Glen Mason Quotations

When you think you've got him, you don't.

My kids are as down as down can be, and in some ways they should be and in some ways they shouldn't be. They played as hard as they could, but to beat Ohio State you have to do a lot of things right. You have to do most things right, let's face it. We did some and we didn't do others.

I'd be less than truthful if I didn't say that I've been thinking about it because it's important to a lot of people around me -- my coaches, their families and my family. But I really try to put it to the back burner because a lot of responsibilities I have here, and I literally don't have any time to spend on it.

We sure didn't have an answer for him down the middle.

He's a great back. Just look at the number of touches he gets a game. Not only from the running back position, but from screens and passes and you name it. I wished he would have stayed at Colorado.

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Laurence is a good football player. He could play a number of positions. He's a tough kid and has tremendous speed.

I run a clean program. I've been to six bowl games in seven years. I think we're going in the right direction. It isn't easy. Sure, I've had some disappointments, but we've had some great moments, too.

I thought it was the right time to take a shot.

I thought, 'How'd you do that? Here we go again.

I would like to explain the end of our game against Wisconsin, but I'm still trying to figure it out.

To go from such a dramatic finish seven days ago to another one today, but with different emotions, really hurts. I really feel for my team right now. It almost hurts worse to lose like this than when you get killed.

This sure is a long cry from the Big Two and the Little Eight, I can tell you that. I guess maybe the only problem is on the national scope everybody beats everybody up and you still have a bunch of good football teams, but the records don't reflect it.

There is still a lot of football to be played. If you keep looking in the rearview mirror, that's where you will go - backwards. You have to shake this off and march forward.

They are all grown men. I'm sensitive to it, but I don't know exactly what the situation is.

It really hurts. It hurts more than when you get killed.

I told them in the locker room after the game ... we're the first bowl-eligible team in country, and they just kind of laughed. We've kind of gone past that level as saying we've reached success, it really didn't mean that much.

I knew we only needed a field goal to tie it and put it into overtime, but I thought it was a great time to take a shot. More often than not, from the defensive perspective, the offense gets that ball.

I haven't been very emotional about this thing. The emotional side of coaching is dealing with the kids. I've been a college coach for 34 years. I understand the business side. I might not like the decision that they make, but that is their prerogative.

I'll greatly miss them and more because of the type of people they are rather than the type of players they are. It was fun. It was an honor for me to go to practice every day and joke around with those guys and talk to those guys. They're in my estimation what college football's all about.

I guess you don't appreciate going to a bowl until you don't get to go to a bowl.

Before we even played any games this year, I said I think we'll be a better football team than we were last year. We're a year more experienced, a little bit bigger, a little bit stronger, so we should be better.

He?s an awfully good quarterback that happens to also be an outstanding athlete.

The first thing that comes to my mind, I feel this is the worst defeat we've endured in the seven-plus years I've been here.

The first time that he's going in there in front of 100,000 people and be on TV, it's a different experience for him. Sometimes they handle it well, and sometimes they don't.