Rick Clausen
Rick Clausen
Richard James Clausenis the current offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Calabasas High School. He is also a former American football player who played college football for Louisiana State University and University of Tennessee. During his two years at LSUhe played in three games, starting the 2002 game against Ole Miss. At the end of the 2002 season, he transferred to Tennessee, where he walked on to the football team as a backup quarterback, sitting out the 2003 season under the NCAA...
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He gave 22 years of his life to this university, ... We haven't gone out and done what we needed to do as a football team.
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That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.
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I'm going to get a lot of treatment this week, as many times as possible, to get the soreness out.
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I've put in the work and I thought I had a good preseason,
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He said just approach it like any other game. He said you just have to watch out for getting too tight. He said if people get nervous, that's when they get distracted and kind of let the game consume them. He said just be loose and go out there and play. It's a great college football atmosphere.
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Lack of execution was the biggest thing. Their defense was good, but we stopped ourselves a lot. We shot ourselves in the foot,
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It was a tough week for myself, ... I called home a few times; I really didn't want to be here.
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Wherever the quarterback derby or whatever you call it goes from here it doesn't matter. I'm just glad that we won. Basically, the questions about the whole quarterback thing, I'd like them to stop.
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We knew it was going to be a fight and we knew what we had to do,
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We're playing for everybody in the Tennessee family. If the fans bail on us now, then the fans are not true Tennessee football fans. You can't win every single football game, but we do expect to. The fans expect to, and those are the expectations you deal with when you come to a school such as Tennessee.
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We know it could be a special year,
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We beat ourselves tonight. That's it. That's all it boils down to. You can't make mistakes and beat a team like Alabama.
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Whatever happened off the field is not going to help us on Saturday. It's not going to give us three points on the board before the game starts.
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When things are clicking, we can be good, ... Eventually things will start clicking. Right now things haven't been and it's unfortunate because we know what's at stake and we can win football games.