I know we have some big shoes to fill, ... but I'm working hard with Stringer to try to get that done.

We feel like we had a down year last year. We want to come out and prove that we can play with anybody in the Big Ten.

Everything has to be perfect. The first three games we won because we have better athletes. In the Big Ten you can't have mistakes.

We talked about stopping that at halftime. I think we just had a couple of guys blow assignments.

It's tough. We wanted to win the Big Ten. Five and three isn't terrible, but it's not where we want to be.

Our punter was my holder (at Reedley), ... It took him a good month.