To be honest, Mack deserves to be up here. I guess at 79 years of age, it was my last shot. But seriously, Mack is a friend and I congratulate him on a great year. |
To be honest, the media has not been a factor in my lifestyle or my coaching interest or how I motivate, |
To me, I'm excited about the game... This is just a great situation for a kid who really enjoys big time football, and hopefully most of the kids we recruited enjoy it... I'm excited, and I would suppose our kids are excited. Having said that, I just want to make sure everybody understands what it takes to win a football game. Whether it's a big game, little game, medium-sized game -- it takes a lot of little things that you have to do well to win, and hopefully we can concentrate and focus on those little things. |
Tony is a very fine back. He's not as flashy as some other people but he gets tough yards. |
Two things create fumbles: lack of courage and the other is lack of concentration, ... In our case, it's lack of concentration. I'm sure it's lack of concentration. |
Until you can get eight guys out of the box with your passing game, ... it's going to be very difficult for the offensive line to produce the kind of running game that you'd like. |
We are in the business of trying to help kids grow up, ... E.Z. has never been a bad kid. He has never done anything malicious to hurt somebody or anything like that. You kept hoping that he would get himself straightened out with the couple little problems he had and I was glad that everything worked out and he could get back in it and do it because he is going to be a fine person. |
We are tired. We have to be careful we are not tired. If that is what you are leading into, yeah, I think we better be careful and be careful of what we do in practice. It is still going to come down to whether you can suck it up against some really good people and find out how good you are. |
We came close to being an undefeated football team. |
We debated last year whether to move him to offense because we were struggling at receiver. We had staff meetings after the season and Butler came up as a guy that I probably should not have held out. |
We did a terrible job. ... I won't mention names, but somebody thought it wasn't important. As a result, when we had the chance to put the game away, we didn't put it away. |
We didn't get the (defensive) lineup we thought we were going to get. It's a good thing that (Kelly) put it through, because he had to kick it. |
We didn't get the lineup we liked. Michael (Robinson) didn't like it. |
We got a little sloppy. |
We got some great ideas. It was a big help to us, it really was. |