gang hard
It's hard to gang up one, ... when there are two that are pretty good.
obvious
The first and most obvious thing is just turnovers,
alex decision group haul realize ryan season
By the end of the season, we're going to need all of those guys. That's part of the decision to not redshirt Ryan Bain and Alex -- we realize over the long haul of the season we're going to need a real group effort.
coming concerns cured looks
Any concerns they may have had offensively coming in, it looks like they cured them today.
mistakes needed start tough
Mistakes like that, those are tough to overcome. It wasn't the start we needed at all.
call confidence defense execute huge takes
That was a huge call and a huge play in the game. You know it takes a lot of courage, a lot of confidence in your defense to make that call, and most important to execute it.
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.
block gotten last today
The last two years we've gotten the punt block for six. But today it went the other way.
crutch crutches cry encourage gives guys injuries somebody
You just don't have any choice. You can use it as a crutch or you can try to play through it. We try to encourage our guys not to have crutches in any regard. We're accountable for what we do, and injuries are part of the game. You can cry about it or you can keep playing. We try to keep playing, (and) it gives somebody else an opportunity.
ballgame choices chose dwell forward front guys happened previous
We had two choices after the ballgame in Chicago. We could dwell on what happened the previous game or previous games, or we could look forward to what was in front of us and try to make something of that opportunity. That's what our guys chose to do.
ball good line offensive played run surprised veterans year
We were surprised only in the sense that they haven't run the ball this well all year. It was a good strategy. They executed very well. One year ago, the offensive line was very young, but now they are veterans and played like it.
albert quietly talking
We were talking about that the other day. He has quietly kind of slipped with Albert (Young's) emergence.