Every game, T.J. always finds hustle points. Every game he is going to kick in with pure hustle plays, and those are the plays that lift you emotionally. When you see a teammate make plays...

Thomas is a better back than what you saw today. I’m not saying he was bad, he wasn’t bad at all. I saw Thomas do some things during our two a day period that were...

Part of it is he presses awfully hard. He wants to make a play every time he gets a chance.

Thomas had no intent, nor did he harm anyone. He was wrong in departing from where he was, and he accepts that responsibility. He knows that there are consequences, and he is in the process...

It was not surprising to me,

As I said to Davin or any of our players, no one play (decided the outcome). I can think of 100 in any ball game…. No one should have to carry the burden for that....

I think the people that have come through the program and have gone on to be productive young people in society means as much as anything, … I mean really productive people become special people...

I think for everything there is probably a right time, and its normally pretty difficult to define what that right time is, … To me, this is the right time and the reasons are pretty...

They took him through the mud, pretty much. He was a good man.

I don’t know. I thought he ran very, very well. Yes, he’ll be a factor.

We spent a lot of time looking backward, and that was out of necessity. What has taken place is we’ve worked very diligently and hard collectively, our staff and our players, to define exactly what...

It was my intent for him to be here, and Thomas was on board with that. But because this hasn’t been settled yet legally, we’ll wait until that takes place. His not being here is...

Rhett just gives you the complete package, I think. Now, it’s just a matter of growth for him.

I think the time is right … because first and foremost, it’s best for the university, … I think that because of the nature of the profession that we are in, it becomes a difficult...

The difficult thing is that it’s still an early season game, there’s a change in the coaching staff and there’s a number of different things,

Beating Chippewa Valley is a pretty good win for us or for anybody. I don’t care what their record is when we play them. They come out and they play hard and play good defense....

Dick [Montgomery], a painter by trade, was just a hardworking, humble guy. Now they have two daughters serving in Africa, one in Portugal and a son doing mission work in Iraq.

There are some youngsters who need a lot of [repetition] for the development process, but Darren doesn’t need those extra carries.

Well, how do you want me to measure it, … On a scale of one to 10, we were a zero.

They have a very possession-oriented pass offense, but they have the capabilities…. They can stretch you down the field and stretch you laterally as well. They have good receivers who not only can catch the...

It was a monumental game, I think, for him. I thought he handled it quite well, from what I saw. He’s a very poised young guy.

I sat by my locker, and tears ran down my face. The man was a legend. He made some of my dreams come true.

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It was a tough year. I give my kids credit. The (MAC) White division is so physical. The second time through the league is just brutal. I couldn’t be more pleased with my kid’s performance...

The county attorney did what he had to do, … I’m confident there was no intent on Thomas’s part time bring harm to anyone. He made a bad choice, a bad decision, and outside of...

They are the hidden culprit.

I’m pleased we won. That shows character. … I’m more concerned with the fact that we found ways to self destruct. It’s the same as was last week (against Florida International), three turnovers and 90...

Anything that happens within the confines of our program, it has been our policy to keep it in-house. Indeed, I will always do that.

How did he play? Not very well, … You saw in the second half he was a very competitive young man. Collectively, over the course of the ballgame, he probably didn’t play too well.

I would have gotten the money, … There wasn’t any doubt. We were fighting tooth and nail to get this thing going. We weren’t just going to let it fly by the wayside.

There’s no doubt there will be things that will be different from when we played them two years ago. We can run ourselves silly looking at Ohio State tape (when Mark Snyder coached there), this...

You don’t have a good running game unless your offensive line is doing well. I think we made some progress after making some unforced errors. It was a little shady but we got better and...

All three of us coached together at Iowa. Both Dan and Kirk are dear friends. You can’t pick a winner you love them both, but the agony is that someone has to lose, so you...

Penalties and turnovers probably put us in a hole more than anything else. It’s a matter of focus and discipline, and penalties and turnovers really created the difference.

The positive side is that we put together about 12 minutes of play where our offense, defense and kicking game played probably as well as we could play at this particular point of the season....

We have to let things settle down a little bit. It’s not what it appears to be. And I’m not in position to tell you, to elaborate on that. But I don’t think it’s quite...

All of our headsets went out. We had no communication whatsoever. Fortunately, we had a cell phone. That probably cost us about a thousand bucks in charges. Anyway, that’s how we did it.

How much do you need?

People are beginning to understand the value of heart screening, and Sharon has been instrumental in promoting that effort.

He’s done some tremendous things, as you’ve seen, … and he’s made some errors. The interceptions (and) the decision-making process needs to improve. He’s got segments of his game that just need to get better.

I’ve not been the kind of father than I should have been, nor the kind of husband, … I don’t know if I can correct that. I’m going to spend some time because they have...

If they are in the middle of the field all the time, yes, it is probably pretty hard for anyone to stop, … If you can get some field position, and you give them the...

That win was not a fluke by any stretch.

I think we consider ourselves to be very fortunate to have won the ballgame.

Young people are resilient and can get up at early times. They just like to play. We’re not going to make a major issue of it.

I can’t root for that game, so I can’t pick a winner. … But it’s not surprising. Dan’s done an incredible and amazing job at Iowa State. That victory was not a fluke.

There was a period of time after we had given the gift of 10 points, probably 12 and a half-, 13-minute period of time, where we probably played as well as we’ve played for quite...

I’ve not been the kind of father that I should have been, and the kind of husband,

The other 10 guys need to give him some help. We’ve got a lot of talent at other positions, and to make that kind of commitment to one guy can be somewhat risky.

It was very wet. The greens were very hard to putt. A lot of golfers had a problem with that. If you’re a long ball hitter, you were fine.