Bobby Hauck Quotations

I don't grade (the quarterbacks) in the press, but the best players play. Cole doing a good job is good for our football team. That's great. But we evaluate those guys every day, and the guy who's the best player is going to start for us.

He was covered. It's double-edged - when you're playing yourself, you'd like to see the corner make the play and the receiver make the catch. Now you celebrate the receiver and then you get back to work with the corner.

Jake's a good tackler. That's how guys who walk onto your program find their way onto the field, and that's the benefit of going live out here and watching them play.

Jason's got an injury that guys have played with in the past. We're going to treat him through the week, and try to let him throw Thursday and Friday and see if he can go Saturday.

We dropped some balls, the kicking game wasn't very good.

Which, as many times as they threw it (49), is impressive. They've got to be feeling good about their offensive line. Houston looked like they were unable or unprepared to handle all the things Oregon threw at them. The 38 points could've been a lot more.

We came out of our first eight days of spring practice relatively healthy. We're not as sharp as we need to be, but I really like our work ethic. I think we are ahead of schedule at this point.

Tight end is another position where we are young. I kind of group them with the offensive line. That's a position we need to develop and it needs to come along.

We anticipate the Oregon running backs to get the ball a little more than they did last week.

The one time they did get down near our end zone, we just weren't going to let them in.

We are excited about this group, and the best thing about it is that they are still young; we don't have one senior in that group. Losing Shane MacIntyre is going to be a blow. The group of players has played a whole bunch. We're deep there, they all run well, and they have good size. The more reps they have the better they are going to become.

We've got a couple guys hurt, but we'll be all right by the end of spring practice. We'll have everybody back except for Jeff.

We'll have to run the ball. Balance has been our thing, and that will be our plan. We will adjust to what happens on defense.

The receivers did a nice job. It was fun to see young guys get their first catches.

We just had our lunch handed to us by a real talented, well-coached football team. We couldn't handle their front four on defense. It starts with them. We just flat couldn't handle them.

We weren't getting Cole ready to play last fall, so it wasn't like he got a bunch of reps. They pretty much had the same time (in the offense).

We missed a couple of tackles, it looked like. It looked like we didn't get off a couple of blocks, and they got out on us. Our containment guy got a little out of position, and we let (Stewart) outside and we couldn't catch him.

This a great opportunity to play against one of the best football programs in the country and to test ourselves against a team from the Big Ten Conference. Obviously we will have our work cut out for us.

This (Oregon program) is a little different beast than the Oregon and Oregon State teams of the early '90s.

It's good for our down-the-line kids and our freshmen to get a chance to play, because as the fall wears on, they're not going to get much opportunity. Then we could get in a situation where at the end of the season, we might need them. The more live reps we can get them now, the better.

The offensive line is an area in which we need to improve from what happened last year, and there were a lot of things that contributed to that. I like what I've seen so far this spring. This is the one position on our team where we are extremely young, but I believe talented. This is probably the one area that we've made the most progress since day one of spring practice.

The best thing he did was he took care of the football. He moved the chains. He hit some passes under pressure, which we also needed to do to get them out of their blitz game. When we did that, they were kind of out of answers.

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out. It's the No. 1 rush defense in the league, being our defense, against the No. 1 rush offense (Idaho State). It's the No. 2 rush defense, being their defense, against the No. 3 rush offense in the league. So something's got to give. It may be the team that throws the ball best wins the game.

In those years, Oregon and Oregon State were trying to get bowl-eligible, have a winning record, crack the upper half (in Pac-10). Now, they're in the top half every year. They expect to go to bowls. They're looking at being nationally ranked.

If Cole ends up playing Saturday, we're fully confident in his ability to lead the offense. He doesn't get enough credit for being as good of a runner as he is. He also has a good understanding of our offense.

You wish you had a crystal ball, where you could predict the future and predict what's going to happen next fall.