But I think the one thing is, they obviously made a good impression on those teams. They know there’s nothing etched in granite, in stone, for them to be there. They’re just going to work...

I’d like to have another guy like him and have bookends, … That’s what I’d like to do.

I think he’s progressed each practice. He seems to grasp all the concepts he’s being taught. He understands his assignments, he understands the concepts. Now it’s just a matter of him working extremely hard on...

He told me when we recruited him he wanted to win the Heisman as a running back. I think he’d tell you he’s playing on the right side of the ball now.

It comes across pretty well (on tape). You think there’s a hole and you see them play Auburn and North Carolina and you think the guy might get 15 yards but he only gets about...

I think he has a little bit more speed, a little bit more shake to him than what ‘Bones’ did.

The university has a very stringent Student Code of Conduct. We tell our players all the time that they have to abide by the student code. In these incidents, it didn’t affect any other student...

You want to get your program to the point where every day kids go out and know that they have to compete to get better because if they don’t they know there’s somebody behind them...

The kids competed and nobody lay down. But we’ve got to be able to step it up a little more.

We really liked what we had on our roster. I just didn’t feel the quarterback position was something we needed to address this year.

[Saturday] was more about getting lined up, knowing where you’re supposed to lineup and getting yourself in position to make the tackle. You’re going to find out more when they finally get to put the...

I don’t now if there’s a clear-cut leader. I think three of the four had their moments last year.

He gutted it out, but there are a lot of things he has to work on. He has to learn not to hold the ball so long in certain situations.

We’ll sit down and look at it. I have something in my mind but we’re going to hash it out first. I’ve got a lot of personnel issues to address here.

Cornell liked what he heard back from the league and has decided to pursue this avenue.

We’d like to get him up to about 250, … He’s a guy that has the athleticism to play the run and play the pass equally well.

I think it’s working out very well. It’s good because all five of those guys or all 15 of those guys are in the same room and they’re hearing the same thing. Not that there...

We knew we were going to play him as a linebacker,

When you have a guy like Larry we’ve let people know they’ve got to strain a little bit more [on blocks] because if you get on guys, he has the ability to hit the seams...

I think coming out early like that, he has to really try and showcase himself, especially since he didn’t get to go to the combines. He’s got to make his mark out there with people...

All of them bring something to the table or we wouldn’t have recruited them.

It’s another evaluation process for us as coaches and that’s the message that we’ll convey to them.

The field position that Larry gave us was very big, … He’s a guy who will be missed.

We’re a team. We’re not a bunch of individuals. What everybody has to do is just pick their game up a little bit. It doesn’t matter who is in there. We have confidence in them...

You’re not game-planning for your defense. You’re just trying to install your base protections, your base running plays, your base passing plays.

He moves very well for a man his size. I don’t worry about 40-times. If he’s ever doing a 40-yard sprint on game day, something’s wrong.

I saw him holding his hand and asked if he was all right. He said he was. But you could just see when he went back out there that there was a little bit of...

If they can pick it up and do things, it will make everybody’s job a lot easier.

It’s happened before where all of a sudden you throw a guy in there and you didn’t expect him to go in there and play and all of a sudden you forget about who your...

He’s healthy now, … He’s been punting the ball much better than he had been. He’s got a little more confidence.

I don’t know if he’s all the way back, but I know this, he’s a lot better now than what he was at the end of last season. I think he feels a lot more...

I’m hoping for good results but those could be season-ending injuries.

There’s a bigger transition period for a kicker. You’re used to kicking off a tee in high school. You don’t have the same rush. You don’t get in as many pressure kicks. It takes maybe...

He stuck his hand out and shook my hand and said ‘Thank you,’ and off he went to go and watch film, … I think he knew what was going to take place. I don’t...

Brandon and James are already talking. James says ‘I can’t wait to go against you because now I can hit you and get away with it.

I just wish if Ed wanted to play football he would have come and saw me. We would have definitely given him an opportunity.

It’s just a matter of keeping him relaxed. He doesn’t have to be Superman. He just needs to go out and execute all the plays that he’s been working on this week.

I thought he would fit in better back at safety. I think he was struggling a little bit at the Husky position so we wanted to put him back at strong safety, where he was...

We had a tough time blocking them. We had a tough time tackling them. We didn’t do a good job as coaches. We didn’t do a good job as players.

We’ll try to keep him as fresh as we can.

I like everything about Dennis in terms of what he can do, … I have the utmost confidence that he’ll go out and do a good job. We’ll put a game plan together that we...

This program has tasted success and what these kids want to do is keep that rolling.

When we’ve been really good here, we’ve had guys that have been that way. You go back to when Alfred (Fincher) was here.

I think when you have that it makes other people change what they want to do from a punting standpoint, … Larry has a tremendous amount of confidence back there and I thought he made...

I thought Rob made a couple good catches. He’s had his moments in practice. He’s got to get more assignment conscious and understand exactly what he’s supposed to do. He doesn’t have all the assignments...

Jonathon has overcome quite a bit. It’s [also] a credit to some people in his life who have taken an interest in him and wanted to help a young man who had a difficult upbringing....

Our starters aren’t going to get a free pass not to be on special teams. Even though we have more depth and some people who can do things, our best people are going to play...

I think anybody that watched our punting game this year knew that it was a very inconsistent game to say the least.

I think we have covered all of our needs.

One good thing is I don?t give a (crap) about the statistics this week.