It was tough on all of us. Nobody on the team had experienced anything like it before in our lives. All he talked about was defense and how it was going to win games. You heard it before, but nobody really believed it. As time went on, we bought into it.
Back when we were 3-6 in conference and had just lost to Texas, we had a team meeting and decided we would shock the world. No one outside of this family, this team believed in us. It made us what we are today, and we've been rolling ever since.