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[QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 367289, member: 1333"]
Back to the topic, I don't understand why anyone on this board would come away impressed with that pre-game speech.  About the most you can say for it is that he had his team's attention.  Any coach ought to have his team's attention in that situation.  He didn't fire them up and he didn't say anything that should have fired them up.  Watch coaches who are actually good at it and its light years better than Jerry Kill.  Nick Saban, John Gruden, Urban Meyer, heck even Lane Kiffin.  Those are a few names, I would say literally 75% of coaches in D-1 football give way better pre-game speeches.
By contrast, I remember the speech Nick Saban gave to a group of kids that came in for a camp and their parents.  That wasn't even a fire them up speech pre-game.  It was an intro to camp speech about what he expected of the kids in camp so kids and parents would understand.  Search on Youtube for Nick Saban's 2011 Football Camp and you'll see what I mean.  Also commanded respect, but much more inspiring.
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