13 Quotes by David Elson

What he's doing is showing all those guys that either aren't in now or that are going is that there's great competition. He's raising the level and raising the bar, and everybody's gotta step up and be ready to compete.

Foster had two legitimate Conference USA offers from Tulsa and Memphis, but he stuck with us.

We've fluttered around with turnovers (earlier this season) and need to keep that under control.

He's been a two-year starter there and is certainly working on improving his game. We're looking for some depth there and someone who can challenge him.

It definitely made us limited on some things. Philip Bates has shown, in the time that he's been able to get in there, that he's a strong back that gets positive yards, and he's hard to bring down.

We'd like nothing better than to have people from all parts of our community come out and get involved in this. We appreciate what our fans mean to this program.

We've just scratched the surface in being able to communicate with him so that he can play our defense. Right now, we're relying mostly on the written word I'd personally like to take basic sign language lessons and continue to develop better ways to communicate with him.

The top three backs are out, so that right there is proof that we're gonna need as many as we can possibly have. That's crazy when you think about it, but it can happen very easily because we're gonna run the football, so we just have to build the depth. I think we've really been able to do that this spring.

The word 'finish' is a popular word around here, back to 2002. It's just a mentality of playing every play like it's your last, and we came out and were a little satisfied with how the first half of it went. We have to learn that when you have someone down, you gotta finish them off.