Sonny Lubick Quotations

We started out a little sluggish, but they got with it. I thought they responded pretty well.

I felt like we got a lot of things done. I really feel we can be a decent football team.

I feel like we got what we wanted out of this. We're starting to see some real strengths and some real positives. The big thing we wanted was to see the guys block and tackle, and they did a pretty good job.

I don't think we were overconfident. Any time we play a foreign offense like we did, our players know we've got to make some plays and get them in third-and-8 (situations).

He will come out and throw the ball four times in the first two series and he's not going to throw the rest of the game, ... So, we're going to let him throw his first four. And then, we'll worry about his halfback pass he likes to show off once a year. And then, he'll go back to what they normally do.

Jake really helped himself. He will be a guy who is hard to keep out of the lineup next fall.

I thought early on the kids played so damn hard. I thought we had confidence; guys were playing. You can't go out there all day. Sooner or later, they're going to break a couple on you, and they hit a couple at the end.

I thought the quarterbacks did a good job. Caleb, the first couple of drives, moved the team. Caleb was very sound throughout the spring.

It got to be kind of a wild game. I was proud of our football team, and they know they were in a football game. We gave them everything they could handle. We're going to be a damn good football team, and we proved it out there. We can move it; we can stop it. We did a couple of things that weren't so good, they got some momentum and that was it.

Like they said in the old days, we got an old-fashioned butt-kicking. You have to give a lot of credit to Minnesota. We knew coming in they were a big, strong football team, and they sure proved it to us.

Those guys have got to step up and block, not just run the football.

The quarterback is a guy who will win some games, a lot of games before this season's out, because he's very accurate and gets rid of the ball very quickly.

We are confident that Marc will make a full and complete recovery. We have been touched by the outpouring of support and prayers shown to our family by the community and the Ram family. We are fortunate to have had such great medical advice and attention in Fort Collins.

We're not going as fast as far as installation as we have in the past. We're trying to slow it down and see if we can teach a little bit more fundamentals, some of the things we've lacked the last couple years.

We will evaluate our scheme and evaluate some players. Some players can make a big move this week, and really finish strong.

We'll work hard at it. We've got to get better at it; we've got to work harder and get the right guys in there. It's all about basically coaching.

Thinking back through 45 years (of coaching), I haven't seen one as exciting as that with the crowd (nearly full at 32,713), nothing when they were at the 1- or 2-yard line, four downs to go.

Right now, they're all healthy. I think it will help us a little bit. But if things don't work out (in the game), then I won't have any excuses.

They played hard and fought their way back into the game. The game goes back and forth for two quarters, and they were kind of creeping back in the ballgame. We just have enough weapons, and we got some field position on turnovers there in the forth quarter to put the game away.

There were some real plusses for us. Number one was special teams came up big for us tonight. We got the momentum going the right way, ... We had a blocked punt, special teams was worth about 14 points today. That's something we have to have.

I told our team that it might only get the ball once a quarter, so they better make the most of it. Nobody runs that (triple option) offense better than the Naval Academy. I haven't talked a lot about (Navy's) defense. I'm concerned about their offense and there's no use hiding that.

They were precision out there. They were very unselfish. We were having a hard time slowing them down.

They'll be fine. Only time will tell. But whether we won last week or lost, we still have to play Minnesota. I don't put too much stock in a game taking too much out of you. I don't think one game should change your outlook, no matter how big a game it is.

They hit that one right off the bat on us. They opened up the game.

I like him to take those chances. I thought it took a nice play by their guy.

He's the kind of kid you want in your program because not only is he extremely talented, but you never have to worry that you're getting every little bit of effort he has.

He better donate some of his money to CSU when he signs his (pro) contract. He's got the whole package. He doesn't use his bulk to bowl you over as much. He'll make you miss out there and he'll make you miss in a small area and always turn some 3-yard runs into 10-yard runs.

He better donate some of his money to CSU when he signs his (pro) contract, ... He's got the whole package. He doesn't use his bulk to bowl you over as much. He'll make you miss out there and he'll make you miss in a small area and always turn some 3-yard runs into 10-yard runs.