It doesn't mean that we hit on 100 percent, that doesn't mean that every guy that enters the locker room is an angel. But that doesn't cause you to waver from the fact that you still deem it important, and you still look for it and you fight to get it.
They've dealt with hoopla for three, four years. You know, at least some of the time, a little better maybe, what you're going to have when you get a guy in your program.
So a guy like that, I think I would be surprised if he didn't end up banging around a few years with somebody.
He's one of those eight or 10 guys that you know you could draft and he could come into your franchise and carry the ball 20-30 times a week for a lot of years. It wouldn't matter if you went to Slippery Rock or any place else as talented as he is. Those things stick out.
If (agent Carl) Poston comes and says, 'Hey, my guy is in love with your team and he wants to play for the minimum,' then things might be different.
You're so far behind the eight ball before you come in, and then you don't do as well, ... Then your confidence suffers. In some cases, you don't get a guy back until the next year. I think that's a gigantic factor.
We didn't want to have to go into the draft trying to hit 10 different spots. We had hand-selected a group of guys that we thought if we could get one or two, we'd be in great shape. We've ended up with four.
I've seen players test in single digits and play 10 years, and I've seen some guys test in the 30s that couldn't walk across the street.
Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.
I don't know. He's not one of those 6-4, 220-pound guys who runs the 40 in 4.6. But he's an athlete. His father coached for 30 or so years, so he grew up in a passing system.