The guys have made nice progress. I'm very confident and comfortable in the way they're playing. But there's not much separation there to say that one guy's better than the other.

I didn't find out (that Holt had left) until Peter called me.

I know a lot of words, but I don't really know what to say. It's just astounding. It's devotion, people that care, it's unique ... Coach Corso did a wonderful job and everybody up here involved in it in any way did just a wonderful job, including Mother Nature.

I really don't know if we're be able to run the ball real well until our tight ends grow up a little bit. Until then, pass protection and throwing the ball is what we're going to be about.

In six years, that's our best home performance. ... This is the best game we've played at home, top to bottom, inside-outside.

I have no question that defensively we're going to be a team that has not lost a beat.

They were there. They were disappointed. We wanted to get to single-digits with minutes left. If we could have just kept the drive alive ... It was a wasted opportunity. It was a good game, but a wasted opportunity.

They want to run the ball. They've got a nice-looking quarterback (senior Zeke Dixon), but this is a team that's a lot more conservative on offense than it is on defense.

I've known E.J. since he was knee-high to a grasshopper. I've stayed in touch with Dave and seen E.J. grow into a fine young man with an excellent feel for coaching.

It's been coming for a while since the reduction of scholarships. This conference has a very strong sense of itself, because of the coaches who have been here for a long time. The nature of the game now, especially in the west, is the throwing game. It's a game of space, which takes some of the physical aspects out of it.