Tom Kopatich Quotations

Nothing is any different. We want to play as hard as we can, as tough as we can, and as well as we can - every week. It doesn't matter who we're playing. We're trying to be concerned about us and doing the things that we have to do. If you worry about yourself, it shouldn't matter. It shouldn't matter who we're playing. We have to have the same approach.

I don't think we played any starters in the second half. If they did play, it was on our special teams. That's what the reserves work hard for in practice, so we can get them some playing time.

Right off the bat, we should have probably scored the first couple of times we had the ball, and we didn't. Then teams start thinking they're in the game and all that other stuff. We just have to get better.

We can't take anything for granted. They are going to come and play hard. They've got tough kids there. They are going to want to beat us after what happened last year.

We all feel a heck of lot better than we have for a couple of weeks. We're going to enjoy the win. The locker room is completely different. Everybody is happy. That's the fun is the winning. They had some fun tonight.

They get tougher each week. Johnston will be way tougher than this team so we have to be ready.

It starts over. They know what they need to do. We had a real good practice Wednesday - maybe one of our best ones of the year.

It looks like they are doing a lot of what they did last year. There is still some of that uncertainty. It's early in the year. A team that has struggled in the past - you never know what they might change to.