I think we've got it worked out, and they'll be able to come, but it might not happen. We hope they'll be here, but you can't deny them the opportunity to play in a bowl game. It's too important to their future. |
I was stunned he was interested in the job. I really meant it when I said he's the best offensive coordinator and play-caller I've ever seen. I think he was tired of sitting around playing golf and really wanted to get back into coaching. |
I was surprised he was even interested in the job because he's so good. |
I'm real excited about it. I think that he will bring an added excitement to the program. |
If he does anything else similar, he probably won't be on this football team. |
In my opinion Utah, last year, could have played with any of those guys and had a legitimate chance to beat them. I'm guessing that none of those guys wanted to play them either. |
It's a retention rate, not just an academic rate. The spirit of this rule is right on. We're always pushing to get better. I don't think it's fair, but I am very confident we will be over 925 for the 2005-06 school year. |
It's not necessarily a disadvantage to play so quickly, but it will be tough. They're a very talented team, so we're going to have to make a lot of improvements and be extremely focused with the time that we do have this week. |
It's very exciting for us, as a coaching staff, to have so many guys get invited to the combine. That's never happened before and is a compliment to the work we've done here. That would have been unbelievable five years ago, but we've made a lot of progress and these guys have earned it. |
Lucas Higgins came to me after the incident and told me what happened. He was disciplined and is in a probationary period right now with the team. |
Nobody has seen it enough yet to get a real good handle on how to stop it. As long as it's going to be effective, people are going to run it. We haven't stopped it yet, so we're still in the process of trying to learn how. |
Of course, all 5,000 coaches at this conference are all looking for better jobs and better pay. But at this point, no one on our staff has interviewed with anyone else. |
People wonder sometimes whether we educate these guys because a guy slips up and makes a mistake. Well, we do extensive education. We cover steroids, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, domestic relations. We do extensive education with these guys, more than the student body gets and probably more than the general population ever gets. But for whatever reason, these guys are under more scrutiny, so we have to try to educate them. |
Students spend three or four hours of their time to beautify beautiful Albuquerque, and they get rewarded. It's one hell of a deal. |
The defense continues to improve, and we're seeing some guys start to step up. I'm just not confident when it comes to stopping the spread offense. It's a really tough offense to deal with no matter who runs it. |