[After 5-6 and a bowl-less 2004, it’s time the Hogs get it done, Baker said. He likes Osceola and all, but doesn’t want to spend the entire Christmas holidays there.] When the bowl games are on, ... and you are home watching them play, it makes you come together as a team when you get back. It makes everyone come together so you are not sitting at home watching other teams play bowl week. I really do think we’ll get back to a bowl game because from the start of summer workouts everybody has been pushing each other saying, ‘ We can’t go 5-6. ’ |
[All need Baker to help them. And not just catching the deep one. They need him running the medium range routes that maybe he didn’t consistently run properly the past two years and read the coverages and concentrate to catch the little passes in addition to the big ones.] I want to be an all-around receiver, ... Deep balls come, but I want to catch them all. The past couple of years I’ve been behind a couple of receivers. Now I’m one of the oldest receivers, so I look to be more ready. |
[Now he’s 6-1, 200 and still fast and spent the summer working out in Fayetteville trying to be Mr. Consistency.] I was pretty much here the whole time, ... It went pretty good. |
[Of course the Hogs will miss Jones, the all-time rushing SEC quarterback, but Baker likes what he sees from Johnson, the sophomore No. 1 as preseason opened, and contending freshmen Alex Mortensen and Cole Barthel.] Robert, Cole and Alex, ... they can deliver the ball so it’s not a big difference. Matt’s ball would get there, but now we’ve got a quarterback who can really put it on the money. Robert has got a stronger arm. |
[Six other people who refused to be taken from a bridge] felt this thing was an act of God and it was OK to just sit there and die, ... They were in God's hands. |
[Without question, my most highly contested selection was Arizona. Matt S. of Dallas provided a typical understated response by writing:] Arizona will make you eat crow! Salim will make you repent, as you bow to the great Wildcat in the sky and chant, 'There is no God but basketball, and Lute Olson is his prophet!' ... I will be e-mailing you at the end of the tournament when Arizona wins it all. |
A couple of years ago, they started wrestling as a varsity sport. We also have all the students in one school now, so it's more crowded. |
Every Friday night for years we've come here. It doesn't hurt that the food's good, too. |
For the first time since I've been here, I was seeing a few double teams, ... That's going to help the offense, having two guys covering me instead of the defense saying, 'Don't worry about the tight end.' They've got to start game-planning more than what they had to do in the past as far as the tight-end position. |
He has a leaf-blower and each morning he blows away the leaves from the veranda and outside area. He also operates the sprinkler, and for that gets to drink XXXX Gold cans all day. At night he also drinks shots of Captain Morgan rum, but he pays for those. |
He was afraid he was going to be placed in some kind of concentration camp. We had to convince him he was a free man, |
He was disappointed with how most everything looked. |
He was expecting a landslide to confirm his mandate and he has not got it. If he stays on, he will continue to be a divisive force. |
I don't like having any foreign flag shoved in my face while someone tries to bully me into doing something. |
I think aside from the quarterbacks and the running backs, we've got the hardest job, ... just because we have to know everything in the passing game and we have to know all the line calls as far as pass protection, running the ball and things like that. So we have to know basically the entire offense inside out. |