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...
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I think he's going to get bigger and better. He's going to play a lot of football here. If he continues to progress the way he has this spring and in the weight room this winter, there's no reason why he can't be an awfully good player in the Big Ten Conference.
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He hasn't made the strides that I'd like to see in the weight room. That's impossible. He's burning the candle at both ends. It's important that he has a very good summer in the weight room and get a little bit stronger.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You have to get guys in there who make fewer mistakes.
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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.
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Even though it probably went exactly as we thought it would two days ago, until those faxes come across, you never know.
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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.
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We're thinking about it and talking about it. But we're using what we feel like is everybody we have. We have to get the ones who are playing better. Everyone has to play as hard as they can.
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We're thinking about it and talking about it, and we have to get some competition going in the secondary, ... They want to give Travis Williams a look to see if he can compete a little bit. Those guys have talent but they're not playing the way we need back there, so we'll open it up a little.
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We just got worn out a bit, ... They did a good job coming back and we just tried to fend off the onslaught.
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Vince has done everything that I thought he would in terms of coming in, learning our package. I've been very, very happy with the way that's going. We've made great improvement on defense, as we should. We've just got to continue to improve there.
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Vince has done everything I thought he would do in learning our package. He's spent time with the defensive line and linebackers, and I help a lot in the secondary. We've made great improvement on defense, which we should.