Rich Brooks
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...
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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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Make no mistake about it -- it's a very serious competition and a close one.
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The culmination is to get them on the field. Like I know how hard Will Fidler has worked all winter. I was just excited to see him because I had never really been on the field to see him when he threw the football. I've seen him on film. I've seen game tapes, and all that stuff. To see him out here, that part is really exciting.
obviously people playing touches
His touches will go up if we are able to get more snaps, ... He obviously is a playmaker. People we're playing know that as well.
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It has been explained to me on numerous occasions from the league office that they review every play, ... They were real slow in reviewing that one, obviously, or reviewed it poorly.
decisions football life wants
He's got to make some decisions about his life about how much he wants to put into football and getting an education.
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Hayden Lane has played some good games for us. We are not giving up on him. We need better production, particularly from the right tackle.
situation ugly
It showed me that we weren't going to give in, ... to what was an ugly situation going into halftime.
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It's great to have Aaron back in school. During his absence he's gained strength and weight (now weighs 298 pounds). He will bring intense competition to the left tackle position during spring practice.
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It was just like somebody stuck a knife in our stomach. It's a shame.
sliding standing year
There's no way we could have (practiced) on that a year ago, ... We'd have been sliding and standing in water.
rampant rumors
There have been rampant rumors that I will resign,
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.