Rich Brooks
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Rich Brooks
Richard Llewellyn "Rich" Brooksis a retired American football player and coach. He was the head coach at the University of Oregon from 1977 to 1994, the National Football League's St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 1996, and the University of Kentucky from 2003 to 2009...
situation ugly
It showed me that we weren't going to give in, ... to what was an ugly situation going into halftime.
agreed minor
I don't think he would've agreed to it if he wouldn't come out and play more than a minor role.
coach coaches football
I can coach football. My coaches can coach football,
bunch middle
That's my fault, ... I thought they'd bunch things up in the middle and thought we could get something on the edge. That was my call.
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It's amazing how situations can change. I don't know what Indiana was expecting to have at receiver, but I know they are very talented at that spot now. We thought we would be, but injuries have really hit us hard.
rampant rumors
There have been rampant rumors that I will resign,
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There have been rampant rumors that I will resign. That ain't happening. I am not going to walk out on the players or the program. We are trying to turn this thing around. Some people don't understand what you have to do to turn a program around.
continue good guys skill
We just have some good young skill guys and I think we're going to be able to continue to make some good plays,
cats coaching meet players program school staff week
We meet at least once a week with the CATS program and the coaching staff to communicate with the players to keep up with their school work.
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We still don't know the extent of Mills' injury. We don't think it is serious at this point, but we just don't know for sure. Pryor has had trouble with dehydration and cramps. He's out for the time being until we get the results of quite a battery of tests he will go through to find out why he's cramping.
played
We're a young team, and we played like it,
ability badly care fans game impacts improved judged judging kept people starting struggling team year
We're judged every game we play. A lot of people who do the judging don't care about injuries. They don't care about anything that impacts your ability to go out and perform. I feel very badly for our team and for our fans that we couldn't have kept the nucleus we had starting the year out intact, because I think it was an improved lot. But now we're struggling to show we are improved,
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We're just working different combinations to see which one is going to be the best. You can't tell with linemen until you get pads on and start to run block and pass block and get all the assignments.
players program resign rumors trying turn walk
There are some rumors out there that I'm going to resign at some point, ... Well, that ain't happening, OK? I'm not going to walk out on the players that I recruited and this program that I'm trying to turn around.