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...
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And now they get to go home, and I think they're a different team at home.
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You've got a great football team that's now a mad football team,
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It will be interesting how they pan out. But the guys we have are the guys we have. They'd better start showing up here sooner or later because it is their time now, and they are junior-type players for us.
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The key is to keep those two guys healthy. They need to get a lot of reps. This is an important spring for them. We need to find out what kind of runners they are so we can make the offense work for them.
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That's a huge part of having success over time,
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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.
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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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We may spend a lot of time working the second quarterback with the first group. I think we know what Eric is.
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We're down in numbers at receiver and we have so many new guys coming in, that's where we'll have to find out a lot more during the summer and two-a-day camp.
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We're going to have to play great defense. They could score anytime.
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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.
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The real story on Ryan is how he has overcame his setbacks. Because when you climb to the top - become a starter - and an injury occurs that keeps you out for a long time, you have to start back at the bottom rung. Ryan fought his way back up.
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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.
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We will have coaches come and go. The better coaches we bring in, the more guys will end up leaving. But if we can keep the core and manage the system, I think the players can get better each spring and carry it over to the fall, and they can do it for all five years they are here.