Fall practice to us is like spring training to the football team. This is where roles are defined.

I have not seen any lack of confidence in these guys. Winning is nice. It obviously feels a lot better than losing. It’s what we try to do every single day.

Paul Burnside, what can you say, he just continues to have great relief outing for us.

I was real happy with (Brett) Butts, he mixed his pitches well. We played offense today. Any time you can get eight runs off of eight hits, you did a nice job of playing offense....

You have to credit Chris because he’s tried to work through it. He just has a hard time getting all his work in. We just want to see Chris be at 100 percent. Hopefully, he...

I thought our kids really had good approaches at the plate against some pretty good Kentucky pitching. I was proud of the way our kids played.

Up and down the lineup, we didn’t have enough quality at-bats.

I was very proud of how we battled back in that ball game, but when you are walking people and making errors, you are not going to win.

We feel as he gets back to full strength there’s going to be some real potential there.

Vanderbilt, since Tim has been there, they’ve been built around their pitching. They did a really good job of helping those kids develop and they’ve done a good job of recruiting their pitching.

I had no idea they were on allotment or whatever they call it. I thought you could get all you could get, as much as you wanted but evidently not, now that I found today,

I was very pleased with how composed our kids were in another extra-inning game. We had a lot of first-year Auburn players come to the plate in that tenth inning and I thought we handled...

It’s a matter of having guys relax and not try to do so much. They just need to take a deep breath and try to make good contact. Sometimes, everyone is trying to deliver that...

The purpose is to facilitate right turns off the Memorial Bridge for people heading to the downtown area. The work done for the cut-through had a specific purpose, and it was done by the state....

When he gets on, it allows us to steal some bases, hit-and-run, do a lot of things in the small game. It really helps our offense.

I’m not down on Evan Crawford or Johnny Thompson. Both of them had to scuffle tonight for the first time in a long, long time.

It’s important to play national name schools like Florida State and Arizona State. It’s important to try to get at least one home schedule series a year with a national- caliber team.

We’ve been presented with an opportunity to regain access, and we will make the most of it.

That was a big-time at bat from Josh. I knew he had a hit when it left his bat.

He will be limited. Where he might have been available twice in a weekend, he may only be available once. But having him once is better than not at all.

It was a matter of priorities. They had the school parking lots all torn up and had other commitments. They felt the necessity to take care of those projects first.

That’s part of being a freshman. He’s had some really good bats at times, some really bad at-bats. It’s part of the learning process.

We’ve got a chance to win this series, and I think our kids will come out ready to go. We need to pitch well.

I am very excited about our 2006 schedule, … It is important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to prepare us for the rigors of SEC play. This schedule is built to challenge us right...

He’s not felt very good since he threw Saturday. His arm feels great. The problem is he has some pain in his side.

I think it is very important to give the Auburn people in the Montgomery area an excellent chance to see our young club play right in their neighborhood. I am very excited to have an...

They reflect the opinion of Democratic activists. But I don’t think you can extrapolate from the results the thinking of the general public.

We’re certainly playing better. Whether that’s just having gotten some games under our belt and guys feeling more settled or not, I really don’t know. I know we’ve pitched better, and certainly when you pitch...

It’s just part of the process. I just look in the mirror and think about what I can do to make our club better. I try not to get frustrated.

We did a good job of playing offense three days in a row. I thought our kids had good approaches at the plate. (Sunday), just like Friday, we had all three phases of the game:...

Obviously we are very pleased that we’re below the national average in both syphilis and gonorrhea, … We work very closely with our local health departments to provide educational messages and reach the appropriate population.

They’re disappointed to lose the game. You go into the weekend expecting to win every game, and our kids played their guts out and competed their butts off. And they came up short against a...

Every one of the kids that was in the lineup today has played well. I’m not going to make lineup changes after one night of us not doing a very good job of making adjustments.

All the credit goes to our kids. What a great job after a rough first game, and it started on the mound. Evan Crawford was really good and he did an outstanding job of getting...

We’re certainly playing better. Our pitching is better and that gives you a chance to win any game. When your pitching is better, it gives your offense a chance to just go and play offense.

They told us an extra day might help him be more 100 percent.

He really drove that ball. I didn’t think it was going to get out. I thought it was going to be a double, but it just stayed up in the air a little too long.

I am very excited about our 2006 schedule. It is important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to prepare us for the rigors of SEC play. This schedule is built to challenge us right away,...

As deep as their outfield was playing there, you’ve got to take a shot to score there. I’d rather make an error of aggression than passivity.

Credit (Lance) Cole for doing a really nice job. He didn’t try to get us out with harder stuff and we did a poor job of making adjustments to what he was doing to us.

We felt there was a need to get Democrats from western Maryland together. There was a feeling that state Democrats tend to ignore western Maryland.

We know how good they are on the mound, and they’ve been swinging the bats of late.

As you get older, you become more consistent. With a first-year player, every day is an adventure. You never know which guys are going to show up. I wouldn’t say I get frustrated –It’s just...

As the record indicates, we’ve been fairly inconsistent. We’re capable of beating anybody in the country and capable of losing to anybody in the country. That has been the consistent pattern with this club.

I am pumped to play at Arizona State. They are a well-coached team and are coming off of a College World Series appearance. They will return a three-game series in 2007 and it is important...

Paul Burnside was really the story today. He has really thrown well of late and he followed it up today with another outstanding outing. He got after and it and did a tremendous job. If...

The effort and the way we competed for 18 innings today was outstanding. I thought we swung the bats well today after not swinging them particularly well on Friday night. I thought we pitched extremely...

What an outstanding pitching performance by Clarence Nicely. He came out and dominated the strike zone and really got us into the game. Clarence came into a very hostile South Alabama environment and pitched his...

Chris has been good the last two weekends for us on Sunday. We had to take him off Friday and move him back to allow him to get his work in between starts. He doesn’t...

You’ve got to invest in your guys. You have to give them a chance to fail. This is a game of failure. We’ve just got to stay positive with them. We believe in our guys.