One of our assistant coaches, Lou Holtz, had a bet that Keyes would not get 25 yards. We skunked 'em.

That saved one of my assistant coaches; that's all that did when he fumbled the ball. I'm not going to tell you the assistant. He shouldn't have done that.

We've wanted to come here for a while. One of our assistant coaches (Russell Ware) is from Hawaii.

I've never gotten over that one. We were much better than Stanford. But we changed our offense to an option type thing. We were running the Wishbone! We could have put our hands on three national championships.

It was scary, but my rational for not taking a timeout before that, even though my assistant coaches almost had a heart attack, was that we are in the playoffs and we need to get used to this type of adversity. I had confidence in them. They were lacking some confidence, but we worked through that wave.

Not only is Coach Pearl one of the very best coaches in the nation, but more importantly, he has become a great ambassador for our university during his tenure at Tennessee.