James Blankenship Kids Quotations

It started out weird, and then it just kept getting more weird as the night went on. I don't know of much that didn't happen in that game. Even when we kicked off, it was an adventure. I was just happy that our kids did eventually take control. I was waiting for them to play circus music at any time over the loud speaker, because that is what it seemed like.

Gibson Southern was committing eight in the box to try to stop our running game, kind of daring us to pass. We had some kids make some big plays, but I still don't think we are even close to where we should be on the offensive line.

We told the kids at halftime that the first thing we wanted to see was for them to compete in this kind of situation. We didn't want to hang our heads. We wanted to go out and play as a team.

These kids gave a great effort tonight. We were proud of them in the second half. And I think the kids feel a lot better about themselves after the way they came out in the second half. We have some positives to take away from this.

We have some kids capable of running the ball, ... Tonight, Sammy was obviously running very, very well. We were just going to keep putting the ball in his hands. He did have some holes, and once he got in the secondary he was pretty tough to bring down.

They physically handled us up front on both sides of the ball, and we weren't ready for that. A lot of our kids hadn't been exposed to that kind of varsity football. But we have talked to the kids, and we are going to be a team that gets better as the season goes along.

We were real happy with our play early. The kids were really coming off the ball, playing excited on defense and offense.