Joe Taylor Quotations

We appreciate all of his contributions to the men's basketball program. We wish him well in his future endeavors.

There are four or five plays every game that will determine the outcome, and those plays are (usually) special teams. There's nothing worse than your offense going eight or nine plays for a touchdown, and then you kick off and see the other team go all the way with one play. That's demoralizing. We've come to understand the importance of special teams.

Jeremy won't be our only Division I-A transfer. We expect to have about three more before we're done.

We were looking for leverage and speed. Football has become a game of speed, and that's true even on the offensive line.

We need eyes and ears on the ground for things we can't do ourselves.

When you're at this point and you're trying to get some things done and you've got some goals set, it's important each week that you prepare well, because you don't ever want to think, 'What if?' ... So if you hope to keep any momentum going . . . winning can help but certainly losing can set you back a little bit, too.

We're very fortunate to come away with a victory. Luckily, we were able to overcome the turnovers by making a few plays when we needed to.

We like to sell when we're recruiting the idea that it is our hope that at least twice per year, you're going to play in an NFL venue,

Everyone thinks it's a good idea to get more people on the road, ... The proposed starting salary and costs for their schooling seem a little high and the council wants to look at that.

At this level and above, when teams are evenly matched, normally the difference makers are special teams. There's nothing like taking an eight- or nine-play drive and scoring and then the other team gets in the end zone with the kickoff return - those are momentum swingers. We tell our guys, be the reason we won, not the reason we lost.

As soon as Dad got a taste of it, that's all he could think of.

It's been really interesting for me ... to share in the experience with someone who is seeing the quilt for the first time. Just how surprised they are by the number of quilts and also by the detail and the love that people put into each quilt. Each time I see someone who's never seen it, who's seeing it for the first time, moves me.

For a long while, people didn't give scholarships for special teams. But now, it's understood. You're not looking for a walk-on. You're looking for a guy because he is a weapon.

Dad wasn't a daredevil, but he lived his life to the fullest.

In the Quad-Cities its seems like there are five or six ways to get to a destination. What needs to be determined is the primary way to get to your destination.

I certainly would have done it for a dollar, because I believe in South Carolina that much. There's a different level of accountability when you take it to full-time.

The essence of the report is that we've gotten better, we've moved forward. We've tried to alert parents and young people that students are not here as athletes, they're here to learn and do research.