This surface is very good. Our players enjoyed it. It's the soft, phony grass instead of that hard stuff. This is the new stuff to play on. It's very good.

Coaches go out with a little bit of strut in their step instead of hanging their heads down if they get clobbered.

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

He contributes a lot, ... He's been a wonderful guy, does everything, weightlifting, been a good teammate for all the guys.

He's a tough, good looking inside linebacker. He looks like those linebackers at Georgia and Tennessee and those other places.