Kirk Ferentz Quotations

The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and who not to recruit. Is that a good thing I'm not sure, but it is reality.

Getting to the linebackers is difficult. Blocking them is another challenge.

A balanced offense will make Drew Tate a more effective and dangerous quarterback, ... If he can lean on a good, consistent running game, that'll be a real plus for us.

Bob Sanders wasn't the biggest guy coming out of Erie, Pa., but I don't think anybody would dispute that he was a pretty good player for us.

Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future

The bottom line is, as the season goes on, everybody becomes more comfortable. For a quarterback, it's more than just him. It's everybody else doing things. Offense is all about how things work as a unit. It's everybody being comfortable.

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

I learned a long time ago that at the end of the day, the only stat that counts is points, The other ones are significant, but I'd much rather have the right score on the board. At the end of the day, that's what we're worried about.

There's a reason they made him a quarterback, and it wasn't because he was a great thrower, I don't think, ... They made him a quarterback, and they won the state championship.

There were so many plays ... where we really made it tough on ourselves. We're the kind of outfit that can't make a costly error, or too many of them. When you have several of them it kind of compounds the problem.