Mike Degory Guy Quotations

The things Vernell Brown has done this year are special. He's really turned it on and is having a great senior year. I'm jealous of the senior year he's had. He's one of the smallest guys on the team and he is one of the strongest.

It has been tough from the first day we got here. But what we're trying to do for the young guys is to show them what it was like when we got here, what the level of expectations was like.

Do we have an identity? Maybe not yet. All we're looking for now is 11 guys who will work hard together.

I'm not a big guy on individual stuff like tying the record. Well, I guess people can say one thing: I earned my scholarship.

We thought Tennessee was going to be one of the toughest defenses we'd have to play and then all of a sudden we look at the film and say maybe not. These guys are just as good if not better than Tennessee.

Chris Leak was on. He had that swagger and made the right decisions. It helped that he didn't have two or three guys in his face, too.

There's part of me that would always like it to be better. But I feel comfortable with what those guys are able to do next year.