Jim Boyd Ball Quotations

We get the ball back somewhere around the 30-yard line and we're out of timeouts. We're scrambling. We try to put together some plays to try and get into the end zone, but the reality of the whole thing is Caleb broke off his route and went into the end zone and Brandon threw him another perfect pass. Caleb makes an exceptional catch and now we're tied up and we got :05 on the clock.

Kickers are a little different and you've got to be careful with them because they think too much. Before this ballgame I talked to Joe and I said, 'Joe, just go out there and kick the ball. Don't think about it. Just go out and kick it because there's going to be a situation where we need you in this ballgame,' and sure enough, here it was and he came through beautifully for us.

It was like David and Goliath out there. They were huge and big and we tried to run the ball and we couldn't. We couldn't establish anything. We couldn't throw the ball because they were playing a 4-3 with a Cover-2. so it was very difficult to move the ball on them.

I thought Brandon had a tremendous game on both sides of the ball and his decision making was quite good, ... You got to remember you're going against one of the best defensive teams in Iowa and they gave us problems all night long.

We got a little kick down the sideline and they were converging on the middle. The ball went to the sideline and they didn't jump on the ball. Caleb hustled down and recovered the ball and here we are with the ball inside their 20-yard line.

We got a little kick down the sideline and they were converging on the middle, ... The ball went to the sideline and they didn't jump on the ball. Caleb hustled down and recovered the ball and here we are with the ball inside their 20-yard line.

He was strong enough to hold off the defender and get the ball off to Chris and Chris finds an opening and he just makes something happen,

You look at him and you think, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can count on him,' and then he starts running with the ball and no one is going to bring him down, ... He runs so hard and so determined to get into the end zone and that's his trademark.

They scouted us and watched the West Lyon game. They realized Chris Newman is kind of our feature back and they game-planned to take him out of the ballgame and they did a fine job of stopping him,

We just didn't have the ball. I think at one point they had the ball for 20 minutes and we had it a total of six, ... When we got the ball we had terrible field position, so it was a situation where we couldn't do what we wanted to do. We struggled for quite a bit of that ballgame, but the kids came through when we had to come through.