Ed Orgeron Quotations

That's the amazing thing. We've had some of our best practices this week. We are hoping that some of the families who have evacuated to our area will be at the game Monday. So it may turn out to be a positive for us.

When a recruit comes in or commits, we lay out everything all the do's and don'ts and conditions of that (scholarship offer). We have to protect ourselves. Protect the program.

If I could create a nose tackle, it would be him.

Guys are moving to Memphis, Houston or northern Louisiana. We are going to keep a close eye on where they go.

Our run defense has not done well, and there is no excuse for that. We aren't fitting well, and we have a couple of new players in there, who aren't as good as the guys who are injured. On offense, our passing game, including the protection, is not where it needs to be.

He operates well, threw the ball well. He's more of a pocket passer who can run our protection and run our systems.

I think we need to get back to the basic fundamental parts of our offense that I brought with us from USC, ... I was able to spend some time in California with Coach Carroll and those guys. Hopefully we can work out some of the kinks we have on offense.

Justin Sparks had an opportunity to show us what he could do, but he's been really inconsistent. We will continue through the week with the guys that we have, chart them and see who does the best job, then play that guy.

Robert had his chance, ... He may have his chance again, but right now, I feel Michael Spurlock is the better quarterback. It was obvious tonight.

Actually, it was a combination of all three of those things. Our offense is designed to be able to run the football against any defense we face. We just didn't do that very well in our first game. So we went back to the basics and looked at some things, and hopefully we'll have it corrected by Saturday.