This is a great way to send the seniors out and a great way to start the legacy of the underclassmen. We've got a lot of momentum going into the spring. Hopefully our defense steps it up. We all know our offense rolls. So, the combination of that could be great.

He's kind of quiet. When you first get to meet him, you've got to approach him, he won't approach you. I'm actually almost the opposite.

It'll jump-start us into a good spring ball and, hopefully, next year we'll make a lot of noise in the Big Ten. This will be a good jump-start for that.

Every night ... we'd watch film together, or we'd come in late from games together, it was just good because he knew exactly what I was going through. We were doing homework together because we knew we had to get the assignment done before we went on the trip. It was great.

I thought if I worked hard enough, I could play special teams. I thought I was athletic enough that I could at least contribute, run down the field and make a couple plays, hit some people. I had no idea that I was going to be able to play.