Chris Boden Quotations

I'm always juggling 20 things at one time. I look forward to being on the field with the guys. I look at it as a break. I get out of the office and get away from the phone. I go out there and coach football for two hours a day, which is what I truly love.

Grunt work, hard labor - that's what we're looking for. We can put our guys to work. We want it to be challenging.

Wade is probably our best athlete on the perimeter. He did some good things tonight, and Mike Stamps did some good things. We need to find a way to make the bigger plays, because right now we simply aren't getting them.

We're excited about going into conference. Our non-conference schedule was a tough one, and that's good. We wanted to get better for conference, and playing tough teams like St. Cloud will certainly make us better. Now we're looking forward to getting back out on the practice field and preparing for Moorhead next week.

We're going to be a very young football team. We're bringing in over 40 freshmen which I think is a good thing. We have very good football players that are here now and that we'll count on to play. It will be exciting to see how fast they learn and how they jell as a team.

They (St. Cloud) are a very good football team. They play hard. They have big, strong athletes all over the field. They're very deserving of their No. 13 ranking.

At halftime, we felt we had a chance. We had our chances in the second half. We capitalized on the fumble recovery and scored, but we couldn't keep it going.

I'm excited about the staff. I like to think positively and change is a positive. The new guys will bring new ideas and new energy. They will generate a lot of positives for us.

I like a fast tempo in practice but we have to slow some things down. We're teaching the players when to go hard and when you can back off. We're lean everywhere. We have just seven offensive linemen and the defensive line has had injuries. Running back and linebacker have the most depth and that isn't a ton right now.

I'm looking forward to getting this whole team together. We've asked a lot of the guys that are here and they've worked hard. They can't wait to show the freshmen the way things are going to be.