Dan Hawkins Team Quotations

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

We use about 40 personnel groups on offense per game. I want every player on this team to feel valued and loved. If they don't, how are they going to be motivated?

All of those other guys were working really hard to get it set up. We always look at special teams as a chance to get something big done. It's just not a pause between offense and defense. All of that work and attention to detail comes into play, and you have to have a guy who is talented and fast, which (Jones) is.

We can watch every team play one game. (But) obviously, I can go to all my kid's games. I can go to as many as I want. That's not only the Bishop Kelly kids but whoever they play,

They'll be, in general, bigger faster and stronger. That typically is the case when you play teams particularly from the SEC. Up front is usually where you see a bigger size advantage.

They'll be, in general, bigger faster and stronger, ... That typically is the case when you play teams particularly from the SEC. Up front is usually where you see a bigger size advantage.

Q is just so doggone speedy. He's one of the fastest guys on our team and to be able to get the ball in his hands with some space is a pretty good thing for our team.

Q is just so doggone speedy, ... He's one of the fastest guys on our team and to be able to get the ball in his hands with some space is a pretty good thing for our team.

You've got a terrible tragedy, and everybody's trying to piece their lives back together, ... Everybody's got their own circumstances to deal with. It's not so much about what he can do for the team, but more what the team can do for him.

When you have those questions ... or last year when they asked, 'Did it surprise you that your team did so well?' No, it didn't surprise me. We kind of reload every year -- and we try not to assume anything.

They did an awesome job. His team executed.

If we beat Georgia Saturday, trust me, the headline Sunday is: 'Can you beat two BCS teams back to back?' ... No matter what happens, two minutes after Georgia, I'm going to say, 'Guys we got Oregon State. You better flush it.'

(Riddle) has a tremendous amount of passion for it, ... A lot of guys out there don't want the stigma of being a special teams coach. They see themselves as an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator.

Hopefully it adds a little spice and adds a little diversity and will be something new for teams to go against as well as fans to see.