I hope he plays. There's nobody who wants to play more than he does, and the truth is, we're not going to know (if he's ready) until he gets out and practices (today). Then we'll see. |
I knew in my heart this team had tremendous motivation. They worked extremely hard going back to the way that season ended a year ago. |
I recommended Bill to Bo as a graduate assistant. Before Bo could make a decision, Bill went to Illinois, and his career took off. |
I saw Gabe make one great play and I thought we did a lot of great things inside. It was on the perimeter where we got hurt more than anything else. |
I think [special-teams coach] Mike DeBord has done a great job. The players are really buying into what we're trying to do. |
I think anytime that you have a performance like that against you, certainly you try to learn some things from it, |
I think because of the fact that both of those men were ADs, as well as the football coach, we didn't play Notre Dame for a long time. |
I think certainly it was maybe the biggest play of our season, but I'm not surprised that Mario is the outstanding football player that he displayed in high school, |
I think certainly the '97 team raised the bar at Michigan. They raised expectations, which were already enormous. But I think the goal of every Michigan team since then is to win the national championship. And I think we all recognize how difficult that is to do. And yet it's certainly a goal worth pursuing. I think we're trying to pursue that every day. |
I think he played as well as we could have expected him to play. He made our Victors Club, which goes to those guys who have excellent performances, and to do that in his first start at the guard, I think he's a very bright guy. |
I think he's a guy that can make you miss. He's a guy that has great vision. He's one of those guys that can hurt you in a lot of different ways. |
I think he's fine, |
I think he's throwing the ball extremely well and I think he has the confidence of being in a lot of big games, the experience that comes with being in tight ball games, being in two-minute situations, being ahead, being behind, all of the things that you need to learn to be able to learn to be able to control the game and lead your team. I think he's done a great job of that. |
I think I made my position clear there, |
I think if you take one play out of the football game, our defense did a very good job, |