He's like a pianist whose child learns how to play a piano. It's almost in the genes. He's been around it, he's seen it and he's seen his dad get ready for it. I do believe that if he didn't have any talent, the genes wouldn't matter, but he has talent. |
These wins don't come very often. You savor this. Against a good football team like that, people just don't come from 21 points down. |
We brought him up the last week of practice and the coaches came to me and said we'd be crazy if we didn't think about starting him as a freshman. We had that feeling that he was going to be as good as advertised. |
We had to play flawless and we didn't. But we played strong. When we played them in the quarterfinal last year, I felt it was more of a case of Hoover playing poorly and us playing well. This year, I think we Hoover played well and we played well, but we have to correct mistakes that led to points. |