Chet did a nice job. He had a couple of real nice punts. He'll go into this game as the punter. But we're always going to hold people to a standard as we move through this. |
Dave is an individual I have coached with in the past, and someone who I have the utmost respect for as a coach and as a person. He has a tremendous amount of experience at coaching offense at the Division I level, and has ties to the BIG EAST Conference as a player and a coach. |
He certainly played well in the fall. He's a guy with a lot of ability - a big, strong guy. |
He has great eye-hand coordination. He's a big-body receiver who also played linebacker. He's just a great athlete, with great running ability after the catch. We're very, very excited to get him. |
He plays consistently. We've got to get all of our football team playing like that. |
He's a better kicker than he showed last year. He's had an outstanding spring. He's been very, very consistent throughout the spring. |
I am very excited about this class because we have guys that can contribute now with the young guys that now have experience after one year under their belt. |
I asked him about that. They wanted to make the commitment to play one or the other. I brought up the basketball issue, but there was no interest in doing that. Right now, from an academic point of view, he needs to concentrate on one sport. |
I don't think our confidence was shaken at all, I think we came out in the second half prepared to play. |
I firmly believe if we get that ball in there, it's a football game. I don't know if we were going to win, but it's a football game. ... We weren't the same team in the second half. |
I said all along that if Dustin didn't get things moving we were going to go to Nick, we gave him an opportunity and we did do that the entire second quarter. |
I think he can be a dominant player up the middle for us. |
I think if you're 11-1, if you're the defending national champ, you should play in the [title] game. But that's for you guys to write. |
I think Kennedy has done a wonderful job and he has handled his situation very professionally, and even had some success. I support Kennedy 100 percent, but as to whether he should be hired I shouldn't answer that. That's up to the administration. |
I think the defense had a little bit to do with that. When the ball got out in space, they got there quick. |