Is Farley OK?

[Pant8her]

Sincere question about Farley. I have been listening to the radio interviews for the last couple of years and I am wondering if Farley has an issue with his faculties. In the interviews he sounds distant and somewhat unaware of what transpired during the game. It became painfully transparent following the USD game and this week that he has no real idea about the game. Following the USD Farley babbled a bit about the that the players followed the game plan, and he sort of pushed it that the team failed to execute it well. In the past I have rarely heard Farley blame the players, but this one makes me sad. Usually, he is upbeat about the games and lately he just does not know what game he was at (IMO). I am wondering if anyone else has made similar observations.

Since 1976 (Dome history) Farley is the only coach to have lost five games in a row now twice. The 2013 season was tough because three of those losses were overtime games and the other two losses were by one and ten points. However, this season the games are not even close losing by an average of 29 points make it just sad.

To be honest, this season was a stretch in many ways to start off. That being said, the loss to SDSU was one of the worst defeats in (home) Dome history. So as you can see in the following data this loss ranks it as the 2^nd worst in Dome games (38)…
24-Sep 1983 No. 8 Southern Illinois 9–52 (43)
4-Sep 1976 Northern Michigan L 7–41 (34)
22-Sep 1979 Nebraska–Omaha L 15–39 (24)
9-Oct 1982 Idaho L 13–38 (25)
6-Oct 2018 No. 1 North Dakota State L 31–56 (25)
19-Nov 2016 8 South Dakota State L 24–45 (21)
18-Nov 2023 No. 9 North Dakota State L 27–48 (21)


What say You!

[UNI MadCat]

I’m not going to speak to his faculties but it’s beyond time to make a change. Losing is one thing. But there is no life in this team or any reason for optimism. Long ago we should have moved on and transitioned him into another role if he wanted it - whether as AD or some kind of ambassador. He deserves kudos for what he brought to the program years ago. But that is long gone. Fan apathy has set in. And there is no worse time for it to happen given the changing landscape of college sports. It’s very sad.

I honestly don’t know any reasonable rationale for not making a change at this point.

[QCPanther05]

UNI Athletics has (hopefully) hit rock bottom. I say “hopefully” because I can’t imagine it getting worse. I’m just so disgusted by it anymore. The football program has been absolutely run into the dirt. And I don’t even have basketball to look forward to because you know it’s going to be the same old mediocre ****e. Farley and Jake are just happily collecting their paychecks because nobody has the balls to fire them. This AD is way out of her depth to fix this mess. It’s not good.

[pnthr53]

No he is not ok....should have been gone over a decade ago

[sevelev711]

This AD is way out of her depth to fix this mess. It’s not good.

Look I'm not someone who has that foolish thing called "hope that anything good happens ever," but to be fair to her, she's been here for a few months, and walked into a situation that was mildly in shambles for the previous two administrations. Let's give her some time.

[BCPanther]

Look I'm not someone who has that foolish thing called "hope that anything good happens ever," but to be fair to her, she's been here for a few months, and walked into a situation that was mildly in shambles for the previous two administrations. Let's give her some time.

Right.

I mean, if she was any good at her job she would've fired everyone on her first day and assumed all coaching and administrative positions herself. Obviously a failure./s

[MVCBeat]

UNI Athletics has (hopefully) hit rock bottom. I say “hopefully” because I can’t imagine it getting worse. I’m just so disgusted by it anymore. The football program has been absolutely run into the dirt. And I don’t even have basketball to look forward to because you know it’s going to be the same old mediocre ****e. Farley and Jake are just happily collecting their paychecks because nobody has the balls to fire them. This AD is way out of her depth to fix this mess. It’s not good.

Out of curiosity, who would you hire for the basketball program that would be able to achieve better results than Jake?

[Trapped in California]

Out of curiosity, who would you hire for the basketball program that would be able to achieve better results than Jake?

Could the AD hire someone to achieve the same results in MBB for $500k rather than $1M+? Probably

Better than what has happened for the past 5-8 years - that's her job, to find better coaches.

Now is not soon enough for either FB or MBB.

[run&blade]

Could the AD hire someone to achieve the same results in MBB for $500k rather than $1M+? Probably

Better than what has happened for the past 5-8 years - that's her job, to find better coaches.

Now is not soon enough for either FB or MBB.

1/2 the money and their glory days were not a decade ago.

since UNI got their 4th choice for AD, message board opinions might not be the worst idea.

Farley and dignity equals awful record and record low crowds? Let’s keep it real, if he is back next season it’s because of the buyout.

UNI should not a career job. Win annd invest in facilities and thank them on the next job.

do not compete in salary because what you are left is is where UNI is at. Coaches with money owed to them and zero upside.

[Trapped in California]

Could Franklin start interviewing FB HC now - at least people on the staff (or recently on the staff)?

Possibly name a "HC in waiting" if you find someone you like on the staff?

What would be the +/- of such a plan? An exodus of players (or maybe keeping more because having stability/plan)?

[BCPanther]

Could Franklin start interviewing FB HC now - at least people on the staff (or recently on the staff)?

Possibly name a "HC in waiting" if you find someone you like on the staff?

What would be the +/- of such a plan? An exodus of players (or maybe keeping more because having stability/plan)?

There isn't a candidate on staff. It would be outside.

In today's world, you just assume you're going to lose your roster when you make a change and that cuts both ways. If you do well in the portal, you can turn it pretty quick, if you don't do well it gets ugly. You just have to trust that you've got the right guy.

[MVCBeat]

I just don’t see the basketball program as the failure you all seem to. Especially in today’s era. Looking around the nation, which programs from one bid leagues are achieving what you all seem to think should be the expectation for us?

If Jake went away you’d HAVE to hire someone at half the salary because a large chunk of his salary is privately funded. So your solution is “hire a worse coach for less money to save big donors money”? We’ve won the league two of the last five years. Finished in the top 4 last year. One year was a lost/weird COVID season where our best player didn’t play. And one other year we finished 8th playing an extremely young group due to a number of injuries too. It hasn’t worked out in St. Louis. And that sucks. But only one team out of 12 can win in St. Louis and the other teams are trying too.

If you’re going to judge a coach based solely on what he does one weekend in St. Louis, I think you’ll be continually disappointed.

[BCPanther]

I just don’t see the basketball program as the failure you all seem to. Especially in today’s era. Looking around the nation, which programs from one bid leagues are achieving what you all seem to think should be the expectation for us?

If Jake went away you’d HAVE to hire someone at half the salary because a large chunk of his salary is privately funded. So your solution is “hire a worse coach for less money to save big donors money”? We’ve won the league two of the last five years. Finished in the top 4 last year. One year was a lost/weird COVID season where our best player didn’t play. And one other year we finished 8th playing an extremely young group due to a number of injuries too. It hasn’t worked out in St. Louis. And that sucks. But only one team out of 12 can win in St. Louis and the other teams are trying too.

If you’re going to judge a coach based solely on what he does one weekend in St. Louis, I think you’ll be continually disappointed.

This is exactly right. The program is incredibly healthy, has adjusted well to the portal era and is recruiting at the highest level in program history.

Unless there are systemic national changes, it's going to be a weekend in StL. I continue to favor risking an extra non-con loss or two and playing interesting games rather than loading up on cupcakes to end up in the same spot in March anyway.

[Trapped in California]

Not judging only STL performance. It's just seems that after the meltdown against Texas A&M in NCAAs, Jake lost the "it factor"

[06panther10]

The basketball program is healthy, in a vacuum. In the context of where we were and what has actually happened, we have had zero NCAA appearances and have had 4 losing seasons (also a 16-16 season) in the 8 years since the Texas A&M game, after having zero losing seasons and 4 NCAA appearances the previous 8 seasons before that.

This is regression, by any measure, and is indisputable. And this has come during a period of time where the conference has unquestionably gotten worse, where an established program like UNI could and should have taken advantage.

Bottom line, not good enough. Its just not.