They did some good things. We were able to play about everybody who had a helmet or shoulder pads today, which is a good thing for morale. |
They have a passion for Duke football that is second to none as well as a knowledge of what it takes to be successful here. Both of these young men have bright futures in coaching, and I feel certain they will have a very positive impact on our program. |
They were beating us up front. |
They were under duress a large part of the time, so it's tough to evaluate. We didn't protect and they didn't have time. I thought Mike threw some good balls, and we had a couple of drops. We have to make those plays. |
We addressed some needs and it's a very diverse group. There were other good players who wanted to come, but we couldn't take them because of where we were at a need basis. |
We certainly signed some numbers there, and we needed to. ?Those were really areas of need. |
We do have to get something going offensively, but it's not any one particular deal. We need to protect the quarterback better, we need to run better routes, we need to throw it better and we need to catch it better. |
We got beat by a better football team. |
We have the highest standard of behavior for our football players at Duke. This was an unfortunate situation and an isolated incident. I will handle it internally. |
We just got beat in every phase of the game today. They are a much better football team than we are. |
We knew that Allison was a big-play guy from all the reports that we had read, and we've got to make plays on the deep end. A couple of times we didn't today, and whenever you don't do that, it costs you. |
We tell 'em to call it close and tight. |
We're committed to playing people because that's going to help us at the end of ballgames and that's going to help us towards the end of the season. Instead of asking a guy the last part of the season who has already played 850 snaps to play 80 more, it makes sense to me that there should be an increase in production when a guy has played 575 to 600 snaps at that point in the year. |
We're going to wait to see what happens. We don't know what's going to happen right there right now. We're going to practice this week and give some guys some turns, some opportunities, and then we'll make an announcement about what we're going to do there a little bit closer to the game. |
We're not deep enough, but we're deeper than we were last year. We've just got to keep addressing depth in recruiting and the development of the players that we have. |