They played a lot better than we did. You can't take anything away from them; their quarterback threw the ball well and made a lot of big plays. We just didn't execute. We didn't even make a game of it. |
They played better and coached better than we did. |
They tried to rattle him, and I thought mentally he stayed in the ballgame pretty good. He just made some errant throws. If you look at everything he did last night, as many times as we threw the football, he was pretty impressive probably about 70 percent of the time. But you're not going to win a lot of games in our conference doing that. |
They'll be a success in whatever they do after this game. |
They're good players, ... but we knew if we got any kind of pressure on them at all they'd throw it up for grabs. |
They've all been consistent. It's hard to zero in on one receiver. It's impossible to do. |
They've had a few ups and downs, been consistent, found a way to win. It's been one of those years for Barry also where he's had to replace a lot of guys and get his football team back to try to compete with what they had last year. So we're two very comparable teams. |
They've had an abundance of talent in the state of Louisiana, and Nick did a good job of keeping it in-state. So I'm envious in some ways, in that [Miles] is walking in to all that talent. But I'm not envious in other ways -- everyone's going to be picking them to win the conference, and no one's picked that right in years. |
This conference tends to build with speed rather than bulk, ... It's very noticeable. If you look at the defensive stats, there are a lot of guys ranked very high. |
This is a group we been working for four to five years, and our experience shows. We've taken the approach of not worrying about who we're playing, but just trying to get better each week. Up to this point, it has been fun to watch them. Now we have two of our toughest games coming up. |
This is a true team sport. We want our players and coaches to understand that. |
This is going to be a very physical spring. You have to do that on the practice field to get it through to our players. But our players understand that. We've been talking about it the last five or six weeks. |
This is not going to be our most experienced year at quarterback, |
This spring, we're going to concentrate in the area of being very physical. You can't talk about it; you can't put it on the blackboard. You have to do it on the practice field. We're going to do that this spring. |
This was a year for us to get a guy like Tim Hawthorne because of the need and the urgency for a guy like him that's got the maturity to come in and play very early. |