This is all preseason. How good is Idaho? Who knows they might be real good. … What matters at the end of the season is how many wins do you have?

USC-Notre Dame is a good rivalry, but you can lose the game and still win your conference.

Intensity-wise I’m happy with the way they played. The defense was moving all over the field.

Hanging around these and 20-year-old guys, you always feel young.

I think both teams conducted themselves well.

It’s not the end of the world, either. He’s still gotta maintain and keep the position.

Offensively, at quarterback, we’ve got Alex Brink and we’re happy to have him back. Every position is always open, but Alex Brink is our guy.

I was shocked. I thought we could compete better than that.

We’re a bigger, stronger team, and I think we wore them down in the late third and fourth quarters.

Will’s feeling better and we may take Will along for moral support. He might be able to play, depending on how it progresses, against USC (next week), but more than likely it will be the...

I saw pretty good football today.

Everything is yes, sir, coach.

We got embarrassed down there. They embarrassed us. And I was embarrassed myself for our team and our performance. It was tough.

If (Brink) falls on his face, we’re lucky as heck to have a darn good guy right behind him. It’s a tough, tough decision. I love Josh like a son, and it’s hard to tell...

That was good, and what was really good was to see him make one under pressure in overtime when we had to have it done. That’s almost like a game-winning situation, but that’s quite a...

I’ve been in college football for 30 years, and it’s as good as I’ve seen.

This year, he’s a lot more confident. He knows the offense well. I think he worked really hard this summer and improved his physical ability.

It’s a springboard for the weight program and the off-season program and for spring ball. We ended the streak and we are going to try to start a new streak. It wasn’t easy. The Huskies...

He just made less mistakes. He was more aware of the offense and he did the little things, like throwing the ball on time. He’s improved and improved his arm strength.

We’re going to continue to recruit. We’ve still got a couple spaces open, looking for corners or linebackers.

Maurice Drew is an excellent running back.

We’ve had enough hitting. The kids are tired of hitting each other.

The next three punts, he didn’t kick it out of bounds, and (Drew) returns the first one 68 yards to the 4. The next one went 81 yards for a touchdown and the next one...

He just didn’t feel comfortable on the run. He tried to accelerate through one time and it just wasn’t there. He couldn’t push off well.

As the game wore on, we couldn’t stop anybody. Credit to them.

Their offensive line is huge. It will be a challenge because we haven’t seen anyone that big. We’re going to have to move our line and out-quick them.

It’s tough. I love Josh like a son and it’s hard to tell a guy that the other guy [got the job].

Graham hasn’t missed yet. And actually, Langley is kicking off better than Graham.

I don’t think we want to kick it to that little guy, even if the fans boo. We want to kick out of bounds, or kick it real high so we can get down and...

Our advantage is having a game under our belt. I think that is huge.

To turn it around, I think we have to stay relatively healthy. Healthy at the linebacker position, for sure. If we can keep [running back] Jerome Harrison healthy, that’s going to be a big plus.

If you’ve got a linebacker covering him, you might as well start singing their fight song.

We looked a little lethargic after we got the 14-0 lead.

We’ve given up some yards and we’ve got to get that locked in.

It is a good opportunity to take a veteran team down there. It’ll be great motivation for our players all summer.

They’re playmakers. We expect a heck of a lot from those guys.

If they can leave those two guys home, I like our chances a lot better.

No one was willing to take a chance on him. I’m sure glad we did.

We still have high hopes for him. Our job now is to make sure he gets his class work done and maintains his eligibility. It’s just that bone. … They’ll X-ray it every two weeks.

The biggest advantage is SC, they’re used to winning and they expect to win. Even if you do get a lead, you’re wondering when the other shoe is going to drop.

I think you are a little more nervous because you don’t really know how your team is going to react. To be honest with you, Idaho scares the heck out of me. I know they’re...

The second half is the problem. I was watching TV (last Saturday) and there are some pretty good teams in our conference.

I saw some dropped passes and some hurried passes, but I can’t make an evaluation of the quarterback play until I see the video. We are not ready to pick one [starter] yet. We’ll make...

I think we were bigger and stronger in some areas, and we were able to wear them down.

He’s a good player and a great competitor. No one took it (the loss) harder than him. He was really upset.

I don’t think we totally dominated. I think it was a pretty tough ball game until the second quarter.

That really got us going. It was a tight game until the second quarter. What got us going was the interception for touchdown.

Defensively, we flew around pretty good, but I was disappointed with the offense.

We always thought he had great potential. He’s just going to keep getting better and better.

It’s always a concern when it’s a I-AA team that our team might look past them. They’ve got talent. … We have to be prepared.