'To be fair and honest. You've been approved, we just don't have a spot for you.' |
(Ginn) is as good as any player out in space as I have ever seen. We do not feel like Holmes gets near the publicity he deserves. So both of those guys are as good as anybody we will play this year at (wide receiver). |
(The win) gives us the opportunity to stay at (No. 2) and hopefully get better as a team. Last year, when we lost in October, we lost some of that and couldn't get back up. It by no means gives you a right to the end, and that's what our kids have to understand. It's a long, hard 11 weeks left. |
(Young) has a chance to be a great pro player. |
[Just listen to those involved.] This is a great test for us and a great challenge for the Big 12 and Big Ten conferences, ... You have to enjoy a game that matches two teams where Woody Hayes and Darrell Royal once coached, and there's a ton of tradition there. |
[Kansas State's defense] was running over us. We couldn't block them. That's why we took Chance out and put Vince in, because he's more mobile. |
[Other signs indicate Young's heightened focus. Once this summer, Brown called his quarterback on a Saturday night, a move Brown admits is not advised during the offseason because players likely are out having fun.] That's really dumb, ... of a coach to be that naive. |
[Texas coach Mack Brown doesn't seem to share Tressel's and Castiglione's enthusiasm for such matchups. In a conference call with reporters earlier this week, Brown intimated the 'Horns, who scheduled the Ohio State series roughly a decade ago when the program was struggling financially and competitively, might not have made the same choice under the present circumstances.] At places like ours, we're going to fill up our stadium regardless of who we're playing, ... so we'd actually make more money playing another game at home, getting our guys ready for our conference schedule. So I don't see this continuing [beyond next year's game in Austin]. |
[The Lone Star State's best college football team is alone at the top of the Bowl Championship Series standings, but even the Texas Longhorns know Monday's rise might be fleeting.] It's a compliment, ... We understand the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. |
[The No. 2 Longhorns passed the first test before a record crowd of 105,565 at Ohio Stadium; No. 17 Oklahoma, ever the killjoy, awaits Oct. 8.] (The win) gives us the opportunity to stay at (No. 2) and hopefully get better as a team, ... Last year, when we lost in October, we lost some of that and couldn't get back up. It by no means gives you a right to the end, and that's what our kids have to understand. It's a long, hard 11 weeks left. |
[Wright will be a first-round NFL pick in '06. Mangold is arguably the best center in the nation.] The game could be decided in the trenches, ... It's a matter of who's the toughest the longest. |
[Young passed for three touchdowns, ran for another and Jamaal Charles set a Texas freshman debut record Saturday night with 135 yards rushing for the Longhorns, who travels to No. 6 Ohio State next weekend.] It will be a fun game for college football, ... The buildup started in early spring. |
A guy has adversity and picks himself up and fights through it, |
A year and a half ago, the quarterback that is going to make $50 million threw six passes that were completed against Missouri — three to them and three to us. Six! We had his eyes checked, make sure he wasn't color blind. We had to go back and evaluate what we were doing. ... That's the exciting thing we have to do this spring. |
A year and a half ago, there were people who questioned whether Vince Young could be a major college quarterback. |