We started finding out a little bit about Blake Field’s nerves.

There’s so much hype in recruiting now, people think once they’re recruited they’re going to be great players right out of the box. That doesn’t happen, especially at quarterback. It takes two-to-three years of making...

They’ve had a few ups and downs, been consistent, found a way to win. It’s been one of those years for Barry also where he’s had to replace a lot of guys and get his...

His players responded for him. And that’s the sign of a guy that’s done a great job for a program. And he can kind of look at that, because his players turned it up a...

It is full-speed tackling, and we want to see them compete. But we’re not going to go out there and do a lot of things that’s going to get spread around.

They couldn’t get anything going on offense, but their defense gave us a fit.

We’re glad to have him back. I was one of the guys that said we were going to miss him because he brought a lot to our conference. He brought a lot of interest back....

We threw the ball too much in the Georgia Tech game. That was my fault. We didn’t stick with our running game, and it cost us in the long run.

It really doesn’t make any difference,

One more game (USC vs. Auburn) would have been perfect this year.

We got the game plan in. All we are doing is polishing it and working on special teams. We had a little scrimmage with the underclassmen and it was a good day. We’ll give them...

They’re good players, … but we knew if we got any kind of pressure on them at all they’d throw it up for grabs.

It was a good day of practice. It was the last practice in any pads; tomorrow we will just be in helmets. All of the game plan is in. Everybody is ready to go. It...

This conference tends to build with speed rather than bulk, … It’s very noticeable. If you look at the defensive stats, there are a lot of guys ranked very high.

The more games you play, the more chance you have of playing a bad game on offense. Your defense can play good every week as long as they play hard. It’s a lot easier to...

It will go down as a classic.

Ben was a little different. Sometimes you wonder about homesickness, but he’s really handled it well — a lot better than I would have if I was his age. The players have accepted him. His...

We’ve got a lot of guys that have size, speed and quickness. I always judge our recruiting by linemen and this has been an exceptional year. We’re always looking for guys at defensive line. We...

That’s the problem with the voting. We vote at the beginning of the year and don’t (change) votes at the end of the year. I would hope in the future we would pick the four...

The next few days, he’ll visit a couple teams (to) see if there’s any interest that he’s wanted to get back into the NFL. We’d love for David to stay. He’s done a great job...

He needed to write some papers. I told him we didn’t need him out there these two days. He’ll be out there tomorrow.

We have a couple more curtain calls before the final song. We will have to make another statement the next two-to-three weeks.

We did keep a few guys out of the game to get them healed for next week. They should be back next week.

It’s a little empty feeling,

When a defensive back makes a major mistake like he did stopping on a go route it’s going to show up,

We had our shot at them and we didn’t beat them,

It won’t have anything to do with conferences. It’ll have to do with the players on the field. How they play.

He’s a breath of fresh air in that league.

Respect you have to earn that and we didn’t early in the season. We were forgot about for a while, and we’re kinda moving back up.

We would have liked to have played one of those first five away, but that’s just how the schedule works out. Our players are excited, and we’ll be ready to play.

I had no clue. Just take one of them out and put them in there.

It will probably never happen again. It will be my luck.

Academics are the No. 1 thing. It’s the first thing we tell players when they come to Auburn. They are here to get a degree first and foremost. Once they understand that, they understand that...

a clone of Jason Campbell.

He had grown so fast and so tall. We had to strengthen his stomach muscles. He hasn’t had a problem since.

It was a beautiful sight.

We were not able to finish off drives and execute and put the ball in the end zone. When they have nine men on the line of scrimmage and are playing man coverage, you have...

We threw high passes, we dropped balls, I called the wrong plays. It’s just a mixture of things. You can say we weren’t ready. We didn’t have the emotion that we had the last couple...

That is football. You have got to execute and tonight the kicking game wasn’t there for us. They ran that punt back, we made a mistake but that’s part of it.

I think he’s going to really help us next year. He will be a guy that will have an opportunity to step in and play very early.

It’s a great day. We knew we had a great football team, and it was a great year for us. It makes you feel good for the players because they did so much for us...

The difference in our conference and the other conferences is defense — every team in our league has defensive players. For Jason Campbell and our offense to do what we did to the defenses in...

You’ve got to have a mobile quarterback against a front like theirs, … When they blitz up the middle on 4th and 12, Jason has the presence to get outside and throw sidearm to get...

It’s very vital with the 85-scholarship limit that you do have walk-ons that participate on your special teams because they are so important, … That’s an area where they can come out and contribute. There’s...

No complaints on our part. We’ll go down there and play, and it will make no difference on who wins and loses.

We played a lot of people on offense and defense. We’re going to continue to do that. We got a lot of depth. Last week, we just got in a situation where we couldn’t (play...

Down in Florida, at least we could go north and get away from it. You hear on TV where it’s going to be a week or a month before maybe getting electricity. (But) you’re looking...

They’ve all been consistent. It’s hard to zero in on one receiver. It’s impossible to do.

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.

There’s nobody that can count us out of getting to Atlanta and winning in Atlanta. In the past, we’ve been a pretty long shot, and I don’t think we’re a long shot. I think we’re...