Rich Brooks Team Quotations

He is behind the other receivers but he can really help this team when he learns everything he needs to know. We are trying to give him an opportunity to see what he can do.

That doesn't mean anything this week. We have a bunch of players on this year's team who have never played against Indiana, so they don't know what has happened previously.

I think they got to see a little bit of what this team can do.

It isn't conscious, I don't think, in most cases, ... If a team is supposed to win, they're supposed to make plays and the underdog usually is not expected to make plays. Sometimes there are more bad calls that go against underdogs than go against favorites, let's put it that way.

I thought we had a pretty good team when we played Louisville, ... but injuries are something we have to deal with, and we're not dealing with it very well.

We haven't played a game yet. It's easy to say that when you haven't played a game, ... Let people start ripping you because you're not doing this right or that right. Then let's see if we have that team chemistry. I believe we will. I think it will be pretty solid. But that's all talk. That doesn't get you in the end zone right now. We've got to go out on the field and prove all of these things.

That was a different football team than this year mentally,

We're a team that has been decimated by the injury bug. I've had bad injury years, but this one is almost beyond comprehension.

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,

The last six years I was there we were a very good football team and since then they have only had one losing season,

The fans need to understand, ... that a lot of the good players we started the season with are not on our team right now and we're going with more inexperienced players.

They were rockin' and rollin', especially late in the fourth quarter, ... They supported us even when it wasn't looking very good for us. I think our whole team understands the importance of what our troops are doing for us right now. It was nice to have them here in the stadium.

The first game we had a chance to win and we rebounded and fought back, but we didn't get any reward (in a loss to Louisville). Then we fought back in our last game (against Idaho State) and won. Now we have even more players sidelined. Now we'll really see how we deal with adversity, because this is a chance to prove we really are a different team this year.