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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This is just like getting a star recruit. It is a huge plus for our team.
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At Oregon, we were on the quarter system and didn't start school until September, so we'd play three games before school started. One year, I lost a game at Ohio State and went back to two-a-days the next week. You can't do that anymore. You used to be able to outwork somebody in preparing for a game, but now everybody's limited to the same amount of time.
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The momentum will really get going when we start winning games. I think we've turned the corner, but we've got to get to the straightaway and accelerate.
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Nobody expected Braxton Kelley to come in here and start and do all of those things, now people look at Micah Johnson and expect him to come in and start and do all of those things. I don't think that's fair. Is it possible? Yeah, it's possible. Is it probable? It's not real likely he'll be a star as a freshman. Certainly he'll be a guy that will come in and have an impact on our program.
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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,
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We're just working different combinations to see which one is going to be the best. You can't tell with linemen until you get pads on and start to run block and pass block and get all the assignments.
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We haven't played a game yet. It's easy to say that when you haven't played a game, ... Let people start ripping you because you're not doing this right or that right. Then let's see if we have that team chemistry. I believe we will. I think it will be pretty solid. But that's all talk. That doesn't get you in the end zone right now. We've got to go out on the field and prove all of these things.
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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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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.