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...
understanding
The most important thing is understanding your role,
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As long as we put six points on the board, I couldn't care less. A lot of people are talking about the big plays and things like that, but we haven't had many to this point. So in essence that means we're due.
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That's when it really kind of hit me.
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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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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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I just wanted to say, 'Thanks for all the good times, thanks for harping on me and writing articles like they did while I was there saying I wasn't good enough to play there,' ... It was just to go and show them I don't care if they like me or not anymore.
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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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The louder it is, the better it is. That's the way I look at it, just because there's nothing better than going to another person's stadium and trying to silence the crowd.
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It hit me once I was talking to my mom (on the phone), because I walked out onto the field after the game to talk to my parents where it was kind of quiet,
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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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It shows he's a man. I think that's the biggest thing. If you do something wrong, you usually say you did something wrong. He did that. It's basically water under the bridge now. We're just trying to beat Ole Miss now.
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It's been a roller coaster. That's the best way to describe it,
treatment
I'm going to get a lot of treatment this week, as many times as possible, to get the soreness out.