Quote:Trav:

1. What, in your own words, is a "trap game"?

2. What, in your own words, is "playing down to your opponent"?

3. You admitted that players are more motivated in rivalry games. What, in your mind, is that motivation used towards?

The terms are media created terms, particularly the term trap game.

 

Rivalry weeks are a little more amped up. But it's both sides. It's not more motivating for one then the other. Your playing guys you played against in high school, sometimes longer. These are games where most of the bigger recruits were recruited by both schools and some bad blood gets created in the process. Kids don't play harder because the team they're playing is better, or worse for that matter. 

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