It's not something that I wanted to hear, but I am going to go with whatever the doctors and trainers say first. The timing of it is such that I haven't been able to practice and so the coaches have to do what's best for the team. |
My lifestyle wasn't great in baseball, and I'm much happier now. After spending three years in the minors, getting a chance to play at Colorado was a dream come true for me. |
Obviously (two weekends ago), with the in-state boys (Colorado State) coming down here, we weren't thinking anywhere past Sept. 3, |
People will know about us and our game come Saturday night. ... We don't need recognition now. Hopefully afterwards people will know who we are and how we play. |
Team-wise, it's such an important game for us because we know how well CSU plays against us, |
The same guys being in the flow of the action, being game fresh. . . . It's little things like that that I believe will help us. But it also goes a lot of layers deep, guys being a year older, guys practicing more, everybody concentrating more. |
We crossed our 40, and at that point, I feel our percentages go up a ton because of Mason. We've got tremendous confidence in him. |
We have to open up because of the number of weapons we have. |
We just stuck together and decided to fight our way through, put our heads down ... way back two springs ago. I think that has carried on all the way through. Last year's seniors taught this team how to work hard, how to not worry about what's going on around them, (to) just focus on internal issues. |
We knew our defense would improve, and people failed to realize that our offensive line was returning. We've laid some real eggs this season, but this week we felt like we turned a huge corner. |
We seemed to move the ball OK. And we'd have our opportunities at first down and things like that, but they really played well. ... We've just got to learn from our mistakes. You can't make mistakes against Miami. |
We're going to be under the microscope every time we step on the field, and the way we silence it is if we go out there and win. I can't wait to get out there and show the country what kind of football team we are. |