Ron Zook
Ron Zook
Ronald Andrew Zookis an American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at the University of Florida from 2002 to 2004 and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 2005 to 2011. Zook is a native of Ohio and an alumnus of Miami University, where he played college football. He has worked as an assistant coach in the National Football Leaguewith the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs, and New Orleans Saints. In August 2012, he...
plays seen year
I've seen more big plays this year than ever.
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I've said this all along, but the thing Tim has continued to do is that he takes care of the football,
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Vince has done everything that I thought he would in terms of coming in, learning our package. I've been very, very happy with the way that's going. We've made great improvement on defense, as we should. We've just got to continue to improve there.
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Vince has done everything I thought he would do in learning our package. He's spent time with the defensive line and linebackers, and I help a lot in the secondary. We've made great improvement on defense, which we should.
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A lot of guys would get into his situation and their confidence would be shot and it would hard to get anything out of them. But he was able to forget it all and I'm proud of him for that.
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There were some interesting moments, but as I told my wife at 5:15 this morning, if we're not worried we're not recruiting the right guys. But it went exactly as we thought, and that doesn't happen. That might be the most surprising thing.
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You start at home. You start in Champaign-Urbana and go as far as you have to go.
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You normally don't have two blunders like that on special teams and win a game. Our thing was we're not going to lose a game because of special teams. That's a great lesson to be learned.
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A year ago, I didn't know exactly where we were. I don't know that I know exactly where we are now. I do know we are improved from the fall and that the amount of work we were able to get done this spring was two-fold from last spring.
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A specialist worked with him and we feel very good about him,
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That's why he's a heck of a quarterback. He can scramble and make things happen. He may be the difference why they got the points and we didn't.
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The way we handle adversity is going to determine what kind of team we are. I told them last night that this is our first true test of adversity and how we bounce back, how we handle it, and how we compete against a good Iowa football team will determine what kind of football team we are, and where we are at.
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There are two ways to change attitudes. You get new attitudes, and you continue to pound on the ones here.
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Our players should realize we can compete with a team that is ranked 15th in the country,