illini4everjp
September 14th, 2005, 09:01 AM
http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2005/09/14/sports/1010082.txt
If one could take the current-day comments of University of Illinois coach Ron Zook, step back in time three years, then insert them into the mouth of Cal coach Jeff Tedford, you'd have a mirror image of two college football programs trying to jump-start their futures.
During the nine months Zook has been on the job, he repeatedly has talked about changing the habit of losing into an expectation of winning. He has asked players to believe and to buy in, just as Tedford did during his initial season at Cal.
If one could take the current-day comments of University of Illinois coach Ron Zook, step back in time three years, then insert them into the mouth of Cal coach Jeff Tedford, you'd have a mirror image of two college football programs trying to jump-start their futures.
During the nine months Zook has been on the job, he repeatedly has talked about changing the habit of losing into an expectation of winning. He has asked players to believe and to buy in, just as Tedford did during his initial season at Cal.