Vic Koenning Quotations

We're going to put it on those two guys, but frankly, I think there are some other guys that can step up and get there, too.

We are getting there. And I guarantee you there's gonna be a time when we can get our pictures up on the wall right there for having a No. 1 defense. It just isn't going to happen now. I'm not here because they were close to that.

We were trying to see what the limits were on guys. That's one of the things you do. He's been in good shape.

So I said, 'Well, I'll try it,' and we proceeded to string four (wins) in a row together, and it becomes one of those deals where you don't ever go back.

Now they're starting to understand why we're doing things, not just, 'What's my assignment?' So I think it will start coming along faster. Early on I think we had a bad approach, and you can blame me. The players were trying to memorize everything.

I'm anxious to watch these guys play. We have set the bar high, and we're going to push to reach it.

We're pretty beat up. We've got some guys playing sore and having to get them ready to play by Thursday, but that's part of the way it is. We haven't played an (easy) opponent like some schools play early in the year.

We've done some things to help him, which have put Tye Hill on some islands, quite frankly.

I think we've got some guys I think can play. We just have to make sure we put them in position to make plays.

I was pretty upset with the way we played.

We've got some answers with some guys who have played this position before. We have confidence in those other guys that have played when that time does come up.

We got tired, no doubt. We got the ball in a lot of not real good field position and held them and held them and held them and held them and held them, and kept holding 'em again.

I've never had that before, in how many years of coaching? So we've had it twice in two games, so we've got to get that squared away, too.

The big thing for us right now defensively, is to work on our depth. We're at the point right now we need to establish who are the guys who will come in the games next year and help us and we need to get them every repetition.

This defense is being built for the long term, I'd say, as much as it is the short term. I know that we need to compete right now, and I'm not making any excuses for what might or might not happen. But there's a lot of talented young players.

They were just trying to get through it.

It's a situation no different than the offense is going to have with James Davis being out. Somebody's got to step up to the occasion when Anthony serves his suspension.

It's a learning curve and a process that we're in right now. It probably doesn't sound right being in the seventh year, honestly.

It worked OK. It's just something I felt pretty strongly about during the bus ride back. We looked like we were running in mud sometimes at Wake Forest and not generating the kind of pressure that we need. I don't know if it's the right answer, honestly. I think the right answer is just (to) get better at rushing four.

This is coach Bowden's way of saying we need to start knocking people out.

I'd really rather have a four-man front, have a couple ends to go 'sic 'em and have interior guys get in the step-up lanes. We just haven't gotten that yet.