Jim Boyd Quotations

He loved to meet with people, see how things were going, ... Even though he was retired, he still had a big presence.

We're optimistic and hopeful the court will approve the sale. We're hopeful Dill's will be open by this summer.

He was strong enough to hold off the defender and get the ball off to Chris and Chris finds an opening and he just makes something happen,

Kickers are a little different and you've got to be careful with them because they think too much. Before this ballgame I talked to Joe and I said, 'Joe, just go out there and kick the ball. Don't think about it. Just go out and kick it because there's going to be a situation where we need you in this ballgame,' and sure enough, here it was and he came through beautifully for us.

I thought Brandon had a tremendous game on both sides of the ball and his decision making was quite good, ... You got to remember you're going against one of the best defensive teams in Iowa and they gave us problems all night long.

Standard residential land has been going for over $150,000 per acre for a while.

We need a little payback for Storm Lake last year. They kind of ruined our season and we haven't forgotten that. We want to show people we can play well against them. They're a very good team, a very physical team. They like to throw a lot, so it's going to give us a different set of problems. We want to rise to the occasion and come back with a victory in week two (of district play).

We just didn't have the ball. I think at one point they had the ball for 20 minutes and we had it a total of six, ... When we got the ball we had terrible field position, so it was a situation where we couldn't do what we wanted to do. We struggled for quite a bit of that ballgame, but the kids came through when we had to come through.

We get the ball back somewhere around the 30-yard line and we're out of timeouts. We're scrambling. We try to put together some plays to try and get into the end zone, but the reality of the whole thing is Caleb broke off his route and went into the end zone and Brandon threw him another perfect pass. Caleb makes an exceptional catch and now we're tied up and we got :05 on the clock.

This would allow students an opportunity to raise concerns about the New Jersey state budget and how it will affect Rutgers.

We need to have a good election and get more people that are willing to work hard for this body so that all the work we are doing now can be further dispersed.

What really sparked us was we ran an option on the right side and Brandon pitched it at the last second and it went to Chris Newman and we thought he was out of bounds, but he turns it up field and goes 50 yards for a touchdown. That gives us momentum and I think the next drive we get down in kicking range and big Joe does a great job with a 37-yard field goal and that really pumps us up.

We got a little kick down the sideline and they were converging on the middle. The ball went to the sideline and they didn't jump on the ball. Caleb hustled down and recovered the ball and here we are with the ball inside their 20-yard line.

We got a little kick down the sideline and they were converging on the middle, ... The ball went to the sideline and they didn't jump on the ball. Caleb hustled down and recovered the ball and here we are with the ball inside their 20-yard line.

We tell Brandon he has one person to beat. We feel there's going to be some kind of blitz or seepage and he has to be able to recognize that and get away from that. When you do that, someone's going to be open in the secondary and Chris was wide open.

We challenged them in the second half and said if we're going to win the ballgame, it's going to be up front. Those kids really came through for us, ... I'm very excited. There's not too many seasons I start out feeling that great about our line and the way we're playing, but I think they're even going to get better.

You look at him and you think, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can count on him,' and then he starts running with the ball and no one is going to bring him down, ... He runs so hard and so determined to get into the end zone and that's his trademark.

I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career.

Defensively we were playing scared and weren't coming out and being aggressive. Offensively we had to put a drive together and with Caleb hurt, we had to do some things to be able to move the ball. I wish I could say I had a stroke of genius, but I really didn't. When you look at it, we just kind of went back to basics and ran our leads and ran our option and that put us in good scoring range.

They scouted us and watched the West Lyon game. They realized Chris Newman is kind of our feature back and they game-planned to take him out of the ballgame and they did a fine job of stopping him,

That's something we go through in practice, ... These are the plays we can count on to carry us through and the boys executed very well - our running back Chris Newman in particular.

It was like David and Goliath out there. They were huge and big and we tried to run the ball and we couldn't. We couldn't establish anything. We couldn't throw the ball because they were playing a 4-3 with a Cover-2. so it was very difficult to move the ball on them.

They were playing Cover-2 and the corner was up a little bit tight and the safety never came over. It was an excellent throw and Caleb takes it in for a touchdown. Now we're down one touchdown and we're feeling pretty good about ourselves.

I knew it had been awhile, but I didn't realize it was that long. Our philosophy is a little different. We don't start with an easy schedule. We try and get teams that will really challenge us and really prepare us well for district play. You do that and you're going to take your lumps, but you're going to be better. You just don't progress unless you play the best.

He brought the hotel up from a young age, ... Family always brought him back to the Union.

The dogs shed a lot of blood in these things.