Dan McCarney Quotations

We're still doing some good things. But the stat that's more telling than any of them in college football is taking care of the ball or getting takeaways on defense.

We're not helping ourselves. We're not complementing one another. That's one of the things we've got to do. That's just poor performance. We've got to take advantage of those plays and make something happen instead of turning right around and giving the momentum and confidence to that football team.

One of the keys is for us to go over and make it a four-quarter game. If we can do that, then we'll have a shot. We've done it here in Ames the last few times, but we surely haven't over there.

I don't know that, man for man and top to bottom, we have the speed that TCU has. But we do see speed in the Big 12.

I don't know who the starting kicker's going to be.

I believe there still is lots of good to Jason Berryman, and that's what makes it even harder to say good-bye and part ways. If you continue to make mistakes and make us look bad, you are going to do it on your time and not mine.

I can't say that. There's been a lot of great ones here. I know we beat a real class program, a real good program, but I don't know if it's the biggest win.

He won't be ready. It's just a day-to-day thing, trying to get his knee back. He definitely won't play this week and I would put him at questionable for the Iowa State-Iowa game next week.

He is as good as there is in the Big 12 and one of the best long snappers in the country. I don't know if I've been around a young man who takes more pride in his job and his role on the football team than Landon Schrage.

He missed the last three days of practice. He'll be (available) next week.

We made lots of mistakes. They did a better job of coaching and playing in the first half than we did. We had to turn that around in the second half and we did.

Last year it was a fact that there was a gap between the North and South. But there have been years in the past when the North has dominated. I know that Iowa State is going to do everything we can to cut down on the disparity between the North and South.

We just ask that you are not recording and filming practices.

We'll do a lot of positive things in the future around these two guys.

Loyalty is uncommon, unconditional and uncompromising. Every winning team has it.

I was just getting out of a shootaround in Milwaukee when I found out. I took out my insoles (from my shoes) and I was out of there.

We'd better be good and be at our best as coaches and players.

We had to be the most improved team in the country from Week One to Week Two, and we played that way (Saturday).

We had to be one of the most improved teams in the country from week one to week two if we were going to have a chance. That's the way we played today.

We have to cut down on some of the hits on the quarterback. We know when people keep blitzing, they're going to get to you sometimes, but we can't go four and five sacks per game every Saturday because sooner or later, somebody's going to hit Bret from the blindside.

Dobbins can be much better than last year. At this time last year, we didn't know where Dobbins would play - whether it would be as a starter or a backup. We didn't desert him; we worked with him, and he ended up being defensive newcomer of year.

There's no question he's one of the top recruiters on my staff. He's earned this.

There's nothing magical. They're just things we do, variances of drills we do. It's not always the exact same thing, but it's always a tempo setter at the beginning of practice. It helps our defense get in the mindset of being aggressive.

It's a big win for all of us at Iowa State. Sixth in eight years (against Iowa). I think we have a program that is here to stay for a long time.

It's a great day to be a Cyclone.

It's been a long time coming. It's about time, I guess.

It's poor judgment. We got off to a bad start and it sickens me, it upsets me, it disappoints me and it frustrates me. There's not a Division I staff in the country that puts in more time to send the message.

The administration at Iowa State has been very good overall about trying to help me, but I can assure you one of my first goals with the new administration coming in here is to try to improve everything for my staff.

I know there's real risk involved in this. Something could go wrong and somebody will say we should have never brought him back.

If we bring our 'B' game or our 'C' game, it's going to be a long day for the Cyclones.

I don't regret bringing him back. This program had an impact on him in a lot of positive ways. He did some good things for us, but he also did some things to really tarnish our program.