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...
glad practicing running
I was just glad to see him practicing and running around out there. I think everyone was.
coaches intact job maybe period record runs says staff stay three until
He's done an unbelievable job with their program. When you go back and you look, up until just maybe two three years ago, his staff was pretty much intact for such a long period of time. To me, that really says a lot. You look at the record and you can see what he's done, but when you see coaches that stay there for a long period of time, I think it says a lot about the way he runs the program.
run
In any league, at any level, you have to be able to run the football.
assault backs good running year
I know there will be an all-out assault on running backs a year from now, and there are some really good running backs in the vicinity.
best guy line looks lost obviously offensive running seen truly
It looks to me like they have just truly reloaded. The offensive line is huge. The running back is huge. They lost their receivers (to graduation), and they've got a guy (Jordan) who's got 11 catches in one game. They'll be obviously the best receivers we've seen to date.
change half might quarters regular running second
The more we can go out and play and compete, the better we will be. We'll have regular 12-minute quarters in the first half and we'll have 12-minute quarters in the second half but probably with a running clock. We might change that to make it more competitive.
backs bit running situation three
It's a little bit like our situation in that all three of our running backs are a little different in the way that they run, the way they attack, the power, that kind of thing, ... When you look at what they've done running the football, I think you've got to feel like they're doing something right.
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.
fill hit year
You had to make sure, particularly this first year here, that we had to fill our needs. For the most part, I think we hit right on.
fewer guys mistakes
You have to get guys in there who make fewer mistakes.
everybody good hard players possibly using
We're using what we feel is everybody we have, ... The good players have to play good, and everyone has to play as hard as they possibly can play.
days exactly though until
Even though it probably went exactly as we thought it would two days ago, until those faxes come across, you never know.
blood cal sharks special teams
Every play on special teams is a nightmare. Cal comes after the punt. They're like sharks smelling blood right now. They will come after us and try to do the same thing.