46 Quotes by Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

We didn't have a power back in the past quite like him.

There are no weaknesses. You go position-by-position with them, and they are strong across the board.

This will put more speed on the field.

With eight returning starters on both sides, we have a little more experience to take in a setting like that. Probably very few people realized Utah was a BCS-caliber team at that time, and that wasn't much fun. ... The biggest plus is maturity and experience, which we couldn't claim at a lot of positions last season.

Yes, we take care of our kids, but we don't do anything outside of NCAA rules.

We certainly think that's big. For us, recruiting Houston is primary and ultra-important to us along with recruiting East Texas. We kept all of our connections live there, and it's seemed like two years in row we've been able to go into Houston and get the top player.

We did a little bit against each other and worked a little bit on Clemson today. It was good preparation and they came back pretty good from last night's workout. We started subtly working on Clemson yesterday and today.

Are we there yet? I can't say that, but we're a lot closer than we were. Hopefully we'll take another step this year.