There's a lot of great enthusiasm in this team and I felt like that's something that's carried over since the bowl game. |
There's some glaring numbers. He's done things no one else has done. |
They did some good things with the top two guys out. There's going to be a lot of competition, so let it continue when we come back in August. |
They got the option going, and we were scrambling with that a little bit, then they play-action a little bit and come down with the ball. That's good play-calling and some good execution on their part. |
They were hitting on every single thing they did, there were a lot of things that did not go our way. You just try to maintain your poise and be positive with your players. |
They've played our offense in the past and they'll also have a game to see exactly what we're doing, and maybe Arkansas State didn't. They maybe guessed on a few things based on reading articles. |
Things were not looking good. |
Things weren't good. Wow. I can imagine what they were saying about me in the stands. |
Those quarterbacks love the shovel pass. They've got a choice to shovel it and take the passing yards or pitch it and let that guy take the yards. |
Usually my players do a pretty good job of that. I think (New Mexico) is a very good football team. Just look at what they've accomplished in the past. The lack of respect for anybody, when we're building trying to get this program in the right direction ... We don't want to be irresponsible. |
We didn't do as good in-state as we wanted to. I've felt very good in the past that we've done a good job of recruiting the state of Missouri. It certainly wasn't a lack of effort. |
We had a touchdown called back, but we fought through that. We got first down going in and had a huge penalty on that and we still fought back. So there was a lot of stuff my guys overcame. |
We have 28 practices until our next game. The best guy's going to play. We took the same approach when Brad Smith was a freshman. We're not going to shut it down and declare anyone a starter. |
We were doing pretty good until this year and I'm very proud of what we've done to this year. This year we're not pleased with it and we expect to make it better. |
We wouldn't have made the changes we did if it would have affected him, |