I'm ticked off. Sometimes, you have days where it all sums up to an inefficient day. We haven't had that day yet. Today was the day.

We progressed the other day. Guys were making plays, catching the ball, doing things right. They come to the stadium today and the only people fired up may have been the people here from Middle Tennessee or Southern Miss.

For me to come say 'Yeah, I taught him how to coach,' that would not only be laughable, but inaccurate. He had, in my opinion, that mental and emotional makeup at (age) 18.

Please tell him that we are so very proud of him. And I don't even know how he did today.

Coming out of last spring, we had a lot of confidence in John Parker and what he could do. If Brodie could not have gone the distance, we could have won a lot of games with John Parker.

I think our guys have an attitude about them (heading into the bowl) to play tougher than what they've shown.