Keith Menard Quotations

I respected his wish not to play. I wasn't going to force this game on anybody. I would hope nobody would do that to me if I was in that situation.

We're improved over last year. I don't believe there's a team on our schedule that we're not capable of beating. By the same token, we're capable of losing to those teams if we don't play well.

This doesn't help us, but we'll survive. It could be a lot worse. In a year that we're in it's easy to shrug this kind of stuff off and be thankful for what we have.

I don't know if there's a right way to do it. I don't know if we did right or if we did wrong. I know for us we needed to play. I can't control the weather. This is definitely not what we wanted.

I checked the radar right before we left. There was no rain. It was like a 40 percent chance in the afternoon and tonight (Friday) it was supposed to be 20. It just came out of nowhere. It was just one of those things.

You usually don't put a lot of stock in who wins a jamboree. We're coming off a 1-9 season and I think it holds a little more weight. The kids played with a sense of urgency. I thought we forced some turnovers and moved the ball well.