UNI head coach Mark Farley talks about former Bear, Jack Rummells at Media Day

By Matt Chinander  |   August 8, 2014, 6:19 p.m.

West Branch High School 2010 graduate and current starting lineman for the UNI Panthers, Jack Rummells, recently received quite a bit of praise from UNI head coach Mark Farley. At the Panthers' Media Day event earlier this week, Farley had nothing but good things to say about his starting lineman, Jack Rummells. Jack Rummells is as good of offensive lineman as we've had here. I'm telling you, Jack Rummells is from the back yard, West Branch. And when we recruited him out of high school, he was working out in this garage with his dad. Hear more of Coach Farley's comments in the video below: As we previously reported, Rummells has been named to the Sports Network preseason All-America team. Read more about that here. Rummells will be playing against another former Bear, Bo Bower, when the team heads to Iowa City at the end of this month for their season opener against the Iowa Hawkeyes on August 30th.