On and off, the field of play

One of the many keys to the game... is the relationship between the coaches and the players, their ability to communicate, get them to follow through..."out there without us present" (sound familiar?). Well, if what I witnessed, after we won...the coin toss (you can toss the rest out with the trash talk, if you ask me)...if you call THAT play calling, then my best one liner, which is all that I can muster after that "ball buster!" - a game within the game, as the experts in the booth would say - - which was actually a game that came out in 1975, "...a high-energy, physical-action ball tossing and ticket-redemption arcade game..." The kind of energy that the interviewers apparently saw in this head coach when they brought him northeastern from Salt Lake to Ann Arbor town, only to rub salt in our wounds, as they say, in order to further convey "adding insult to injury" All which adds up, and played right into my hands, as I've been waiting for the perfect, opportune moment, to bring out one of the most misquoted one liners from one of my favorite game films, "...What we've got here, is failure to communicate" - - otherwise known as "The Captain's Speech", from "Cool Hand Luke" (1967) and one of the keys to why it earned a 100% rating from Rotten Tomatoes. I mean what does he not get, about this being a major rivalry game?! 😫