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Loving the game

  • http://arizona.247sports.com/Article/Loving-the-game-66861

    Rich Rodriguez looking for guys who love football, not just like it.

    Editor-In-Chief of Wildcat Sport Report and co-host of the Arizona football and basketball pre and postgame shows on 1290 KCUB.

    BradAllis

  • Other than meeting him at Phoenix Country Club for the introduction night I haven't been around he or the team this year. I know its a bit of a show, but my son and I are really looking forward to the practice at Glendale JC. I hope the team is as enthusiatic as he seems to be.

    rdotrbennett

  • I appreciate the life that RR is infusing into the program.

    He is being direct and sending a message to his team.

    BlkMtn

  • Love the quotes from Rodriguez, but is anyone else concerned that these quotes had to be made a week into Spring Camp?

    National Basketball Recruiting Analyst & Publisher of Wildcat Sports Report

    Gary Randazzo

  • Gary Randazzo said...

    Love the quotes from Rodriguez, but is anyone else concerned that these quotes had to be made a week into Spring Camp?

    but yes i am cncerned even if it was

    i was but hoped that it was actually a little better than it sounded and the rest was a MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH. But yes I am concerned he had to give it!

    PEB13 ●

  • Gary Randazzo said...

    Love the quotes from Rodriguez, but is anyone else concerned that these quotes had to be made a week into Spring Camp?

    I was a little concerned but after thinking about it, I figured it was 95% motivational.

    Chino 28

  • Gary
    Its been a very long time since I was the on the receiver side of that kind of motivation, but I never had a coach that was delighted with my or anyone else's effort this early on. If they were, they didn't let on. Obviously, how ever hard the players try, they need to be motivated to try harder and they need to be motivated both individually and as a team. The only statements that mean anything are behind closed doors to the coaches and the trainers.

    When I coached at the high school level it was the same. I read absolutely nothing into this. I doubt seriously that he is going to be happy at the final spring scrimmage.

    Happy for a coach comes when you win the first game.

    rdotrbennett

  • Coaches traditionally get their shots in early, and light the fires every chance they get to get the guys up for reaching a new level. No matter how good a team was they year before, it can never be good enough...that's just the life of athletics, or else programs grow complacent and stale, and mediocre.

    In our case, we have never been good enough to sit on our laurels, but we have a few times, as in the year after the 12-1 season, when Dick took the whole summer off and expected the nation's best to come knocking at our door-- and they did not.

    Coach Rod is doing the right thing- we are not good enough yet to compete at our "normal" level, much less compete at Pac-12 Championship level or above. And that's where he wants to take us!

    This post was edited by RBob1 on 3/23/2012 at 10:02 AM

    RBob1

    RBob1

  • Good responses to my question, fellas.

    National Basketball Recruiting Analyst & Publisher of Wildcat Sports Report

    Gary Randazzo

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