Dennis Franchione Quotations
Dennis Franchione Quotes about:
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Area Quotes
Obviously, he can run and do a lot of things with the ball in his hands. But he's a good receiver, he catches the ball very well. The other thing that really catches your eye is he's a good blocker. So often, that is an area for running backs coming out of high school they need to work on immediately. Mike is pretty good at it and that's a bonus.
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Close Quotes
He never really wavered. Obviously, when you've got a team that played for the national championship three years in a row hammering you, it takes some intestinal fortitude to stand up to that and play close to home where your family can see you play. Mike stood right in there all the way through this process.
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College Quotes
We are seeing far more one-back sets and far more need to be in nickel situations in today's college football than we are seeing two-back sets. We're just kind of basing it on what we are seeing the most and working the other direction basing with the 4-3 and working out to the nickel.
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Biggest Quotes
With eight returning starters on both sides, we have a little more experience to take in a setting like that. Probably very few people realized Utah was a BCS-caliber team at that time, and that wasn't much fun. ... The biggest plus is maturity and experience, which we couldn't claim at a lot of positions last season.