Al Groh Great Quotations

His circumstances are very positive. From a layman's point of view, surgery was remarkably successful and he's doing very well with his rehab. The prognosis is positive. I wouldn't say, 'Count him in,' but I wouldn't say, 'Count him out,' either. He's got a great attitude about it.

If you watched us over the past five years, you know we're pretty tight end-oriented, so we're always looking for opportunities to get the ball to them. Obviously we had an idea we could catch some, and Marcus did a great job of getting the ball to them in those spots.

Al Golden is a very engaging, energetic coach. He has contributed a great deal to our program which hopefully gives him a good model on how to do things right. His coming to Temple is a real plus for the Owl program.

It's really still pretty early, ... We're only at the halfway mark. At that stage, I think it's too early to get hyped up about whether you have a great team and it's a little premature to be running around like Chicken Little saying, 'The sky is falling.'

He was a great inspiration to the players and coaches. On those days when he had to take chemo and radiation, he was at practice that day and sometimes the cumulative effects would cause him to miss the next day, but the time when he wasn't active in the program was minimal.

He was a great inspiration to the players and coaches, ... On those days when he had to take chemo and radiation, he was at practice that day and sometimes the cumulative effects would cause him to miss the next day, but the time when he wasn't active in the program was minimal.

That's a very positive thing for Boston College, too. I'd like to be able to say the same things about our circumstances every year, but in this particular case, because they have all shown themselves to be effective, it really doesn't make a great deal of difference who plays.

We haven't pursued this with great urgency. He wasn't in particular discomfort Sunday and he said he was feeling even better Monday.

One of the Walsh tenets that he says repeatedly in his book, is that in his offense 50 percent of all the passing yardage should come on yards after the catch. So, if that's what you're banking on, if there's not much yards after catch, then you have a lot of short throws, a lot of catches for minimal yardage that don't amount to a great deal of production.

He's a great model for the university in general. To have a player of this level and this accomplishment, who's also graduated in seven semesters, paints a pretty good profile of what we're looking for.

I wouldn't say count him in, but I wouldn't say count him out either. He's got a great attitude about it. His doctors are very positive about it. It will be some time before we can make a final determination.

If he's 1-for-30 and we win, he's happy. That's the great thing about him. He's played for his team at whatever position he's been needed and played with as much heart and unselfishness as anybody.