I have no idea what it's like. I know everybody is all fired up at other schools when they get it. It's a great opportunity for fans and students to show we have the kind of passion for college football they have in other parts of the country. I hope there's a great turnout (to watch and cheer Saturday) and they have a great time with it. |
I hope everyone understands -- this game needed to be played. The only question was where it was going to be played. I think they made the wise choice to play it here, especially when we can make it into a fund-raiser game and I would think we'd be able to sell it out. I don't really think about the advantages or disadvantages. We're going to play a football game against a heck of a team. |
I know Loren can play if he can get healthy. He's like a pitcher on a pitch count right now. He's on a knee count. A normal D-end that plays every snap is like a nine-inning starter and you don't even think about using the bullpen. Right now we'd have to go to the bullpen a lot on Loren. |
I love players who do that. It shows that they're into the it. |
I'm saying that from a totally uneducated perspective. My impression is what you see on TV. I'm not in Baton Rouge. We all feel horrible about what's going on there. I have no idea what we'd be going into. |
If he can be a starting corner, great. If he can't, he'll jump right back to offense. Even if he is a starting corner, he'll still play some offense. |
If we take care of business, we'll get back to where we need to be in the polls. |
If you ask Dr. Howard, he can probably diagnose almost all of our injuries and give you a timetable when they're all going to get back. Unfortunately, I haven't seen many of his predictions come true yet. |
If you do it in practice and do it right, that's how you base your game plan, for anything. We've been executing that (punt) play in practice since camp. If our guys do what they're supposed to do, Chris kicks it in the corner out of bounds, or he runs for a first down. |
If you saw Dale down in the locker room right now, he looks like what every coach tells his players they should look like at the end of a game. Dale left everything he had out there on the field today. |
In the past, the week we move things to the afternoon, we were a little discombobulated because of the change, especially school-wise. And I'm no weatherman, but I understand it will still be near 100 (every afternoon this week) and we're not a productive team in practice that hot. |
It doesn't make any sense to have them down at the hotel. |
It says he's a better athlete than anybody in this circle, including me. We've had other great athletes, but Rudy is truly a great all-around athlete. |
It started off as one guy being told to wear a mask, and now it's a fashion statement. Coach ( Darryl ) Jackson started that. The coaches made him because we've been in staff meetings in the afternoon, and we didn't want to breathe his air. |
It wasn't Chris MacDonald's fault. If he gets two more steps around the corner, he gets a first down and the special teams coach is a hero. |