Aaron Finch Quotations

It became clearer for all of us what kind of program we wanted to be and how we wanted to go about preparing and competing.

I think we had some stars in our eyes a little bit. It was a great learning experience. It's been a while since we lost a football game.

Look at Rifle - last year they were the fourth seed out of our league and they won the state championship. The whole mission for us is making the playoffs. You've got to get into that second season, and we took another step toward that tonight.

I'm so happy for him after fighting through mono. He deserved a game like this.

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

We, as a team, are really focused on getting back to the playoffs. As Rifle showed last year as a fourth seed, anything can happen. We need to win some of these games against good teams.

What Palisade does is take sure risks relative to the pass. It's tough to run against. If you don't catch passes to wide open guys ... We had guys open.

To be four games in at 3-1 is about as good as we could have hoped for.

Boy, the core of our offense uses speed to get outside, and when we can make that work, it makes our life easier. So, we were very happy. Good start, good execution.

Our execution at the beginning of the game was perfect.

I told them it's not acceptable to leave here without a win. We needed to play with our intensity.

It showed our kids they could go up against great athletes and compete -- and compete as a team. If we hadn't come out after the lightning delay and executed and won that game, where would we have gone?

It's sad, because linemen have that dream of carrying the football.

It was a great game. It was a fun game. The officiating was awesome. The players were all great. It was everything you want in a high school football game.

It was one of the plays you always wanted them to run. A couple of times we actually practiced it and tried to put it in.

If you had told me that we would turn the ball over five times and still beat the defending state champions, there's no way I would have believed you.

Their linemen have great technique. Their defensive linemen get off the ball well. Their primary back looks like a real strong runner, and they have some speed at wing T. It looks like a Rifle team.