“We all just looked at each other kind of confused, then laughed. “He used to do that on a Tuesday night when we’d go down to U.I.C. and there would be 30 people who had brought a fan bus down to Chicago.”If some of it seems engineered, Pearl will not argue. And he will rely on it again on Saturday, when he has told his players to act as if they have been here before, even thought they have not. “I never felt like I had all the answers, but I want to give my guys confidence,” Pearl said.

Source: New York Times April 06, 2019 06:00 UTC