Larry Blakeney Quotations

(Lucas) was one of the best players I've ever been associated with. I told the team the other day that he was one person everybody should find out something about, so they could be like him.

Mainly we've just been trying to get the defenses called and making sure the kids execute them.

He may be the brightest spot of the spring. Maybe besides Omar. He's pretty lean, but he's not the least bit shy.

I think these guys will get better. They faced a scheme that gives everybody problems. It's a more traditional defense this week, but we're facing a better set of athletes in UAB.

I think these guys will get better, ... They faced a scheme that gives everybody problems. It's a more traditional defense this week, but we're facing a better set of athletes in UAB.

I think his first year at Florida was our last year at Auburn. And the only other time was in 1966 - when I was a sophomore at Auburn and he was a senior at Florida.

We have a lot to get done in a short period of time. For the first two days, we need to establish a tempo for practice in order to get done what we need to get done over the entire 15 days.

Troy University has got 100 years of alumni, of people coming to school here and people sending their children here,

Those games were going to give us visibility and some extra money, for starters. From the get-go, we knew that in order to gain credibility and respectability and have the chance to shock the world, we were going to have to play with the big boys.

We had some guys who made plays on offense. But we had 15 or so negative plays. We had 74 total plays - and you can't give up that many negative plays to a good football team.

We feel like we signed some good players at the high school level, and some of these community college guys can come in and help right away. I'm real impressed with the way some of those high school kids looked.

Dockery's done a great job studying the offense. He might have less ability. Julian's probably the most talented, but we'll see how it plays out.

After his freshman year when figured out what was going on around here, he wouldn't let us have a bad practice. He played hard every day and demanded his teammates do the same. He was a force in our program.

I told our players that if there's a player they all wanted to be like, it was Al Lucas,

It's another comedy of errors. It's something that's totally unacceptable.

I'm very proud of them already because I know they're both academically strong. They're here in mid-year. That's something to be said.

I'm worried more about Troy than I am Missouri and they're probably worried more about Missouri than they are with Troy.

I'm not sure where that will lead to now. There is a good rate of recovery, but you hate to see one of your leaders get hurt in the spring.

He wouldn't let us have a bad practice,

He's shown that he knows best how to run this offense so far. He's got leadership, and he's very serious about his business on and off the field.