To me, I am most critical that we were not tough and physical. It's something we have always done. For whatever reason we didn't do that to the ability we're capable of, and that's my fault, along with my staff. |
To me, it'd be way too premature right now for that to happen. That's something that will be talked about and discussed, |
To me, you look at both of those games, the turnovers are the biggest issue, and the turnovers lead to all the other problems. |
Together, both quarterbacks are throwing for about 250 yards per game and completing about 70 percent of their passes. That's pretty strong for a couple of guys who don't have a lot of experience. |
Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced. |
UCLA has made improvements, and talent-wise they have always been good. They continue to have sound schemes and are disciplined. |
Until we can be responsible with the ball, it's impossible to win. |
Watching it from the sideline and watching it again [on film], we just got whipped. We're not very tough. They played tougher, harder and better than we did. And that's it. |
Watching the TCU game and critiquing it Sunday) on tape, we just weren't very physical up front. TCU just outplayed and outcoached us. |
We (coaches) believe that Rhett has played well enough and is close enough that we do intend to get him snaps early in games as well as late in games. |
We are all happy for Darrell and his family. He feels the NFL is the direction he wants to go and we are supportive of him reaching his goals. We are all appreciative of the work he did here in coaching our receivers. He developed a great number of excellent players, and as also a strong recruiter. |
We came out of spring believing that they each had a scrimmage or two that they were good at and one or two that they made some mistakes at. Each of them did that and in our mind there was not a separation going into (Thursday's) practice. I feel it's unfortunate that so many of you in the media have ranked them and have put them in place so that players have to hear that the entire summer. It's really not fair. |
We didn't push it. I'm not going to detail it for you. |
We don't expect Travis to play. He hasn't progressed to the point to where he is effective or can be at full speed. A receiver not at full speed makes it pretty tough. |
We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there. |