Kirk Ferentz
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"Kirk James Ferentz" is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at The University of Iowa, a position he has held since 1999. 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 Football League (NFL). Ferentz played college football as a linebacker at the University of Connecticut from 1974 to 1976.

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It was a strange feeling on the sideline. It was a strange deal. You mix in a couple three-and-outs and that really made it unusual or weird. It was one of those days.

Like any great player, you can't simulate them in practice.

We faced some adversity, and to respond in a positive way, that's good for everybody. Hopefully we learned something about ourselves.

We never looked comfortable. We never looked in sync. I'm sure some of that was our doing and I know for a fact part of that was there doing.

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

Everybody got distracted by last week's game. Last week's game doesn't mean crap. It's what you do today. It goes both ways on that one.

We've already failed one challenge. Not so much on the scoreboard, but the way we performed that day.

That's just like a bus ride.

They were athletes, and they were leaders and competitors. That's the parallel, ... The other parallel is that none of them could throw, so it made it easy for us to know they weren't quarterbacks. They helped us in the evaluation process.