Paul Ernest Quotations

We didn't throw a lot, but when we did, we were successful,

Hampton saw some weaknesses we had and exploited them for a while. We knew we had weaknesses and they found them. They hurt us running the ball up the middle, but we got that corrected and later in the game we held them pretty good.

I thought Jay did a great job. Of course he made some mistakes, but what was impressive was that he made the correct reads and got the ball to the right guys. Of course it helped that we were never in the position that we had to throw the ball, we threw it only by desire.

We got a lot of the guys into the action and they all produced. I'm pleased at where our offense is heading into the season.

It picked us up some. It was a real good win for us.

It's not going to be that big an adjustment for us. We're in a tough league now and we've scheduled games in the past against some of the others that will be in our new district. They (Arkansas Activities Association) wanted to correct some of the disparity in numbers in Class 2A-and they did that. But now the disparity is in Class 3A and we're still a part of it.

It's not going to be that big an adjustment for us, ... We're in a tough league now and we've scheduled games in the past against some of the others that will be in our new district. They (Arkansas Activities Association) wanted to correct some of the disparity in numbers in Class 2A-and they did that. But now the disparity is in Class 3A and we're still a part of it.

In years past people would put eight or nine in the box to shut down our running game. But we spent a lot of time and money during the off-season making sure that doesn't happen again. We traveled around quite a bit trying to learn something about spreading the field on our opponents and I think it all paid off for us Friday.

I'd take that every game this season. I thought we played defense really well at times and not so well at others. There is still room for a lot of improvement on that side of the ball.