I've been with some pretty decent teams here, ... but the difference is we have leadership across the board at all positions, something we lacked in the past.

Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.

We have some great senior leadership and real exciting newcomers. We look to be pretty strong in some of the shorter relays. Being a new program, we just have to wait and see.

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

We have made it pretty clear to the government leadership we are now at a point where we would like to be taken out, and we think most of our partners do.

It's his time. We need his leadership because we're pretty young across that front line. We've put a lot of pressure on him since the bowl game. I told him this is your D-line and this is your time, so take it over.