Terrible. Atrocious. We violated about every fundamental there is. |
That saved one of my assistant coaches; that's all that did when he fumbled the ball. I'm not going to tell you the assistant. He shouldn't have done that. |
That's an easy question, but a tough answer. To go from a loser to a winner, to a consistent winner, it's not all done until you win a conference championship. |
That's one of the things I love about my job, because I get to see people, kids, under pressure, and I know a lot of people are always very critical of people when they are not under pressure but when they see other people who are not coming through, |
The biggest thing that he brings to our program is toughness. He makes everybody tougher. He's as tough as they come. |
The difference between 3-8 and 8-3 is so small that if you blink your eye, you miss it. |
The first thing that comes to my mind, I feel this is the worst defeat we've endured in the seven-plus years I've been here. |
The first time that he's going in there in front of 100,000 people and be on TV, it's a different experience for him. Sometimes they handle it well, and sometimes they don't. |
The last couple of years, we were rotating three or four guys in there. We don't have that luxury right now. |
There are ways to coach -- one is not to lose and the other is to coach to win. I learned a long time ago that it is a lot more fun to try and coach to win. If you want to be critical, it was my decision to try and score before the half, leaving time on clock. |
There is still a lot of football to be played. If you keep looking in the rearview mirror, that's where you will go - backwards. You have to shake this off and march forward. |
There's a reason why he was a most valuable player in the Ohio North/South All-Star Game, and in the Big 33 game between Ohio and Pennsylvania [high school players], he was the most valuable player, ... I'm just glad we got him here in Minnesota. |
They are all grown men. I'm sensitive to it, but I don't know exactly what the situation is. |
They are playing more physical. Now we have to switch gears because we are playing a whole other type of attack this week. Purdue's tough to defend; they are doing a great job with that offense. We'll know a lot more about our defense after this week. Right now, we are OK. |
They have been comfortable winning games 55-54. We're better suited to win 10-7. |