But if you can sustain a streak against somebody, I think it does have some effect. In a particular case where you've lost to somebody a few times in a row, you need to prove to people you can beat them.

His (Madison County) high school coach did a great job of coaching him on the fundamentals of blocking. That's been an easy thing for him.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

I'm proud of them, it's been business as usual. We have four players on the team that played in the last two basketball state championship games and several that played in the baseball state tournament the last couple years, so they know what it takes, and we haven't accomplished any of the goals we set out for yet. It's just a reward for the first four games.

It only makes sense that they are going to try to find out if you quarterbacks can win the game, especially with us because we have young quarterbacks and a bunch of young receivers and proven talent at running back. It's a work in progress. At least we'll come out of the month of September having passed that test. Beyond that we'll wait and see.

It's a great thing in recruiting, playing our first game on national television at a time when there is no other game. But I don't know if this game can get much bigger. Florida State and Miami kind of speaks for itself. Guys know if they want to be famous just make a big play in this game.

You don't want to get in a mode where you have to rebuild your team that way.

You start putting these last few classes together, and the quality that's in there, and we feel it has set us up for a pretty good run.

You look at our classes every year and we've never gotten overly caught up in all of that. But as long as we get guys who fit in our system well and meet the needs that we have on our football team, we'll be pleased with that.

We fell probably one player short. I'll take responsibility for that. Sometimes with timing and the way you set things up.... sometimes you guess wrong.