14 Quotes by Gary Clark

We're excited about it. It's a great opportunity for both our team and players as well as our fans.

The task force is closely monitoring the situation as we head into the planting season. While March has provided us with a good amount of rain, conditions are still at a critical stage. The message has to go out to western, northern and central Illinois that we're not out of the woods yet. We could get a month or two of recovery, then be back at it.

This came somewhat out of the blue. I knew Larry was looking at his options, as any coach does at any time. Obviously, things moved pretty quickly in the last 24 hours.

There's a lot of worry. We have seen some improvement over the winter, but soil moisture is nowhere near where it ought to be. Things are not shaping up for a good year at all.

In my mind, we didn't take the step we thought we would take this year. Beyond that, we have to see the big picture and in that context, Larry has strung together some winning seasons in a row that, quite honestly, haven't happened a lot here.