I know we have some big shoes to fill, ... but I'm working hard with Stringer to try to get that done.

It's tough. We wanted to win the Big Ten. Five and three isn't terrible, but it's not where we want to be.

Everything has to be perfect. The first three games we won because we have better athletes. In the Big Ten you can't have mistakes.

We feel like we had a down year last year. We want to come out and prove that we can play with anybody in the Big Ten.

We talked about stopping that at halftime. I think we just had a couple of guys blow assignments.