I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.