We haven't had the ball very much. We had a couple of nice drives in the second half against Rutgers, ate up the clock and got field goals. |
We know people can outnumber you in the box. We will be forced to pass, and we'll have to do so. That will be an important part of the summer, how the quarterbacks and wide receivers work together, when we can't be around them. |
We lost a lot of guys to graduation last year, so we realized there wasn't going to be a lot of talk about us winning the Big East this year. It was neat to watch them come together. |
We never had an opportunity to get another group in there, or test our conditioning. We never got gassed, because they were three and out so many times. We wanted to play more people. That's a goal of ours. |
We think Mozes may be even better at center and Hines even better at guard. It's an experiment we've tried. |
We took the approach that we're playing an 11-round championship fight. Right now we've completed seven rounds and we're on round eight. And we also have some lessons to teach from last year when we had a chance and our destiny in our own hands. We stubbed our toe a little bit at the end. |
We treat it as an 11-round season and our guys understand that, and if they don't, I'm going to keep preaching it because it's true. The more you win, the more that is at stake. |
We went over to the Dome last night to the game to get a sense of the atmosphere, and I know it will be even louder Monday night. Communication is going to be a big key, but we can't prepare our guys fully until it happens. |
We will certainly miss Pac Man as a player and as a valued member of the Mountaineer football family, but I certainly understand his decision. |
We'd have to check your pulse if you don't get excited for this one. |
We'll have to roll guys in there, ... I think we felt his absence a little bit. He'd really played well at nose guard and held the point down for us. That's a key, key position on the defensive front. |
We'll show them that it's a hundred yards long from goal line to goal line and 53 yards wide. We'll show them the goal posts are just the same as they are everywhere else. |
We're a little more talented now than maybe we've been the last couple years. But we've got to show it on the field. |
We're not ready, but we're more ready every day. If I tell both they will play, they will play. But I don't want them looking over their shoulder, either, thinking they will come out with one mistake. Both give us an extra dimension. |
We're obviously excited to win the outright Big East championship. Our young men have worked very hard all season to achieve this goal. |