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...
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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.
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It's the most unbelievable thing I've ever been around. I hope we've put the injuries past us. We'll have to see if some of these other guys can play.
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I thought we had a pretty good team when we played Louisville, ... but injuries are something we have to deal with, and we're not dealing with it very well.
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The depth is the biggest thing I feel good about. We've got more players to choose from. And while I don't want this to happen, we're in a better position to sustain injuries than we've been in the past.
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Indiana outplayed us, they outcoached us, they kicked our fannies, ... It's a very difficult game to swallow.
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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.
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It was just like somebody stuck a knife in our stomach. It's a shame.
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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.
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This is just like getting a star recruit. It is a huge plus for our team.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The last six years I was there we were a very good football team and since then they have only had one losing season,