We got back to what I call Virginia Tech football. I don't know where we've been here for a while, but personal fouls, penalties, sloppy play, that is not us. We didn't win all these games being like that. |
We had a streak . . . it's not all Florida. We had a lot of soft commitments going on. I thought they were just making a reservation with us and going to look at some other schools. I didn't think that was the way to do it. |
We had some really good play, |
We had talked about moving Duane a year from now, but as we looked at the offensive line we decided to go ahead now, |
We have a football team that is extremely well coached and plays hard. They really took it to Pittsburgh. It wasn't a fluke. |
We have to be able to run it and throw it, |
We have to compete on the field. That's just the facts. That doesn't interfere with all the time we've spent together before. |
We have two good road wins and that means we have most of our games left at Lane Stadium, |
We know exactly what we got up front. We experienced that last year. [N.C. State] has a chance to be very, very good. |
We lost some good ones along the defensive line [from last year's team] and felt like we needed to bring some quality replacements in. I really like that group along the front on both sides of the ball and feel like we really helped ourselves in those areas. |
We made a couple of plays and I really think that game gave us some momentum going down the home stretch. We were a team last year that got better as we went along, and I think that game was very instrumental in doing that. |
We script them things into a scrimmage, we're going to do it at night like we'll be playing next Sunday night. Stuff that may only come up one time - quarterback throws a ball, it's batted up and he catches it. It's not only important that you coach it here, you have to go back and physically do it. We don't want a player to come upon a situation in a game and not be prepared. An extra point, they go into a spread, how you line up for that? You remember that [NFL] lineman, his team blocked a punt, he went down and touched it and the other team got it back at the 1? I would hope that would never happen to us because we go over it. |
We take pride in our program in doing things right . . . just too many things that weren't quite right, ... I hate to see anyone's story here not be successful. You want it to turn out right, you work for it to come out right. Just too many situations. I thought this was what's best for our football team. |
We thought we had a shot at him. But it's tough to get those South Florida guys away from Miami. |
We thought with Marcus against a team like Miami, you get a guy who can really run it and it helps you some at that quarterback position. I think Marcus showed you that a couple of times, with a burst there and a couple big first-down plays. |