I thought the play should have been blown dead. The guy was stopped for about five seconds. |
I thought they did a bad job of talking it through, |
I toiled over whether to use them, |
I told everyone in this class that this was going to be the class that started Notre Dame back to the top. That doesn't mean we don't have a chance to compete this year or next year. I'm talking about perennially being at the top. |
I told our offensive guys you must not be worth a crap. I used that pretty much all week. Now here, I've basically used the same thing. Except now that I'm at Notre Dame, I don't say crap. I say you must not be worth a darn. But I try to play to that. |
I told the guys instead of whining about the coaching change, go look in the mirror and realize you went 5-7 and 6-6. If you want to get rid of me just go 5-7 and 6-6 the next two years and get another coach in here. |
I told them if you want to go out on the town, go ahead, but I can tell you what the Patriots were doing last year. This is the way professionals at the top of the game handle it. I think it gave our players a much greater awareness, both mentally and physically, the way to go. This is the only way I know how to prepare, and that's just the way I'll do it. |
I told them you don't get any medals for trying. I'm never content when you end up losing. |
I trust Bill Lewis and his teaching, his leadership and the way he handles the players. The players have a lot of trust in Bill Lewis. |
I want him to kind of anticipate what I'm going to do depending on how things go. |
I wanted to take the crowd out of the game. This was a no-huddle offense, but it was not a hurry-up offense. They're two different things. I just wanted to take the noise out of the game. |
I wanted to take the crowd out of the game. This was a no-huddle offense, but this was not a hurry-up offense. They're two different things. This was so that I didn't have to have guys not hear the play in the huddle. It was just so that we could take the noise out of the game. |
I was a little worried that, if we won the game, I'd become the story, ... I would have liked to find that out, now. |
I was already thinking of them in the last few minutes. |
I was constantly hearing this game was the big match-up between the two former NFL coaches Weis versus Wannstedt who both returned to lead their old schools. I felt that took away from the real meaning of the game, which took place between the players on the field, not between Dave and myself. |