Offensively, it’s a struggle to get any kind of continuity. We’re not nearly where we need to be offensively, to say the least.

out for a while.

One of the things I pride myself on is being resilient,

Watching the tape, we don’t have an effort problem. We have an execution problem.

Especially early, I thought we were really sharp. Executed fairly well. Didn’t have a whole bunch of mistakes. A few. I thought Erik had a really good game, except the two sacks. He didn’t need...

Unless you’ve been around somebody that’s had one of those serious neck injuries, you just don’t know how devastating it can be.

I think they are very good. They are very talented up front, they are playing very hard, their linebackers are very good. The secondary really hasn’t been challenged that much, but they look to be...

I’m embarrassed about it,

We got 21 points down at LSU, … That’s not the time to run it a whole bunch. And certainly against Georgia, we chose to go another route. Would I like to be 5-0 and...

It’s a mind-set, and truly each team and each game stands on its own. It takes a certain amount of really outstanding leadership and maturity on the team. I think we have that. We’ll find...

What do we do with this?

It’s tough on him. He looks like he’s going to be a really good player and he’s just a fabulous young man. It’s just a shame but it’s in the clearinghouse’s hands. They say they...

I remember looking at this (schedule) a couple of years ago and saying, ‘Man, that’s pretty salty.

Jerod is a guy that you’ll see out here working by himself for 10, 15 minutes after practice. He’s out there working to get better, and it’s paying off for us and him.

I’m looking for guys who will fight. Their time studying the tape to fully understand what is expected is vital, as is the team taking a bigger step each day. There’s a different tempo that...

I can’t concern myself with that.

Monday night football, they’ve been watching that since they’ve been watching football, … Some people will choose instead of the pro game, they’ll flip over to our game, so really we’ve got the attention of...

I thought Erik had a good game except for the two sacks. I’ve been pleased with Jonathan Crompton for him to get into the huddle and verbalize the way he does and with his ability...

I’m not going to make excuses, but I do feel we have the talent to be a very good offense. There are just a couple of areas where we have to do things better.

I thought our kids played really hard. It was a hard-fought classic by two good teams. Obviously, we made a couple of mistakes that got us beat. I don’t take anything away from our kids....

Neither one of them are Jason Allen, but injuries happen, and as you go through the year, you find new guys,

Our backs are to the wall right now to get three wins and the chance to continue our season somewhere. We desperately want to get a chance to do that.

He’s a real key to us.

We’re going to miss him in the locker room as a leader. I know Jason. He’ll be around and part of what we’re trying to do.

They’ve made a lot of improvement in a year as a football program.

It’s just the nature of the business, and he’ll do a good job for them. We play them every year, so there’s not a lot of secrets anyway.

David has done a good job correcting some of the fundamental things (with Ainge). Erik looks like he’s more comfortable in the huddle. His game management has improved. He looks like a veteran quarterback.

makes the most sense.

I don’t believe it’s been an ability thing or an effort thing, … We’ve played some good teams and found a way to screw it up in some special-teams situations and offensively not to be...

When we put the whole thing together, we’ve got a pretty good chance to be a pretty good football team.

That’s a priority, getting on the same page, and one of those ways to help that is to go ahead and make a decision at quarterback and stay with Erik Ainge. That is what we’re...

I remain very disappointed we have had any of these kinds of issues at all but am pleased with the results in court for Bret. He will return to our active roster and the suspension...

Some of the players on our unity council and some of our academic advisers approached me about giving him a second chance.

Ideally. Ideally you’d like to know at all the positions. I’d like to come out of spring practice with an established starter.

It’s very difficult to replace one of the best players on your team regardless of who you are and regardless of what level you are. He’s a great person and he’s been a great leader....

You can’t blame this on one person. Everybody wants to say it’s this person or that person. It’s a combination of a lot of things and some you can fix hopefully in the short term...

Our defense has played consistently,

I think Rick Clausen is absolutely one of the greatest stories in college football last year and he brings leadership, a calm demeanor, an intellect of knowing our offense and using the personnel around him...

Obviously this is a great day for the Tennessee Volunteers. These young men represent some of the finest football players in the country, and we’re thrilled they have chosen to stay. Obviously it will greatly...

I think we’ve got as good a group there as we’ve had in some time as a whole.

You keep waiting for that to happen, for Chris Hannon to come out of the pack, for Robert Meachem to come out of the pack. I hope they’re all good.

They use a lot of man, but they may not think they can play us that way or want to play us that way. We’ll just have to see. When you play man-to-man there are...

I’m not taking away from the fact that we got a win today, but it’s hard to feel great about it because I thought we’d play better than we did on both sides.

If we can play a game, we’re going to play a game because that’s good for us and certainly good for our fans. But if we don’t have the depth to do that, we would...

He just needs to slow down and let things happen for him and connect on some of those plays that we can connect on,

The emotional roller coaster and the need to win is so intense that for the wives, who have no control over what happens on the field, there are times when you want to burst into...

This has been an extremely difficult season for everyone, especially Coach Sanders. I want it to be understood that by no means (are) the results of the season any one person’s fault.

C.J., I’m sure, knows a lot about our offense and our signals and our system and how we go about things, and it’s certainly something that we will have to address.

(We) have been flip-flopping ever since. It’s been a real tough thing to manage,

They’re doing some things to cut time out of the game. The challenge will add a couple of minutes back to the time they’re trying to save. Again, if it’s an effort to get it...