Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

[MnPantherFan]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

The offensive line has strengths?

[95UNIGRAD]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

I'd like to see us get with the times and do some hurry up/ no huddle. I don't expect them to at this point. But going into the season with a weak offensive line, we should have planned on keeping the other team off balance and catching them before they're ready with some mis direction and short passes. I think that type of offense would have fit well for this team. Don't ask the line to block for a 9 or 7 step drop because clearly they can't. They also can't just line up and blow people off the ball.

That's what's driven me most crazy about our offensive play calling. When you have glaring weaknesses time and again, you have to adjust and call plays (misdirection, an occassional trick, etc.) that keep the defense off balance. You can't just keep beating your head against a brick wall and expect different results. This staff needs to open things up - 3 step drops, bubble screens, an occassional reverse or flea flicker. Your jobs are gonna depend on it, guys. Might as well go down swinging. What do you have to lose?

[Kyle]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

Do you honestly believe people are pissed off because of that that ONE pass? The game was lost before that play, the season was off the rails before this game, and the program has been off since before this season.

This is just a continuation of a 3+ year pattern of failure and THAT is why people are, rightly, pissed. Its a sustained period of mediocrity which would lead any reasonable person to conclude that the coaching staff is not doing a good job and have to be held accountable.

But Farley didn't throw the pass!!!!! Don't you get it?!?!?

[ban basketball]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

So you obviously believe that Doug Schwab has had zero to do with UNI's recruiting successes and performance on the mat, right?

Of course he did, but he won't be SOLELY responsible if the team starts having some lean years.

Big difference, and all that my point has ever been since day one.

You on the bandwagon now too?

[ban basketball]

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But Farley didn't throw the pass!!!!! Don't you get it?!?!?

Is that your lame attempt at trying to save face after getting embarrassed by welcoming a former college football player to the world of college athletics?

[Kyle]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

Ban thinks Todd Lickliter got a raw deal.

[TH1974]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

Ban thinks Todd Lickliter got a raw deal.

It was just a few bad years. He was national coach of the year before that.

[ban basketball]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

Ban thinks Todd Lickliter got a raw deal.

I wouldn't know. I follow college basketball-other than keeping one eye open to see UNI results-about as much as I do pro sports, which is zero.

Strike three.

[UNIpanther99]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

Strike three.

Strike three, turnover on downs?

[ban basketball]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

Strike three, turnover on downs?

Can't get one by you, can I?

[ban basketball]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

Actually, come to think of it, getting rid of Licklifter (or whatever his name is) was supposed to be the big panacea for the Sqwawkers, yet that ticking time bomb that they have now hasn't done a whole lot to improve things either, and he was supposed to be a coaching genius.

Sorry to have to toot my own horn on that one, but, hey, I wasn't the one who brought up Licklifter and how coaching changes translate into automatic success.

[Kyle]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

Actually, come to think of it, getting rid of Licklifter (or whatever his name is) was supposed to be the big panacea for the Sqwawkers, yet that ticking time bomb that they have now hasn't done a whole lot to improve things either, and he was supposed to be a coaching genius.

Sorry to have to toot my own horn on that one, but, hey, I wasn't the one who brought up Licklifter and how coaching changes translate into automatic success.

But you wouldn't know. You don't follow college basketball.

[ban basketball]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

But you wouldn't know. You don't follow college basketball.

You're right, but am I wrong?

[TH1974]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

I wouldn't know. I follow college basketball-other than keeping one eye open to see UNI results-about as much as I do pro sports, which is zero.

Strike three.

It's just a few strikes. Why does it have to be an out?

[Blue42]

Re: Should Mark Farley be fired after the season?

That's what's driven me most crazy about our offensive play calling. When you have glaring weaknesses time and again, you have to adjust and call plays (misdirection, an occassional trick, etc.) that keep the defense off balance. You can't just keep beating your head against a brick wall and expect different results. This staff needs to open things up - 3 step drops, bubble screens, an occassional reverse or flea flicker. Your jobs are gonna depend on it, guys. Might as well go down swinging. What do you have to lose?

I think this is a great point. By the time you're 6 or 7 games into the season, you should know who you are and who you are not.

You need to develop an identity as an offense and play to your strengths.

It's called adaptability. If the plan isn't working...you have to adjust.

And if you're a professional OC, you should have ideas on what might work with the strengths you do have. If you've only got one scheme...find a gig working Friday nights in class 2A high school ball.

I have been frustrated that there's seems to be a stubbornness in UNI's approach to scheme that says "we're gonna do what we do, and we'll do it better than you and beat you". I'm not sure you can get away with that anymore in the MVFC. Maybe NDSU can. We obviously can't.