He's not even supposed to be practicing yet. He hurt his back lifting weights and they told me it'd probably be two to four days. And he missed like two periods. |
I think what really turned a lot of people on, when we saw him play basketball, he was that big and that fluent that they couldn't push him out of the paint, ... He could rebound. He could jump. |
I was disappointed in him because he has a lot of potential. He was not playing up to his potential. He was lazy. He wasn't keeping up with his academics. |
It's his time. We need his leadership because we're pretty young across that front line. We've put a lot of pressure on him since the bowl game. I told him this is your D-line and this is your time, so take it over. |
Once Coach Whitt started recruiting him I think everybody started recruiting him, ... That happens a lot of times with a kid. You get a couple of schools looking at him and then everybody jumps on. |
Once Coach Whitt started recruiting him I think everybody started recruiting him. That happens a lot of times with a kid. You get a couple of schools looking at him and then everybody jumps on. |
That showed me a lot of guts. It's pretty rare, ... Most of them would drop out. |
That's kind of their M.O. to run the ball, ... It's going to be a physical, tough SEC game. They've always given us trouble running the ball. If you look at the history, they've had some big games against us. We've got to stop the run. That's every week, but especially this week. |
That's kind of their M.O. to run the ball. It's going to be a physical, tough SEC game. They've always given us trouble running the ball. If you look at the history, they've had some big games against us. We've got to stop the run. That's every week, but especially this week. |
The question with him -- and we ask him this every day -- is can he maintain and can you continue to do that? If he can, he can help us and help himself. The jury is still out. |
We weren't going to push him, but I looked at him and he was back in there. You've got to love him. I wish we all had that attitude. He's just a tough kid. |
We're going to need him by the end of the year for sure. I plan on playing him. |
With something of that magnitude, I thought, God, it can't be. My gut reaction was, gee, the whole thing is an error. |