Rich Brooks
Rich Brooks
Richard Llewellyn "Rich" Brooksis a retired American football player and coach. He was the head coach at the University of Oregon from 1977 to 1994, the National Football League's St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 1996, and the University of Kentucky from 2003 to 2009...
bad change move pure
They were some bad calls, pure and simple. You move on. They aren't going to change them.
ability badly care fans game impacts improved judged judging kept people starting struggling team year
We're judged every game we play. A lot of people who do the judging don't care about injuries. They don't care about anything that impacts your ability to go out and perform. I feel very badly for our team and for our fans that we couldn't have kept the nucleus we had starting the year out intact, because I think it was an improved lot. But now we're struggling to show we are improved,
almost bad beyond injury team
We're a team that has been decimated by the injury bug. I've had bad injury years, but this one is almost beyond comprehension.
against bad calls expected plays supposed team underdog underdogs
It isn't conscious, I don't think, in most cases, ... If a team is supposed to win, they're supposed to make plays and the underdog usually is not expected to make plays. Sometimes there are more bad calls that go against underdogs than go against favorites, let's put it that way.
difficult game indiana kicked
Indiana outplayed us, they outcoached us, they kicked our fannies, ... It's a very difficult game to swallow.
defensive field people talk
I know people don't like to talk about defense, but this was a defensive day weather-wise, as well as on the field for us.
knife somebody stuck
It was just like somebody stuck a knife in our stomach. It's a shame.
factor negative plays race
They've got to make plays and not make negative plays. The negative plays are as big a factor in this race as anything. You can not make negative plays.
huge plus star
This is just like getting a star recruit. It is a huge plus for our team.
fans good players season team
The fans need to understand, ... that a lot of the good players we started the season with are not on our team right now and we're going with more inexperienced players.
draw dreams everybody knew next stadium stop three
I'm going to see the draw play in my dreams for the next three weeks, ... Everybody in the stadium knew it was coming, and we still couldn't stop it.
chance close coming finishing gave good hard looking ourselves played plays tired
I'm getting tired of coming close and not finishing the deal. We started out looking like a team, then struggled, stumbled and fumbled and did not look very good at the half. We responded, competed and played hard and made the plays that gave ourselves a chance to win.
guys help influence recruit top
I've had other guys try to influence recruits, but never as demonstratively as Micah. He didn't want to be the only top recruit ... he wanted to get us some help down here.
amazing expecting hit indiana injuries situations spot talented
It's amazing how situations can change. I don't know what Indiana was expecting to have at receiver, but I know they are very talented at that spot now. We thought we would be, but injuries have really hit us hard.