David Bailiff Quotations

He needs to be the committee. Heck, he's big enough to be the committee. I do like the way he is approaching the season. He wants to be the feature back.

I told him he never instructed me on how to handle any hurricane contingency plans.

We absolutely can't wait for conference. This is going to be a total focus week around here.

Our guys have been working since December to get ready for those 11 opportunities (to play). We don't want to miss one. We're excited that we get to play A&M.

Our job as coaches is to get them back down to earth. They have got to understand how important this South Dakota State game is to us.

We did good, addressed some needs. Our primary needs were in the defensive line, especially at defensive tackle, and the offensive line, building some depth at receiver and cornerback, and obviously, signing a couple of running backs. I think we got those things accomplished.

We not only wanted great talent, but we wanted players a lot of different ages (to balance class numbers). As a group, we got tremendous size, height and speed.

We're developing personality. And quite frankly, I'm really proud of what these young men are doing right now.

This game boiled down to us having too many penalties. That's keeping their drives alive and that's hurting the cause. I don't mind aggressive penalties, but those we had a lot that weren't very smart.

Usually going into game four you know what your opponent is going to do. But we have really been off balanced as far of what game plan we can plan for.