It's a combination of young guys and some veterans. I spent a lot of time interviewing and talking to the staff here. I really felt they did a good job. I wanted to keep as many as I could. |
It's been a good spring. It's been a learning process, obviously, with some of the new things that we put in. |
It's been unbelievable and flattering to me. |
It's exciting just to get out there, number one, but more than anything, just to see where we're at. We've got to find out who the players are. To me, the most exciting time, the most fun time, is practice. So I'm looking forward to it. |
It's fun to see the enthusiasm out there right now as far as the Vandals are concerned. They deserve that enthusiasm after the things they've gone through the last few years. |
It's not about the money, it's about coaching ? I'm a coach. It's all I've done all my life. Making me sit out last year made it appreciate it even more. |
Just being around the players and coaches; the camaraderie of the game; to see them learn and get better, improve all the time; and being around the coaches and coaching football, which is what I do best. Probably the most fun is to see them get better as a football team and as individuals. |
No question about it. It seems like I haven't been on the field in a long time, which I haven't. |
No, not at all. I don't have any ego. People who know me well enough know that. I just want to coach. |
Now, it's just a matter of competing, winning some games and working your rear end off. There is no magic wand. |
Obviously the focal point on any football team is the quarterback, there is no question about that. And I feel very, very good about Steve. |
Scott is a natural leader. And he had a winner's attitude. He's just a tremendous competitor. When it got down to crunch time, he wanted the ball, he wanted to make the play. And he was smart. He understood the offense, and we really were doing some different things back then. Everyone had confidence in him. |
Steve threw the ball well. Steve was very impressive, particularly his accuracy. He was on the money. |
The challenge here is to win, to compete for the conference championship and to go to bowl games. Yeah, I love it here. I came here because I'm a football coach and I want to help the University of Idaho become successful. |
The greatest thing that's happened to me is Nick Holt leaving so I can come back. |