Our game up there last year, we really started to see signs that we were getting better and our young kids were playing hard and learning how to play. I know everybody loves the worst-to-first (analogy), but last year was really just an uncharacteristically bad season for us. |
Our only security is our ability to change. |
Particularly when people look at the makeup of our team and some of the things we've been through, with playing more freshmen than anybody in America and having some really potentially, what could have been devastating, injuries. And then to be able to kind of pull it all together and still win the conference is a tremendous achievement for a team that I think most people felt like was probably a year away. |
We feel like if we can finish it off the right way, it will be another phenomenal year. That's the key, being able to put them together - one, two, three years in a row. |
We fell probably one player short. I'll take responsibility for that. Sometimes with timing and the way you set things up.... sometimes you guess wrong. |
We probably are a little bit ahead of where we usually are at this time. |
We were an extremely young football team last year and played some freshmen, and we were hoping that would pay off. But we elected to just not talk a whole lot about last year. |
We're in a learning process on how to deal with this. |
When you sign across the board at every position like we were able to do, you feel like you address your needs pretty well. |
When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect, |
When you think of college football, that's one of the games you think about right off the bat. Kids want to play in it. |
You don't want to get in a mode where you have to rebuild your team that way. |
You look at our classes every year and we've never gotten overly caught up in all of that. But as long as we get guys who fit in our system well and meet the needs that we have on our football team, we'll be pleased with that. |
You start putting these last few classes together, and the quality that's in there, and we feel it has set us up for a pretty good run. |