I had to let the game play itself. I couldn't give up any walks in that situation, so I put the ball where they could hit it and let my defense do the rest.

We are trying to let some different kids play on the kickoff team, but that's the second straight game we've given up a touchdown. If not for that, we would have been up at halftime.

We were in the situation where we had this game won. And we let it slip away.

To be tested in a game-situation like this in front of 1,500 fans and their great student body, we hadn't seen anything like that. Sure, we needed it. Our players understood when you're under the gun, you have to find an extra gear and dig down and concentrate a little bit harder and we did that in the second half.

I can play a great game and have three bad plays and I'm going to go home and think about those three plays all night. Out of 70 plays, I'm going to think about three plays. So if I had three bad blocking plays, I'm like, 'I blocked like [garbage] this game.'

You promise them a hard practice the next day if they let up. I want them to play hard regardless of the score.