Rich Rodriguez
Rich Rodriguez
Richard Alan "Rich" Rodriguezis an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Arizona. Rodriguez previously served as the head football coach at Salem University, Glenville State College, West Virginia University, and the University of Michigan. His career college football coaching record stands at 153–104–2. In 2011, Rodriguez worked as an analyst for CBS Sports...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 May 1963
complain playing top
I think that's a little high. We're not playing like a top 10 team. But we're not going to complain about it.
bit great turned
I thought he'd be a great player, and he's turned out to be every bit of that.
ball game nobody passing plays run whether
I think you're going to have to make some plays in the passing game, whether or not the opportunities are there I don't know. But nobody has been able to run the ball on them,
answers found game learn questions second sure
I think you get answers to your questions in every game. We found out a lot of answers in our first game. I'm not sure we found out any the second game. But, in every game you learn more and more.
criticism critics-and-criticism fact heart home league playing predicting took
I think we took to heart some of the criticism of our league and the fact that no one was predicting us to win. Basically, we were playing in their home environment, their home state.
challenge class conference dictates favor four games playing quite short television three time
I think it's quite a challenge for our team, with four weeknight games and three of those on short weeks. I'm not in favor of playing three weeknight conference games on the road, because of the class time we miss, but television dictates most of our schedule.
career cases couple graduates great guy job plenty points short team
I was a little disappointed in that (Big East) rule. We've had plenty of cases on the team now, and in the past, where a guy was a couple points short on a test. Yet he comes here and graduates and has a great career and does a great job representing the program.
backs bonus five fresh legs playing running time
I think it's a big bonus for us to be able to play four, five running backs because having fresh legs and playing two at a time and doing all the things our running backs have to do, they can get pretty gassed.
backup competing keeps last nice proud week year
He's doing a nice job, he's our backup long snapper and he's competing to get better. We've been proud of the way he has worked. He's better now than he was last year and every week he keeps getting better and better.
chance college division graduate junior options
His options are really limited. I know he'd have to go to a junior college and graduate before getting a chance at another Division I school.
calm composed freshman
He's calm and composed out there. It's not like he's a freshman at all.
award hammer
He got our Hammer Award for two big blows.
approach bit chance completed destiny last lessons playing rounds seven teach toe took year
We took the approach that we're playing an 11-round championship fight. Right now we've completed seven rounds and we're on round eight. And we also have some lessons to teach from last year when we had a chance and our destiny in our own hands. We stubbed our toe a little bit at the end.
game helps name players playing team
Playing in a BCS game helps with getting the team name out there. Players are going to go where they think they can excel.