Dale Lennon Quotations

We're going to have 80-plus guys practicing, and it looks like we have the potential for a solid team.

With the nutritional information that is out there, these guys are eating healthier and it's not all bad weight.

We're not changing any of our goals. I'm hoping for a typical North Dakota team that plays within itself and doesn't make mistakes.

Mac Schneider went down with an injury. The first guy Tyler went against, if I remember right, was an All-American nose guard. Fortunately, we had the lead.

Last year, we started to see the potential he possessed.

He has as much athletic talent as any offensive lineman we've had here. It's just a matter of developing the final package.

Going into spring ball, the strength of the program may lie on the offensive side. It's going to be a pretty competitive spring on the offensive side of the ball.

It isn't a big surprise. I think it was kind of anticipated that this would happen.

Our start was very good. The first 10 minutes were pretty impressive.

That definitely served as some incentive for our offense.

I stressed the point at halftime that we had 110 yards in penalties and Duluth had 100 total yards of offense. I told our guys that if we kept that up, we were going to have a hard time winning the game.

We'll put a full rush on the punt team to establish protection and put a little stress on the snapper.

Tyler is a story of perseverance. He came in as a walk-on, and even then we weren't sure if we had enough room for him to be here. But he had that desire to be on the team. And my philosophy is if a player really wants to be here, we'll give him a shot. He's been patient enough to pay his dues.

Today was a good day. We passed that non-conference test.

Today was a good day. I was happy with our offense, defense and special teams. It was our most complete game of the season.

You look for guys in the 280-290 range, players who look like they can carry 300-plus comfortably, and you look for athletic ability. We do a lot of movement and run a lot more screen passes in our offense than St. Cloud does. Our linemen have to run and pull more.

You have two highly competitive teams and there was a lot to play for. But we lost control of our emotions for a while. Hopefully, this will help us down the road because each game now becomes more significant.

We are a strong football team and what we did in the third quarter (offensively) gave us our footing again.

Brady is in shape. He's confident in running the ball.

There still are a lot of battles going on with the offense. We don't have a position on offense where the No. 1 spot is settled.

As a coach, you always worry about the distractions of the week and keeping your feet on the ground.

If you look at our numbers, the play of our quarterbacks was very impressive. They made the right reads on their passes.

In the first half we did a lot of things that were uncharacteristic of us. It was a very emotional game, and at the half, I just tried to bring everyone in check. We wanted that emotional excitement, but not to the degree that it was.