Fire Farley

[BCPanther]

Um, R&B is exactly right.

He'll be proven even more right when the crowd for Hampton doesn't crack 10k.

[SteinPizza]

Montana was not a bad team, give them some credit. UNI had horrible rushing numbers. Bad teams don’t play that type of run defense.

[panthergirl123]

My wish is for Farley to retire at end of season and make Paup as the next coach of the UNI Panthers. However, don't see that happening though.

[BCPanther]

Hardest of hard passes on Paup. He's in his mid 50s, has way too much Farley on him and couldn't co-exist with a young energetic staff.

Go outside and find the next young up and comer.

[UNIAlum95]

The crowd for Hampton will be ~12K even with two losses because it is the first game and it will be tailgating weather.

The most frustrating thing is that we looked completely unprepared in that first half. On the other hand, we actually made a change at QB during the game that was not driven by an injury. That's different. At least they were willing to do a reset.

The million dollar question is what does that do to Dunne's confidence going forward and is he really the guy to lead the team. Not a great start to the season.

[Neighbor]

Listening to OPR yesterday and recording of Farley post game comments. I heard Farley say that they din't make ANY adjustments at halftime. More specifically no defensive adjustments at halftime. Are you serious MF? We pay you good money to coach a team and you make no changes to put your team in a more likelihood to win the game? Those are the things that get people fired.

[DomeIsHome]

Listening to OPR yesterday and recording of Farley post game comments. I heard Farley say that they din't make ANY adjustments at halftime. More specifically no defensive adjustments at halftime. Are you serious MF? We pay you good money to coach a team and you make no changes to put your team in a more likelihood to win the game? Those are the things that get people fired.

I mean, the defense did it's job in the second half, sooo maybe it worked?

[Blue42]

Montana had 75 yards and 0 points in 2nd half.

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[JCPanthers]

Hardest of hard passes on Paup. He's in his mid 50s, has way too much Farley on him and couldn't co-exist with a young energetic staff.

Go outside and find the next young up and comer.

My first phone call would be to Matt Entz, Def Coordinator from NDSU. Coached at UNI and grew up in Waterloo.

[BCPanther]

My first phone call would be to Matt Entz, Def Coordinator from NDSU. Coached at UNI and grew up in Waterloo.

This guy gets it...

[clenz]

I don't care if they come back and win this game. I don't care if they knock off Iowa!...Well that's not true, I'd be over the moon if they did. But regardless, it's the same thing every season. Every. Single. Season. I'm done. I'm out. Here's my guess for this season: It's gonna be incredibly middling, win a game we shouldn't, lose a game we shouldn't, sneak into the playoffs because we get that hot, hot, MVC benefit of the doubt, and then get bounced in the second round. Finish 7-5, 8-6 with playoffs, get excited for next year because "look at what we return," have decently high expectations, and do it aaaaallllllllllll again. I'm sick of it.

I've said this for years - it's sadly nice to see people coming around to "my side" rather than calling me overly negative at all times.

We're out of people to blame for the year to year to year to year same issues. In the past we've blamed staff turn over, poor assistants, and any number of things but the issues are always the same.

Unprepared. Unwilling to make adjustments. Players disengaged.

The one single constant in all of those years? Farley.

I've got nothing to add that I haven't on this thread - or dozens of others - over the last few years. Anything I could say is just rehashing old takes.


I like Farley. I've never had a bad interaction with him. I think he embodies everything UNI football is. I also think it might be time for a new voice at the head of the program.

Some of you may know I have a a bunch of NDSU/SDSU friends. Every year I go to Fargo for a game and to get together with them. Every year I'm told that UNI is the single most talented team right there with NDSU but no one can figure out why it doesn't actually ever make a difference. It's interesting to get an outsider look that isn't shrouded in message board bravado. There's a ton of respect for UNI - just not Farley. Some of that is them having this idea of what he is, and always being shocked when I tell them he isn't the devil incarnate like they want to believe. It's just in game stuff that they see the same stuff we do.

Last year I was out with a former NDSU football player - who backed up/agreed with literally every point I would make. Many times he would make the point before I did. He could put together a UNI game plan almost faster than I could. It was pretty telling.

[Blue42]

I always thought when UNI was starting Bailey at QB...that the opponents' defensive staff had to watch a couple hours of UNI game tape and ask each other..."is that it? Really?"

"Boys...lets take a couple hours to draw up a game plan and hit the golf course."

[SoccerDobber]

I've said this for years - it's sadly nice to see people coming around to "my side" rather than calling me overly negative at all times.

We're out of people to blame for the year to year to year to year same issues. In the past we've blamed staff turn over, poor assistants, and any number of things but the issues are always the same.

Unprepared. Unwilling to make adjustments. Players disengaged.

The one single constant in all of those years? Farley.

I've got nothing to add that I haven't on this thread - or dozens of others - over the last few years. Anything I could say is just rehashing old takes.


I like Farley. I've never had a bad interaction with him. I think he embodies everything UNI football is. I also think it might be time for a new voice at the head of the program.

Some of you may know I have a a bunch of NDSU/SDSU friends. Every year I go to Fargo for a game and to get together with them. Every year I'm told that UNI is the single most talented team right there with NDSU but no one can figure out why it doesn't actually ever make a difference. It's interesting to get an outsider look that isn't shrouded in message board bravado. There's a ton of respect for UNI - just not Farley. Some of that is them having this idea of what he is, and always being shocked when I tell them he isn't the devil incarnate like they want to believe. It's just in game stuff that they see the same stuff we do.

Last year I was out with a former NDSU football player - who backed up/agreed with literally every point I would make. Many times he would make the point before I did. He could put together a UNI game plan almost faster than I could. It was pretty telling.

I've felt the same way as you for several years now too. I hear from fans outside ours all the time about how we're in the Top 5 talent wise every season but look where it gets us. Still haven't figured out how a team with DJ, Xavier Williams, Dorleant, Hall and crew lost 5 games in one season......but then I remember: Farley.

[7YrsOfCollegeDownTheDrain]

2001	Northern Iowa	10–3	6–1	1st	L I-AA Playoffs Semifinal		4
2002	Northern Iowa	5–6	2–5	T–6th
2003	Northern Iowa	10–3	6–1	T–1st	L I-AA Playoffs Quarterfinal		5
2004	Northern Iowa	7–4	5–2	3rd			25
2005	Northern Iowa	11–4	5–2	T–1st	L I-AA National Championship		2
2006	Northern Iowa	7–4	5–2	T–2nd			17
2007	Northern Iowa	12–1	6–0	1st	L FCS Playoffs Quarterfinal	5	4
2008	Northern Iowa	12–3	7–1	T–1st	L FCS Playoffs Semifinal	4	4
2009	Northern Iowa	7–4	5–3	T–3rd		18	18
2010	Northern Iowa	7–5	6–2	1st	L FCS Playoffs First Round	18	19
2011	Northern Iowa	10–3	7–1	T–1st	L FCS Playoffs Quarterfinal	5	6
2012	Northern Iowa	5–6	4–4	T–6th
2013	Northern Iowa	7–5	3–5	T–7th
2014	Northern Iowa	9–5	6–2	3rd	L FCS Playoffs Second Round	10	10
2015	Northern Iowa	9–5	5–3	T–3rd	L FCS Playoffs Quarterfinal	8	6
2016	Northern Iowa	5–6	4–4	T–4th
2017	Northern Iowa	8–5	6–2	T–2nd	L FCS Playoffs Second Round

[7YrsOfCollegeDownTheDrain]

sorry this is two posts...what changed between 2011 and 2012? did the game change and leave Coach Farley behind? Did our schedule get more challenging? did we make recruiting or on field personnel mistakes? injury problems...or is it some of all of those things? I don't think any of us had any real complaints until 2012...and even then our problems are problems a lot of programs would love to have. We win a lot...but we expect to win a lot more.