John Brady Quotations

We've agreed to the game, and we've sent the contract. We look forward to continuing our series.

We still think Tyrus will be ready to go. He did all he could do and he felt a little pain, which is going to happen. He took himself out of contact and he'll come back and try to go a little longer.

There is no question in my mind that Tyrus will be successful. When Tyrus came out of McKinley High School, I don't think anybody in this room thought he would be one of the top five players in the NBA draft.

While maintaining our high areas, we will need to focus on those areas that have declined and look for ways to improve,

We're going to the Final Four. That's where it all is. But when I was just talking with Glen walking down the hall, he agreed with me. For some reason, this doesn't seem like the end to me. Maybe there's something more in store for this team.

We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

We want to see the figures, refinery runs and all the others. There will be a decent draw in products, especially gasoline.

We decided we'd get the ball to Phil to make plays, and he made many big plays. His yards after a catch, which were at least 10 or more, were just amazing.

We didn't think he was playing as well as he was capable. He did get in some early foul trouble, but I don't think he was as mentally sharp as we needed him to be.

We've seen a lot of index money come into the market and I expect that to continue, taking us higher.

When he let it go, I just felt confident it was going in. I call him the silent assassin because he doesn't say much, but when it's time to deliver he can do that. He's hit seven or eight of those in his career.

We're shortening the competitive segments in practice to try to keep an edge, but at the same time try to avoid an injury.

Let's be honest, what are we? Twelve and five? We've played 17 games. I think we ought to reserve those kind of judgments and statements to much later down the road.

Secondly, Tyrus can't go to a bad team in the NBA and make that team better. That would be the worst environment for him. He's 19 years old and would have to go to a veteran team. He's not ready to go and be a dominant player, not emotionally or physically.

(Ole Miss) just did everything that was necessary, but our team made plays down the stretch. When we lost the lead, I thought several players stepped up and did things well.

Ole Miss finds a way to stop people in their tracks, and now they're playing at home. I'm sure we'll get their best effort, because they need to win.

Old Mill is a very good team. We just went on these stretches where we couldn't score. It's tough to keep coming back from 10 down against a good team like that.

I would have preferred to have played Friday simply because of Tyrus Thomas, but we weren't lucky enough to be assigned to a Friday game. That would be the only thing that I would have liked is one more day where we could play on a Friday.

If we could all these people to come to our game tonight, we'll fill it up.

I didn't really make a comment or think the game was over until the nine-second mark. That's when I realized we were going to win the game.

I don't know for sure. We could've been better. Or we could've been not as good. You never know.

I don't know why everybody's talking about me going to North Carolina State. I never said I was going there.

I am really proud of what our team was able to do tonight. This was good for our team to execute down the stretch and take care of the ball.

I am very aware of what I have and I appreciate what people have done for me to this point. But I also look at what other coaches have done and how they've been compensated, and I want to move forward in a fair and responsible way.

I anticipate us doing well in the tournament. I like our team. We were able to win three games and a half without Tyrus.

Certainly our team has a nice confident way about it right now. The execution we showed tonight and the way we shot the ball and rebounded the ball was quite good. I can't pay enough compliments to these three guys here and the rest of our team.

I give him a lot of credit for showing that kind of discipline.

If I had to vote for the SEC Coach of the Year today, I'd vote for Bruce Pearl.

Funds and trend-followers who were short are getting in the market, and that?s why it is going up, too.

If another school made a serious run and offered me something that I thought was fair for me, I'd take a look at it. But what I'm not going to do is manufacture something to make somebody listen to me. I will never play one school against another.

I don't sense it as a burden for this team to carry. It's an added bonus. ... If we can bring some people along and make them feel better from our experience ... we've got some big arms, and we'll take all of them in.

Glen has improved. Losing the weight has helped him. As a coach, you're always trying to push your players, but he has been pretty receptive to the things that we're trying to teach him.

Glen Davis could never get into the rhythm he had last night or the way he finished the year.

Glen could never get in the rhythm he did for us last night.

Glen told me a couple of times that he's excited to play tomorrow. I want to control that feeling a little bit and don't let it get too out of hand where he's too excited to play. Certainly, I think our team will be ready to play.

If we see softening figures for demand, then it could take the market down. Hurricanes affected supplies and the demand side was roaring, but now production is coming back online and we're seeing demand erode.

He's beautiful, isn't he? You try to get serious with the team, and Glen will break that down in a heartbeat. I just hope this traveling road show continues after (today).

He had good height and was a very good athlete, but it was only his first year of playing quarterback.

He did a nice job. The biggest thing with Tyrus may be his conditioning as opposed to his ankle by game time on Thursday.

He had about four great receivers, and when you have that combination, it's hard to cover.

He made them in a timely way. And certainly, I know he made two, and one of them was really a remarkable distance from where I was sitting.

He made two of his three (3-pointers) in the last eight minutes of the game. He made them in a timely way. Sometimes it's not how well you shoot, sometimes it's when you make them.

He never says much. He's not a guy that gets real excited or real verbal and I think that may be why he gets disrespected.

We travel one of our academic advisors with our team. We try to stay in tune to what our players need to do on the road and what they're missing in the class, particularly the ones that need some more attention.

We've got to have a good team defensive effort on him. It will be about how we handle him coming off screens without the ball and how we handle him when he comes off screens with the ball. There'll be a couple of different ways that we'll try to guard him, and we'll see which one works the best as the game progresses and adjust as we go.

We throw the ball inside every time down the court, and we shoot six foul shots. That's pretty good guarding to me.

He's a long athletic young man who is a pleasure to coach. And he's energized our team throughout the season with plays like that throughout the course of a game. We're fortunate to have a player like that on our team.

He's a special freshman. He's like coaching a junior already. He soaks it up like a sponge. He likes being here.

He's got great timing. Sometimes he needs to be more disciplined because if you flash your eyelids he's going to get up off the floor. But it gives your perimeter defense a lot of confidence when you have a guy back there in the lane that can block it at any time.

His pre-reads would determine where he would throw the ball. He knew where he was going to throw the ball before it was snapped.

He's a special player. I call him the silent assassin, because he never says a word. But he'll get you. He's just as consistent a person as I've been around. He's blossomed at point guard after struggling early. He's embraced that roll. He almost didn't miss a shot tonight.

He's been hampered by that a little bit. But there's no question that we wouldn't be where we're at now without Darrell Mitchell.

Hopefully this will happen a bunch more in the future. But a lot of factors go into winning a conference championship.

When he came out of McKinley High School, I don't know if anybody in this room would've envisioned that this young man would be sitting here right now as a top five projected pick in the NBA.

We may see colder weather start to come back in January after a brief respite. The market had been oversold and we've seen new length coming in.

He was 338 last season, ... We said he was at 320, but we lied. Now he's at 306 or 312. Really. He was quick last year. At 310, he's like nimble quick.

He just threaded needles everywhere. He threw darts.

There are a lot of shorts in the market and the big question is demand. The market will keep a close eye on the statistics, which will shed light on demand.

Kevin is very comfortable on the court. He's been starting since he was a freshman. Dave and Brent played well for us, but it's an adjustment for them.

I think it does nothing. It's window dressing. You either come to college for a year or you go to a prep school. How many high school kids got drafted anyway? A handful? So I don't think it does anything to help.

I thought, defensively, we were good enough to win the game. We had a lot of opportunities offensively and just missed some baskets we normally have made.

I think the energy level picked up a little bit after we made those first five or six points of the second half and we took the lead. I thought our energy level defensively picked up.

I thought we had the game won on a couple of occasions. I don't think we played real smart down the stretch. We had some really careless turnovers uncharacteristic of how we've been playing.

I thought we had Steele defended OK until the last seven or eight minutes.

I thought that was well as we could play, without Tyrus Thomas.

I think we kind of quit playing to win and (started) playing not to lose. We had it going. We just didn't finish it off. It's a game we let go.

I think we have something that is unique.

I thought our team was being who it is, outgoing, fun, but loving and serious when they need to be. From some of the backgrounds that our players are from, there's nothing wrong with letting out the emotion.

I thought our team was a little casual to start the game and didn't play with a lot of enthusiasm. Maybe they were looking back on the Ohio State game and anticipating what we're doing on Saturday.

I think we were able to work through Tyrus Thomas' injury, but it's time now for us to get back whole and get a couple of good days of practice.

I think it translates into your fans having a deeper connection, maybe, having seen (the Tigers) play in high school and now at LSU.

I think the ability of Felix to guard Darrel Mitchell as he did -- a bigger guy, a physical guy on Darrel -- we never really got ourselves in a rhythm on offense. It seemed like to me we were always struggling on offense. For the most part, our execution wasn't where it needed to be.

I think they have a comfort zone in terms of personalities, where they understand each other and there's no friction ever. Sometimes I think they're disagreeing with one another too much and they say, 'Coach, that's OK. We've done this for years.' I have to back off. They have their own little language how they deal with each other.

I think there are a lot of wannabes...but I don't think there's another Lee Atwater, ... but no one can play blues guitar with B.B. King that I know of and also run a presidential campaign...

I said if our perimeter could hold up, we would have a chance to win the game.

People are cautious because two big things are laid on this week: OPEC and IAEA meetings.

Our focus wasn't there. It was kind of a workmanlike win. It was a win, but I've never seen us miss that many easy buckets. It was a win.

Our league took a hit from people early because we had so many players graduate and so many players leave early (for the NBA), but this was a league with a lot of young talent and with some outstanding coaches. Our league improved as the year went along, and with two teams in the Final Four, I think we've proven ourselves to be a lot better league than people thought we'd be.

Our defense was fine, we held them to one shot. It's just that the fog needs to clear on offense.

That first 20 minutes was as good as I've had a team play. We looked like a real basketball team for 20 minutes.

That effort was not something you coach, but it's something you recruit. He allows us to put more pressure on the ball and let him roam and protect the basket.

Many have imitated an even darker style of negative campaigning than Atwater perhaps was capable of,

Mark Emmert had a hand in it. There was a connection there.

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live for the moment and appreciate what you have.

It feels like we're marking time until the New Year, when it will be interesting to see what capital inflows we get from commodity indexes.

I think people are seeing Tyrus Thomas and thinking all of my players are like that, and I don't think they are.

I think people are seeing Tyrus Thomas and think all of my players are just like that. He's the only one that plays above the rim.

I think people want action. Players want it, too.

I think on any given night, any good college basketball team can beat another one, particularly in a tournament situation.

I think Glen Davis is the most unique college basketball player in the country or one of the most unique. He has quick feet and is quick-witted.

I think Kentucky's where it is because of its backcourt. Alabama's where it is because of its point guard. I think I'm where I am because I don't have a point guard who's proven that he can make consistent decisions throughout the season.

I think Kentucky's where it is because of its backcourt, ... Alabama's where it is because of its point guard. I think I'm where I am because I don't have a point guard who's proven that he can make consistent decisions throughout the season.

I thought it was about to be a lay-up. I don't know if he lost his balance or what. When that play happened, the momentum kind of swung the other way.

I'm sure Billy's telling his guys and they're watching tape, (saying) 'If you're not careful, LSU will board you and jump over you and jump over you and get easy baskets. I'm sure they're trying to eliminate those opportunities as we're trying to create more of them in that game Saturday.

We never really got ourselves into a rhythm on offense. It seemed like to me we were always struggling offensively to get something accomplished.

The ability to step up and make free throws shows you a lot about our team. We're a little young ourselves, but we're making plays with the youth that we have, which is quite encouraging.

That was the best defensive effort I've had a team play.

That was our plan. If one guy was going to beat us, he was the guy.

I was proud of our team for finding a way to win a game, on the road, and handle adversity.