Penn State has been building for this season. They will be a tough challenge for us.

We’re still contemplating who we’re going to start, either him or Pat.

Both are capable. Both have moments when they are great, both have moments when they’re not as consistent.

There is an awful lot of athletic talent in the group. Over the next two years, we’ll really find out just how good the class is.

He ran routes and did a pretty good job. He’s not ready yet, but he looked close. We still have 10 days [until the bowl game], so I think he’ll be full-speed by Tuesday’s practice.

The one thing I’m proud about is we battled. I don’t think you saw us quit ever, all the way to the last snap, and I’m real proud of our players for that.

We have been eligible to go to a bowl more than not since we joined I-A, but we’ve never been able to go. I enjoy the practice and being around the players a lot. For...

I’m really encouraged. I remember watching the spring game last year. There’s some talent on the field. We have a chance for a pretty good team.

I think he’ll be fine. We’re all right. If something happened where he didn’t, (walk-on freshman kicker Kyle Bronson ) will do fine. He’s done it all year.

I don’t think about negative things happening. I just think about Pat going out and doing what he does. As the game plays out, we’ll make those decisions. I don’t think ‘Well, if Pat does...

Your quarterback better be a star, because he has so much to do. If you can’t throw the ball better, you’re not going to open up the running game.

They both have been playing great for us.

Any time you can play a game on national television, it’s something we want to do.

Our recruiting is really going very well. The guys we have targeted we are doing real well with.

I don’t know how we didn’t score.

Our linebackers [Nicholas, Moffitt and St. Louis] are dominating – absolutely dominating.

When you get to (reflect), we were bowl eligible, we finished in the top of the Big East (fourth place) and we played the eighth-toughest schedule in the nation. Those are some good things there....

We haven’t always played the best or had the greatest seasons, but every year here we have made progress to something bigger in some way.

Penn State is building their team off their defense and you saw it today. They got two big turnovers and kept us in check.

He’s a very motivated individual and he doesn’t want to miss this game.

It wasn’t me, but those guys had fun. I stayed as far away from that group as I could. I’d show up for five minutes and leave, but they’d play cards, watch TV, have fun....

I said to the team, if we hold them to 14 points in the second half, we’d win. I was wrong.

We’re excited, real excited. We’ve been sitting around too long. We think we have a chance to have a pretty good team. We have to work very hard.

Inherently, that’s big. You gain instant credibility.

The bottom line is, you’ve got to get the ball in the end zone.

You saw the mountains and the valleys in our special teams. Mostly mountains though. We had some pretty good returns.

He’s not small. He’s solid as a rock. He’s a horse. He’s tough and has great hands.

He really did well [Wednesday]. He did maybe better than we had … he really did a good job.

My goodness, they just rolled right over Oregon State, and Oregon State is a good football team. It wasn’t even a game. they just destroyed them. Everybody who has watched Louisville play this season knows...

I thought he tackled incredibly well for one hand. You have to tackle with a club. That was really impressive, and he’s never complained once in practice about it.

They’re ready to play. You can only do so many activities, so much.

I am disappointed that we are not going to the Sugar Bowl. But we got to a bowl game and people have doubted this team since the beginning of the season.

It really helps. It helps us to know what we have and where we’re at with some people. That’s why we’ve already made some moves because we got to look at some guys at different...

What choice is there? You have to do what you have to do. This is more important.

He was our best shot to win.

At defensive end we thought we just hit the gold mine. On our board at end, we about hit on everybody we really wanted.

We had that game to look at a year ago and we didn’t get much done, did we? It sure didn’t help us because they beat the dog out of us. Besides, they’re a different...

Those kids are the ones that have all the courage.

I thought we should’ve gotten here sooner and was surprised we did not go in 2002. But to go to a bowl game as part of a BCS conference is a pretty big deal. A...

They don’t have any weaknesses that I can see.

The one thing I’m proud about our football team is we battled. You’ve got to give credit obviously to North Carolina State’s defense. They did a great job.

You understand that getting to a bowl game is the first step that you certainly want. You’re going to have to be in the top part of your conference to be in bowl games, so...

We don’t have a starter right now. The quarterback situation is pretty wide open.

Pat has earned that right now.

I want to tell you something – we’re in the hunt.

We found out Hector was going to visit Louisville last weekend, and the problem I had was that we had players coming in and I didn’t want to lose them also, so if he was...

We’re stepping up to a whole new level now. We’re a team that has some talent, but we’re facing a heck of a challenge.

We got everything done we needed to. It might have been better inside, we got their attention. We’ve done enough hitting.

They won’t appreciate it as much now as they will 20 years from now. It’s impossible. They’ll appreciate it years from now, when they’re looking back and wondering who was that first [USF] team that...

We’ve thrown and run the ball. We’re going to have to be able to do both in order to be successful.