He would have a great chance to start for us.

It’s a combination of young guys and some veterans. I spent a lot of time interviewing and talking to the staff here. I really felt they did a good job. I wanted to keep as...

Him missing 2? weeks in the preseason really hurt him and set him behind,

The greatest thing that’s happened to me is Nick Holt leaving so I can come back.

We want to compete for conference championships and go to bowl games.

If we can get that done, then a lot of things will happen. I don’t know what it’s going to cost, but obviously we’re going to have to do that.

It’s been unbelievable and flattering to me.

I spoke to him today and wished him well. He’s going to do a great job.

Congratulations. What a league, huh?

I’ll have to talk to him it’s the first I’ve heard of it. We all make mistakes. It’s what you do after.

We expect him to miss this week and we think he’ll probably play the last three games.

Tim is very smart. He understands the game and has a good arm. He does a lot of the things I like to do offensively. How good is he going to be? I don’t know....

In four years, I thought we got them into a pretty good situation. In the fifth year, obviously, they took away our chance.

It’s fun to see the enthusiasm out there right now as far as the Vandals are concerned. They deserve that enthusiasm after the things they’ve gone through the last few years.

Al is a great technician of secondary play. He is as good as there is at coaching cornerbacks. He was with me for two years at Oregon State and then at the San Francisco 49ers....

He’ll be back to play next year, but obviously he’s out for Saturday.

It was just fun to get out and coach. The enthusiasm for the first day was unbelievable. For me personally, it was great to get out there and coach.

It was a bad decision, taking that job.

There were times last year when we had offensive and defensive linemen going both ways. There are times when guys are so beat up, they won’t practice on Wednesdays. They won’t practice on Fridays. So...

To have those two conference games at home is very exciting. It’s always great to have your rival game at home.

I had the opportunity to meet all the candidates. George is the perfect fit for this job — he knows Idaho, he knows the Northwest and he knows basketball. I welcome him as a colleague.

Eric’s injury is a huge blow to this team. It’s just too bad, because he’s been playing so well. Hopefully we’ll get him back.

It’s not about the money, it’s about coaching ? I’m a coach. It’s all I’ve done all my life. Making me sit out last year made it appreciate it even more.

Eric’s injury is a huge blow to this team, … It’s just too bad, because he’s been playing so well. Hopefully we’ll get him back.

No question about it. It seems like I haven’t been on the field in a long time, which I haven’t.

The muscle came off the bone; it was obviously serious.

I thought we did some pretty good things … execution-wise. The offense is new, but they executed pretty well. Defensively we did some good things, but we’ve got a long way to go.

If I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it in the next few days.

Steve threw the ball well. Steve was very impressive, particularly his accuracy. He was on the money.

It’s exciting just to get out there, number one, but more than anything, just to see where we’re at. We’ve got to find out who the players are. To me, the most exciting time, the...

I’m going to finish what I need to do. I hope I’m here. I want to be a part of it.

Now, it’s just a matter of competing, winning some games and working your rear end off. There is no magic wand.

I’m excited to be back in the state and around these people I’ve known for a long time. There aren’t many times you have an opportunity to come back and finish where you started.

We’re having guys start to step up and it’s very important that we have that. We’ve just got to keep moving, get to the football, and play with a lot of pride in this program,...

I haven’t seen them on the field. When you look at it on tape, when you win two football games, you haven’t done a lot of good things, to be honest.

There are times during the year where you’re so beat up, even with the practice guys that you have, that you can’t even practice,

Just being around the players and coaches; the camaraderie of the game; to see them learn and get better, improve all the time; and being around the coaches and coaching football, which is what I...

I just thought it was an opportunity for me to come back, give back and get back to coaching college football … my first love.

I guess I’m a glutton for punishment.

Obviously the focal point on any football team is the quarterback, there is no question about that. And I feel very, very good about Steve.

[Has he been examined by a doctor?] I stay away from them, … Hell, they might put me on IR. You never know around here.

We’re going to wait for the legal part of it to come about and find out exactly what happened and what direction we’re going to go in.

The challenge here is to win, to compete for the conference championship and to go to bowl games. Yeah, I love it here. I came here because I’m a football coach and I want to...

No, not at all. I don’t have any ego. People who know me well enough know that. I just want to coach.

There were a lot of questions in a lot of people’s minds. Not ours. I expected him to play well. For the first time out, he probably performed better than any of us thought.

I feel sorry for the guy. It’s like he’s coaching in the Pac-10 with 50 scholarships instead of 85.

I think there’s a good chance. This interests me.

It’s been a good spring. It’s been a learning process, obviously, with some of the new things that we put in.

If we’re going to throw the ball and be consistent, we’ve got to be able to throw it, we’ve got to be able to catch it and we can’t throw interceptions. Those are the things...

As time went on through the first and second years (2001-02), you could see him making plays all the time,