I'm very excited. This is a great situation for me. I'm back in Alabama. I'm back in the Gulf South Conference. I'm close to Mississippi where I grew up. It's just a perfect situation. I think the timing is everything. It's so important in things that the timing seems to be excellent to come to West Alabama. |
I've been offered a better job coaching the 0-14 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. |
If this helps us win - and I can't guarantee it will - I think it's the best decision. |
It's very heartbreaking. It's real troublesome ... In remembering back to (Hurricane) Camille in '69 and the damage then, and they say that this is worse ... It's just hard to imagine. |
Mendenhall is a very solid player that gives us a lot of speed. |
More than likely both will play. One's got a lot of experience and has been in these situations, especially going into Clemson. But at the same time, he's not throwing the ball very accurate. The other kid's probably a little bit better moving around. |
Obviously, there was something wrong with our players today. We're a better football team than what you saw. I'm not saying we're a good team, but we're better than that. |
So a passing team definitely gives us more problems. |
So a passing team definitely gives us more problems. It's going to be very difficult because they have so many people who are very skilled at catching the ball and doing something with it. |
This game was scheduled I think eight years ago. I don't think it would be my choice, but a lot of games on our schedule wouldn't be my choice. |
Until Temple has a winning season and has some success there's always going to be a stigma that you can't win here. Things have changed so much that it's really unfair. But it's still going to be there until we win. |
We do have four seniors up front that I think are one of the strengths on our team. |
We had put together some drives. We didn't complete the drives, but we had offensively moved the football. |
We have to see improvement in the kicking game. We have some veteran players kicking and punting the football for us, and they need to be more consistent. Right now, we're not very consistent on field goals or punting, and that's going to be critical for this football team. Even with the snaps this spring, our consistency was not as good as it was in the fall. We have a lot of work to do. |
We have two excellent running backs. Both have game experience and have proven that they can make plays. We have to find a way to utilize them at the same time. Because of that, we will be in more multiple sets. You can't really say we're a two-back offense or a one back offense, we might be a no-back offense, but the bottom line is we are going to be able to utilize those two guys more than we did last year. |