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...

I don’t remember this many mistakes in a single game,

I am concerned about this weather that’s apparently coming in, but that’s not something we can do anything about today.

I assure you that no one is happy about our season _ especially me, and I know that our fans deserve better than what we produced this year.

Some of that is coming with experience. He’s one of those guys that wants to try to make a play. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. We want to use the system for what it...

Chris is doing much better now. Everybody was obviously very concerned.

We’ve got some real challenges ahead. Obviously they start with Notre Dame.

Rick certainly seems in command right now. Erik seems to be pressing a bit out there. When you grade the film and look at all the cut-ups and all the breakdowns of all the drills,...

Rick is our quarterback right now, and unless there’s a reason to change we won’t change. Obviously, Rick has brought consistency and calmness to our offense.

I’m not going to give any advice to Steve. He’s got all the answers anyway.

Our team completely agreed, and we addressed that today, that all the hardships those people (in Louisiana) are going through and have been through ‘¦ that our little bit of an adjustment of the schedule...

It’s obvious that we really underachieved on offense last season. And everybody contributed, including me.

We started the off-season program with intensity, focus and purpose and we started spring practice with intensity, focus and purpose. These are three important days for us. I want us to finish this week with...

On the penalties, you have to hope you have better control. The late hits on the quarterback were close. You want your guys to be aggressive.

The clearinghouse issue hasn’t been cleared up. It may be cleared up in two days, five days, six months, I don’t know. If it’s just a couple of days he could come right back, but...

I would like to be a balanced football team, … I would like to rush the ball well. I know how much better it is on everybody when you can rush the football.

There was no panic. We challenged each other.

If we don’t play better we’re going to struggle especially the next couple of weeks. So I’m expecting us to go back to work and correct our mistakes.

Rick will start and we’ll rotate probably. I want somebody to take the job and it be it.

He won the game, basically. It’s hard to believe from a punter, but the guy’s been incredible, not just with the length of the kicks but the direction of his kicks. Your jaw drops as...

You know, those guys all rode school buses, those Bluebird school buses to the game when they were in high school and played, … They got off the bus, put on the pads and played....

Randy has dedicated his adult life to this program,

Their offensive scheme is a proven scheme. It’s effective if you have the right people running it.

There is a sense of anxiety to hurry up and get started and get back on track.

They split the reps (in practice). We have two quarterbacks. Whoever runs out there first will be first.

I’m sure he’s kept every note he’s ever taken, and he was a very good note taker. We usually have two or three guys signaling in plays so nobody gets a bead on what we’re...

Those are scary games. Everybody was talking about everything but UAB. Now we’ve got that one behind us. We know a little bit more about ourselves.

He received a ticket for minor consumption. It happened after a group of guys still unknown to him jumped him. He got beat up. The officers that came gave him a citation.

He took advantage of all the work he got in the spring and right now I’m comfortable with him being our center.

That’s not what we expect as a football team. What you saw out there was unacceptable. We’re going to go back to work next week and get it turned around. It seems like we can’t...

This is a group of very, very prideful men as a staff that we’re talking about that loves the program, loves the kids and has worked extremely hard. We just, offensively, haven’t been able to...

So it’s like Auburn and Georgia last year. That’s the exact kind of performance we’re going to need and we’re going to look for.

Us doing something like that, reflecting on all they have been through down there with the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, is very minimal as far as an adjustment on our part. It’s the right thing...

If we win the game, it’s a huge step towards winning the SEC championship. If we lose, it puts us in bit of a chase mode. We’ve been in both spots in the past. But...

We had a meltdown from a kicking game standpoint,

They split the reps [in practice]. We have two quarterbacks. Whoever runs out there first will be first,

In my 13 years, I’ve not had a season like this. I have never had anything that was easily handed to me and this (season) is not easy. We’ll make whatever tough decisions need to...

We need to play a little bit better against the good people,

If you can’t run and move your feet, then you’re useless. I don’t want to be known as the biggest. I want to be known as the best.