Jerry Kill Quotations

We felt like we had to take recruiting to a little bit different level.

We're looking forward to getting a chance to show it off to recruits. We haven't had a chance to use it as a recruiting tool yet. It will be a selling point. It's been kind of remarkable that we've sold what we've had. So there's no telling what will happen now.

Basically I'm going into surgery and I'm rolling the dice. I said, 'Why not go to Vegas?' But I never did get to feeling good enough to do that.

I have kidney cancer. At this point in time, they feel very confident that they got everything. They run tests to make sure it hasn't spread. There has never been an indication from anyone that it has spread.

I feel like I'm getting better each day. I've been going hard and strong, and hopefully that will continue.

He (Carroll) makes them a whole different beast to defend.

He'll be a very good player in our program as time progresses.

I think they are a whole lot more fired up about lifting than going into that old fox hole that they used to lift in. It is definitely much better than the situation we were in.

It is amazing what Allen has done for us this spring, as far as learning our offense. And he is a tremendous athlete -- one of the best on our team.

We preferred the original date, but it became an opportunity for us to help out our athletic department and specifically, the basketball team. This is good for everyone.

The deal is I have to like it because we have about seven or eight players who aren't practicing right now due to some injuries. We would have a very thin team if we played next week.

We won a few wars and we lost a few wars today. Here in the past week, we lost (five) players to Division I(-A) programs. But at the same time we were able to get three or four of those players that turned down Division I offers. We felt like overall, as competitive as it was, that we came out pretty good.

There's no bad feelings. He just felt like it was the right decision and we support him.

They handed down discipline through the school. It wasn't a major issue. It was more of an administrative issue. I'm glad we don't work that way.

It's a slow process, I'll tell you. It's a little bit frustrating. I want to go full-tilt right now. I'm just kind of working my way into it. We've got such a young team, it's not like I can take five or six days off. It's just the first time I've ever had anything I couldn't control in life. So it is frustrating.

It was a very physical hard-fought game on a hard surface. You are going to have some of that sometimes.

It started when we were 4-8 and beat Northern Iowa and Western Illinois. The next year we got off to a good start because we had found a way to win. Winning becomes a habit just like losing is a habit.

Everybody wants to talk about Nick, but we have some competition there. It is going to be interesting to see what happens.

I really haven't had any recovery time. I'm still swelling and a little sore. But I'm not one to sit around. The busier you stay, the less your mind worries about something you can't control.

I am not going to say that Nick is a better runner than Joel because we don't know that yet. But they both have that same type of athletic ability.

All the tests so far have come back normal. I am just anxious to get back to work.