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
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.
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.
areas believe chance felt football full hands maybe run talk trying veteran work
Maybe if we were a more veteran football team, or felt like we had a chance to really run the table, maybe you'd talk about things like that. (But) we're not even close. We have so many areas right now we're trying to work on ... Believe me, we have more than our hands full this week.
college exciting fans field game hard ought tough
It'd probably be hard to find a college game with better linebackers on the field at one time. It ought to be exciting. Tough on the offenses - but it should really be exciting for the fans to watch.
call confidence courage huge plays situation took
It took a lot of courage and confidence to make that call in that situation and they executed it well. They made some huge plays in the game.