I am especially honored that I get to coach on the other side of a guy I really respect. He is one of the coaches that as a young coach you look up to. He has done a fantastic job and they are a very well-coached team. We will have our hands full on Saturday. |
I came out and wrestled tough. I found something loose and was able to get the takedown. Senior year - this is my last year. You have to put everything into it. |
I felt like we had a good game plan set up. It just didn't work to our advantage in the third quarter. We kind of had a meltdown and that was a very pivotal series for us. |
I have four good-looking young men up here that we are counting on big things from. As well as the rest of our senior class, those guys have done a great job so far. |
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find another program with more depth than we have at that position right now. We haven't had that kind of depth the last three years. |
I thought we'd be a little crisper in practice today with the cooler weather, |
I was very impressed with Paul during my time at Ohio State and I know that he is going to be an asset to our coaching staff. He is a very intelligent young man who relates extremely well with players and is well respected. He is also from the Atlanta area which has been and will continue to be an important recruiting area for our program. |
I'll be surprised if Ian Hoskins doesn't have a good spring. |
I'm just happy. I came out this weekend and I was really focused, ready to go, and I told myself I could win. I went out there and I wrestled awesome. In the final I was a little worried, I have a lot of respect for Pelletier and the way (Dickey) beat Pelletier, had me a little worried. I just came out focused. I did everything I wanted to do, I controlled (Dickey) the whole match and I feel really good. |
I'm so proud of the guys because we learned a lesson today. We didn't turn the ball over and we got a win. That's a start. That's heading down the path that we were talking about. |
If had it to do over again, that's what I'd do. |
If I ever do it again, I will call a timeout and kick it on third down. |
If I had to say anybody had a little bit of a lead right now it would be Bernard Morris. He would have a slight lead over the other two. But Derek had a good week of practice last week. |
It looked like he got more comfortable as the game went on, ... He was a little erratic at first. I think the more reps he gets, the better he will be. |
It was an exciting game. First one in overtime as a head coach for me. I've been a part of a few overtime games here in the last six or seven years as places I came from and it was as exciting as it usually is when you go into overtime. |