25 Quotes by Denver Johnson

We won't be better because Boomer's gone, but it has forced us to structure some things differently, and I think that will prove good for us.

I found myself the first couple of years that I had to sell things to people. There was a lot of resistance, a lot of resistance on the team and some in the athletic administration.

It has been Boomer's team, sometimes to a detriment. He was making the tackle that someone else should have made. We had guys just think that Boomer would be there.

Our scoring system showed if you turn the ball over it's going to hurt you. Overall, I think the spring was really good. We wanted to have some fun and we did that. We wrapped it up on a positive note.

Our focus is always on the Gateway, and we use the four non-conference games as a chance to evaluate towards that. (Eastern Illinois) will be a challenge for us. We'll know a lot more about ourselves when we get on Saturday.

I was very pleased with the way we played last week. We beat a big, physical Murray State team and we did it soundly.

I was really disappointed on the offensive side of the ball today. We are little watered down right now (in terms of offensive personnel), but overall I thought it was a good day - we got a little something done and lots of film to look at.

The past couple of years I've had other opportunities that were fairly attractive to me, but I'm committed to this. I still perceive this program to have great potential. I think we can do something special here.

We've got three pillars that we're going to try and build this program around. The first is academic integrity. The second is social responsibility. We want good citizens. Third is competitive excellence. When I evaluate our program on those three pillars, I think we're making good progress.