the brain grows in spurts and that during the middle school years, the brain stops growing -- plateaus -- and so kids couldn't really learn much during this period. |
The guy can get off the ball. He can impact that position. |
The pass defense belongs to everybody, but it starts with the rush. |
Then it's a personal decision from there. I want him to feel, first of all, it's fixed and he can live the rest of his life with it. And if he wants to play football, we'll find out. We won't know that for a while. |
There's a climate there, no doubt about it. People do all this stuff [to improve facilities], and then if it doesn't work, the coach gets fired. |
These kids beat the top kids in the nation. The whole country should be proud of them. |
They are going to face a challenge every week, ... I think this week will be good for these guys. It's going to be a challenging game, and we really think these guys are up to it. |
They didn't know very much for a long time, which is hard to imagine in this day and age, but that shows you what kind of state that place is in. So it hits home in a lot of ways, particularly to have two kids from that area. I think that we have a real sense personally of the loss. |
They don't take them to the ground but they are doing everything but that. We are trying to not create piles so it's not a big deal in that regard (to injuries). We prepare for tackling, even when we don't do much of it. |
They had us on our heels big-time, but the big plays going their way started going our way. It really was a great lesson in perseverance. |
They have a lot of returning guys off a very good team. They didn't fluster or blink because we got ahead of them. |
They were a team that was going to be confident no matter what we did. You could tell they had a lot of players who were part of a very good team last year, and they weren't going to let themselves be rattled. |
They're playmakers. You can talk about everything you want about receivers, but in the end it's making a play. And they both do that. |
This is a big time of year for us. It's all about a focus on teaching without any games on top of you. |
This is obviously a great step in Oregon State football history opening up this new stadium, which is really what it is, and its a big, big factor and hopefully our home record continues as its been. |