Derek Hagan Quotations

Last year's game has definitely been lingering for all of us. We never imagined losing that game with the way we were playing last season.

Right now I'm really not thinking about it all. It's great to break a record, but it's definitely not on my mind right now. Obviously, if we had won the game, breaking the record would have been a lot better.

He's coming around every single week. It all started back in spring ball. He played great in the spring -- I think he was one of the MVPs, you know, and he's been getting better and better every week. He's in the film room, and Sam's showing him the way, letting him know what he needs to do.

He was basically in the same situation I was in. He didn't get recruited too much, but he walked on to Oregon State and he's turned everything around.

It all starts with the offensive line. Our line is just getting after it. Look at the Northwestern film. They were putting guys on their backs left and right.

It didn't always go the way we wanted, but we kept fighting. And to go out a winner was great.

We have a lot of guys who are motivated and want to win. I want to see guys fired up every game, every practice and determined we can get the job done. Knowing we can go into LSU and USC can come into our building and we're going to win those games, knowing we can compete with anybody. That just comes down to showing up. We thought we were ready to play (in big games last year), but we weren't.

We didn't show up tonight. It seemed like guys' minds weren't into the game too much. Some guys were there, some guys weren't.

Whenever corners press and play man coverage, you've got to get excited. You're definitely looking for the ball.

Once the offense gets on the field, we expect to make plays. We just didn't make any plays tonight.

Its more for the fans. Its great to have Lee Corso and his crew out here and its great publicity for the school to see the country watching us on TV, but its more for the fans that are out there cheering on the Sun Devils and getting ready for the game.

I really feel that we can't be stopped. We have guys who can make plays at any time. We know we have a good team. We knew that last year. We just didn't show up.

I guess that's true. A lot of people have talked about that quite a bit. But I think there are guys who have put up some numbers.

All the receivers are talking about making the big plays. We know that they only put one guy back in the secondary, and we love to throw the ball deep, so hopefully we can have a big day.