Danny Rocco
Danny Rocco
Daniel Christopher Rocco is the current head coach of the Richmond Spiders college football team representing the University of Richmond and a former assistant coach of the New York Jets of the NFL. Rocco has over 25 years of professional and collegiate coaching experience. Rocco earned his Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communications from Wake Forest in 1984. He then added an Education and Counseling Master's Degree from Wake Forest in 1987...
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These kids had no confidence. They had very little self-esteem. We just wanted to give ourselves a chance early on, to give ourselves some confidence.
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Butch has come to me and said Rashad is really happy. That's what it's all about right there.
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(They) all have a very, very strong commitment to this university and have a strong commitment to this program.
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They're listening and learning and they're eager. It's kind of neat to see.
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He can play center or guard. We'll be doing some pull schemes in our offense, so it's important that our guards can run. It's also important that your center has good feet to slip the nose guard and get to the second level and block the linebackers. There are some things with the guard and center where power and size aren't as important as speed and athleticism.
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I'm really excited about what we were able to accomplish here.
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I've certainly spent a lot of time thinking about it. We want to create some formations where they both can be in the game and have the opportunity to both carry the ball.
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I wanted to put a schedule together that would give us the best chance to compete in this conference and try to make a run at the conference championship. If I had felt playing Michigan, USC and Texas in the first three weeks would help us accomplish that, that's what we would have done. Every decision that was made was with that in mind. Is this something that can help us? Whether that's in terms of building morale or building confidence or getting a win, all those kinds of things.
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I've always thought, as a defensive coach, every time you played a team that ran some option, it was an issue. Whether it's three plays a game, five plays a game, eight plays a game, the thought that the option is there is something that forces the defense to be very disciplined and forces them to spend a lot of their preparation time in defending it.