You can imagine what an opportunity it presents us. We're trying, and hoping, to get back. And the program will get back. Maybe it will be after I'm gone, but the program will get back.

It'll be up to the last week before the game before we will do it. As soon as we're sure, we'll make the move so the kids will get used to him. I'll have final say so. We'll do it when we are positive, though.

You ain't going to win 10 games every year. We've already done the impossible. You think anybody will ever do again what we did, 14 years in a row (ending the season ranked in the) top five? You think anybody will do that again? ... Everybody expects that every year and gosh, it just don't work that way.

They need to open the door and give us an opportunity to say no to them.

There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

He saw an opportunity through numbers.