Ron Zook
Ron Zook
Ronald Andrew Zookis an American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at the University of Florida from 2002 to 2004 and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 2005 to 2011. Zook is a native of Ohio and an alumnus of Miami University, where he played college football. He has worked as an assistant coach in the National Football Leaguewith the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs, and New Orleans Saints. In August 2012, he...
break eventually pounding
Eventually we'll get over this, ... Eventually we'll get a break and get over it. We've just got to keep pounding away.
accelerate close continue defense drill feet improve injuries learn offense separate
That's something that we're going to have to continue to improve on; it's something that we need. It's close contact, usually you don't get many injuries there. It's a drill where the defense has got to learn to separate and the offense has to accelerate their feet and just keep doing it.
confidence forget guys hard proud shot situation
A lot of guys would get into his situation and their confidence would be shot and it would hard to get anything out of them. But he was able to forget it all and I'm proud of him for that.
miss
We'll be fine. We won't miss a beat.
against coach college football game honor privilege
What he's done for the game of college football is unbelievable, ... It is an honor and privilege to coach against him.
again continue improve ready
I just told them we're not ready to play, but then again we don't have to be ready to play. We still got some time, so we've got to continue to improve and get better.
excited life
I just know I'm excited about it. I've been told I can't do things all my life and that's usually when I get excited.
count score until
I didn't know we were down by 20, ... but I told them all along, the score doesn't count until it's over.
caused defense early good mode saw team
We saw a lot of good things early on from the first team offense. When we got into the fast-tempo mode it caused the defense some problems.
bad course game kept near saying shape
We're not near in as bad of shape as I thought we were during the course of the game. I kept saying during the course of the game that we were not getting enough pressure.
consider far home louis start
We consider St. Louis in-state. You start at home and then you go as far as you have to go.
good guys justin sudden
We have guys who can back up and get in there, but one play and all of a sudden you're out of depth. I don't feel as good as I would if we had Justin in there.
emotion emotions free good rein
We didn't play with emotion. We didn't play with the free rein and the emotion you need to be a good team.
people team
You look at that first half, and we were awful, ... We weren't pretty at times, but we're going to be a better team than people think we are.