We appreciate the hard work and efforts that David gave to the Auburn football program over the last year. He did an excellent job as our defensive coordinator this past season, and I know he’ll...

We were caught by surprise when we got to the stadium and Brandon had a stomach virus, … He had a 103-degree fever. We were fortunate it was this game.

We’re blocking better, staying on longer, and staying on blocks down the field. It’s all about confidence. It was hard, opening up with two tough teams like that, but we’ve been building it back.

[Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, whose team finished No. 2 in the final polls last season, says he considered voting for Texas, Iowa, Miami and Virginia Tech before settling on Michigan for No. 2 on his...

There was no doubt who was going to win this football game after the first 5 or 6 minutes. Our guys came out and made a statement.

It was a defensive battle,

He’s got great presence on the field, in the huddle, at the line. Even when there’s pressure around him in the pocket, even with six or seven people (rushing) and he’s got to get rid...

I’ve got a subscription to Golf Digest. I may ask them to vote us No. 1, … We’re 13-0. We should be national champions. There’s no doubt about it.

We hadn’t decided about letting him check off [at the line], and decided to go with it Thursday.

[SEC coaches who have played at the Coliseum in recent years said it has a loud crowd, but not as loud as some stadiums in the SEC.] It ‘ s a little bit different environment...

If you get what you think is a really bad call and the guy upstairs refuses to call for a review, at least you would have one in your pocket you could use. If you’re...

We have not executed way we were at the end of last season,

I think he’s overcome that. Tampa Bay is very interested, and San Diego. That’s two of the teams that are really looking hard at him.

It doesn’t make a hill of beans. I remember being at Miami and I don’t think we ever were a Top 10 team (in recruiting) and we won three national championships.

We called practice off on that Sunday and basically said we’ll meet back here tomorrow afternoon, everybody go home and make sure everything’s safe. You don’t realize the devastation that happens. It’s like a bomb...

They’ve had an abundance of talent in the state of Louisiana, and Nick did a good job of keeping it in-state. So I’m envious in some ways, in that ‘ [Miles] is ‘ walking in to all...

It was a good practice. Guys are showing a lot of enthusiasm. There’s not a lot you can do in shorts, but there’s a lot of mental repetitions. I watched the defensive backs today and...

We used last week to our advantage of getting guys healthy. We’ve got almost everything in that we want to do against Arkansas. We’re going into this game healthy and full of speed, a lot...

We average 15-20 more plays than the NFL. We have to examine scenarios that make it better for the players and reducing the number of plays is one of them.

There’s one thing I’ll say. I’d hate to play us.

I’m glad he’s in the Big Ten.

But you’ve still got to be able to run on them some. Three, four times last week, we were right on verge of Ronnie [ Brown ] or Carnell [ Williams ] going 60 yards,...

I always judge our recruiting by linemen. I think this has been an exceptional year.

To me, a national champion is the team that plays the best. We’re not beating teams by two or three points. We’ve pretty much named our score most of the year.

A lot of people wonder why you want a coaches challenge if every play is looked at by the officials. The problem is when you go back and look at situations where there’s a question...

Our defense played hard, we just didn’t do anything with our kicking game. It let us down at times, that’s my fault. We must not have worked enough on it, but we will work on...

You gotta give it to Barry. His last game and he goes out on top. It’s probably only fitting. He’s a good football coach. I’ve told people, ‘He’s going to be in the College Football...

We are proud of Blake Field, … He became our starter with an hour’s notice. He did a great job handling the football.

I think Brandon Cox is going to be a heck of a college quarterback. He’s going to make a name for himself.

This spring, we’re going to concentrate in the area of being very physical. You can’t talk about it; you can’t put it on the blackboard. You have to do it on the practice field. We’re...

You’ve just got to do your best and don’t look back. I never do. I think it made Auburn a better place. Not just football, the entire campus. I hated going through something like that,...

He doesn’t make mistakes,

It’s not over-recruiting. Since Ole Miss, we’ve built our philosophy around running the football. You’ve got to have a running game in order to be successful in college football.

Obviously, when you turn the ball over like we did you can’t beat a team like (Tech), … We have to run the football better. We can’t beat good football teams running like we did.

As coaches, we approach any game the same, whether it’s a bowl game here or in Atlanta or New Orleans. But the thing we want to do is to make sure the guys enjoy it...

Up to this point, our guy was pretty much on target. It’s one of those things, it comes and it goes.

We always win some, we always lose some. This year, we probably won more than we have the last few years. We probably had more success today than we thought we were going to, and...

In the second half, we regrouped and our intensity took over. You can only stay 3 to 4 feet off the ground so long. They were sky high.

We’ll play when we get there, I guess. It’s not our fault that we can’t get down there. You’d love it if this game had been in the day where you could have a little...

Their quarterback did a great job getting the ball downfield. That’s the best offense we’ve seen.

It was a good practice today. We concentrated more on throwing the football. Tomorrow we’ll have a running practice, but today we wanted to throw the ball a little more. There was good enthusiasm. We...

We’re not going to start talking about anything but playing the next game. It’s a good start. It’s a good start.

Somebody asked me who I’d be pulling for. I’ll just have to take the Fifth on that one. I’ll be pulling for both of them. I hope both of them go over 100 yards.

As I told our team, this is over. We start back next Monday morning at 7 o’clock with all the guys coming back minus the seniors. But this will be a good team. We had...

They learned what it was like to lose and get back up. This year was about consistency, and I thought we started playing well mid-way through the year and just got better and better as...

Their defensive front is the best we’ve seen,

There’s probably more question marks on this depth chart than we’ve had the last few years.

I get off the bus, and he’s the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

It was a good victory for us, … It wasn’t one of our best games, but we had some great individual performances.

[Carnell Williams, Auburn: The Cadillac, 5-11, 204, is a versatile back with the speed to get outside and the strength to pound it when necessary. A workhorse when he needs to be, he’s had four...