Pat Monroe Quotations

If a guy goes down at this level, it's like you lose five guys because you lose a guy on offense, defense, on both your special teams and on the bench. One injury will devastate you, and two will end it for you.

We can compete, but I have no idea. I guess we'll probably find out on Saturday against Greensburg Central Catholic.

He's been in our program for four years. He's shared time and been on the field with some pretty good running backs.

I think it's very anxiety-provoking to everybody involved. The sense of not knowing things leads to a degree of uncertainty. It's certainly not enjoyable to anybody going through this process -- kids, parents, staff.

It isn't that the kids like to play football. Year after year, they come ready to play, and we've been blessed with key talent at the skill positions.

I think the sky is the limit with him. All you had to do is see him. Potentially, he could be a very, very good college football player.

You know you're not going to have all the bases covered, but you have to concentrate on the strengths you have. I've had some good players every year I've been here, big-play kids that allow you to be a little more creative offensively and on special teams. But people tend to find an answer for us defensively, especially power-oriented teams that find where we've tried to stash our weaknesses.

We don't have a lot of wiggle room in our budget for something like that.

With all the stuff that's been going on, it was kind of a breath of fresh air, a good distraction. It was incongruent to what was going on. It was fun for some of the people - not for Elijah because it's a stressful time.

We've played in rainstorms and monsoons and things like that, but never something like this.

It was unfortunate the way things turned out. We wanted to see how the team matched up and how much we progressed. We were going to play a top quality opponent.

Somewhere in that scope of things there was a breakdown. Specifically where, I don't know. It's a tremendous disappointment.

There were a lot of people scrambling trying to help us out. It was just unfortunate that we ran out of time.

They're getting a complete receiver. He can get off the line of scrimmage in press coverage. He catches the ball at its highest point. He's an excellent downfield blocker. He runs excellent routes and has great hands coming back to the ball. There's no weakness in his game at the receiver position.