Jason Simpson Quotations

We went back to our basics, and it really paid off for us. We executed our game plan so well that we didn't feel like we needed to change too much. We just needed more takeaways. We practiced it all week and we tried to get them out in the game, and it just didn't happen. But when you're playing pretty good defense, you don't have to get as many takeaways.

It's a tragic thing and we're going to have to try to get through it, ... He died on the field and that's the ultimate sacrifice.

We expect any weakness in the economy to be temporary. Our view is that the economy will slow down a bit in the second half of this year.

We just probably didn't give Baskett enough respect.

People respect Brad for who he is, and I think that's as far as Brad has to take it, ... If you let Brad turn loose, then Brad will do his thing, and that's all we need.

I knew the deal when I took the job. I'm not complaining. We were aware of this.

He went with them to Murray, but that's OK. We understand that.

A number of pension funds had new money to put to work and they put it into the bond market when the rulings were clarified.

We've been hit by some upside surprises, but a lot of the recent data has been back to questioning the strength of the European recovery. We could easily see the market rallying a bit.

As long as he complies with our athletic department rules and regulations and meets all of my expectations, then he'll be allowed to rejoin the team. He has a tremendous amount of work to be done in order to rejoin the team on a full-time basis.