Randy Edsall Quotations

We knew we were going to play him as a linebacker,

We really liked what we had on our roster. I just didn't feel the quarterback position was something we needed to address this year.

This program has tasted success and what these kids want to do is keep that rolling.

We won't have to worry about that this week.

When you can get that kind of field position through special teams it's a big advantage. Guys like that, the one thing it does is it gets the guys in front of them to keep blocking longer and sustain their blocks because they know that whenever he touches the ball he can go the distance.

Lou made some really nice runs. Donald probably had his best day of the spring. Andre also had a good day. They all did some good things. They're guys that proved they can help us. I wouldn't be hesitant to put any of those four guys, plus Larry (Taylor), into a game.

Shane has got a tremendous passion to be a pilot. It's not something that he could do here from an academic standpoint so he's going to be going down there because he wants to be a corporate pilot. I told him that when he gets his license we'll rent a corporate jet and he can fly me around or something.

One thing that Dennis can do is that he can do all the things we are going to want to do offensively in order to be as successful as we possibly can. I know that all the guys on the team have a tremendous amount of respect for him, they know that he has ability and they know that it's their job to make his job easier.

If they can pick it up and do things, it will make everybody's job a lot easier.

I'd like to have another guy like him and have bookends. That's what I'd like to do.

I'd like to have another guy like him and have bookends, ... That's what I'd like to do.

I am extremely disappointed for our seniors that weren't able to get this game and extend their season. Our kids competed hard and played hard, but playing hard doesn't get you what you want. And what we wanted was a win.

Because of the number of people we lost - we had to spend time doing some different things in terms of developing leadership and getting guys to understand what it's going to take to play at the level that we want to play at, ... A lot of the guys haven't had the opportunity to play at that level.

I expect Dennis, being relaxed, to go out and play the game. It's interesting, the one thing about him, the fact that he's coming from Miami is that he's played in front of 10 to 15,000 people before. I know it's not 40,000, but from what I have seen out of him he's a poised young man and a confident young man.

I expect Dennis, being relaxed, to go out and play the game,

He's got to throw the ball a little quicker before guys make their breaks. He's as upset as anybody.

He withdrew from school. For personal reasons he decided that he should withdraw from school.

He gutted it out, but there are a lot of things he has to work on. He has to learn not to hold the ball so long in certain situations.

He moves very well for a man his size. I don't worry about 40-times. If he's ever doing a 40-yard sprint on game day, something's wrong.

When I address those 105 guys, they're going to look at me and my attitude in terms of how I'm approaching this, ... If I'm not upbeat, I'm not positive and I don't have the good body language, then I'm sending a message to the team of 'woe is me.'

We feel Jonathon has speed and athletic ability coming off the edge if we play him as a defensive end. In college football you don't need to have all those big people up front rushing all the time. Plus, with his athleticism, it helps us with some of the other things we do with our nickel package.

He's kind of moved on and is looking forward and not looking back.

He's been practicing the same plays, the same game plan, through those first five weeks that we were doing with Matt. We're going to just continue to go the way that we have been going. He can do the things we want in the running game and he can do the things we want in the passing game. Now we've just got to go and practice those things and let him do what we feel he can do the best.

He's demonstrated to me to have the best work ethic. He has the most passion of the next best tackle that I think we have on our team. He has the size, the strength and the athletic ability we're looking for. I just felt as we head into spring that he's going to line up there. It's based on what he's done and what other guys didn't do.

He's here, he's paying his own way for classes, and he's taking part in football activities. He's a walk-on who'll be fighting for a chance to play, just like everybody else.

He's healthy now. He's been punting the ball much better than he had been. He's got a little more confidence.

He's healthy now, ... He's been punting the ball much better than he had been. He's got a little more confidence.

He's got to learn a game plan. He doesn't need any other distractions other than getting himself prepared, ... The more he can do that the better he'll feel going into the game rather than have to answer a lot of questions at this point in time.

He's going to work real hard to try and get himself back for this season. It's unfortunate because he's a young man who was making some progress this spring.

He wants to be good and will do whatever it takes to be good. He wants to understand everything. He's got a great work ethic and a great understanding of football. He understood football when he got here.

He wanted to know if the film was up on the Internet yet. He had some swelling in his hand so he went down and got X-rays.

There are talented football players on this team. It's just that nobody knows about them because they haven't played,

It comes across pretty well (on tape). You think there's a hole and you see them play Auburn and North Carolina and you think the guy might get 15 yards but he only gets about eight. They run to the ball very well. But that doesn't mean we can't move the ball.

I thought he did a good of hanging in there. We'll grow from this. We have to understand just how good we're going to have to be to compete with a top-20 team on the road.

I think when you have that it makes other people change what they want to do from a punting standpoint. Larry has a tremendous amount of confidence back there and I thought he made great decisions when the ball was kicked away from him going to get them and pick it up and make something happen.

I think we're getting as much as we can out of Terry and Brock. If the (offensive line) can pick it up, that will make everybody's job a lot easier.

I think we have covered all of our needs.

I think we have a number of guys, as they continue to get more experience, that can go in. What has to happen is that we need to have more consistency at that position.

I think anybody that watched our punting game this year knew that it was a very inconsistent game to say the least.

I think it's working out very well. It's good because all five of those guys or all 15 of those guys are in the same room and they're hearing the same thing. Not that there was a problem, but I think those five always have to work together.

I saw him holding his hand and asked if he was all right. He said he was. But you could just see when he went back out there that there was a little bit of a problem.

Our kids are playing hard. I think they have some confidence. We know as the season progresses it's going to get tougher and tougher.

Our starters aren't going to get a free pass not to be on special teams. Even though we have more depth and some people who can do things, our best people are going to play on our special teams.

Other than seeing the ball go down the field a little more, I don't think there's a whole lot of difference in what they're doing, ... The times Mike Teel has been in playing, he's done a good job for them.

I think coming out early like that, he has to really try and showcase himself, especially since he didn't get to go to the combines. He's got to make his mark out there with people watching him and maybe they'll work him out a little further.

I think he'll do fine. His confidence and poise will be fine. Those are things we as coaches have to help him with this week. I'm confident in his abilities. Our coaches are confident in him and I know our players will be confident in him.

I think he has a little bit more speed, a little bit more shake to him than what 'Bones' did.

I thought he would fit in better back at safety. I think he was struggling a little bit at the Husky position so we wanted to put him back at strong safety, where he was probably a little bit more comfortable. We didn't want to go too deep into spring without doing that so we tried to evaluate it as quickly as we could with him.

That stuff never bothers me. We're going to make our own evaluations.

I was proud of the way our guys came out and played the game, in terms of going through executing the way we did. Sometimes you have some concerns in situations like this.

We'll continue to run our offense and put a game plan together that we know he'll be able to handle and that everyone will be able to execute.

We'll try to keep him as fresh as we can.

We've made up a lot of ground. With each year we've recruited, we've gotten faster and faster. We've increased our team speed each year, but are we to the level of a Georgia Tech? I don't think so.

We know that they're a very experienced football team. They feel like they've got one of the top defenses in the MAC. We know we're going to have to go out and win the game. They're not going to give us anything.

Three of the four of them had their moments last year. Each of them brings different things to the table. ... There's nothing etched in granite. I want to see how they develop. We want to see who can take the leadership role in the huddle and who can throw the ball most accurately.

When I saw him at our summer camp, (Hurd) demonstrated a lot of athletic ability. And he showed good speed for a big man. We'll put some weight on him and where we plays ... I'm not sure yet ... but I know he's going to keep getting bigger and better.

Those are the three that we really went after. Those are the three that we identified who we thought could really come in here and help our program.

We'll have a better idea of the time frame after (the doctor) goes in. It could be two weeks, it could be three weeks. I don't know.

We had some inconsistencies last year at that position. We'll have four guys compete for the job this spring.

We're a team. We're not a bunch of individuals. What everybody has to do is just pick their game up a little bit. It doesn't matter who is in there. We have confidence in them or we wouldn't put them in.

There is a tremendous challenge for this football team this week as we head down to Atlanta. We know that they are an outstanding football team. They are well coached. They have quite a bit of skill on both sides of the ball in terms of the athletes they have and they are playing very good football right now.

We'd like to get him up to about 250. He's a guy that has the athleticism to play the run and play the pass equally well.

We'd like to get him up to about 250, ... He's a guy that has the athleticism to play the run and play the pass equally well.

We'll see if some of these other guys can step up or see if we're going to be inserting some of the freshmen. Right now I'd say we'll be inserting some of the freshmen at wide receiver.

We'll sit down and look at it. I have something in my mind but we're going to hash it out first. I've got a lot of personnel issues to address here.

We're trying to put the guy in there that gives us the best opportunity to do the things that we want to do offensively and has had the most experience with our offense,

We did a pretty good job. They thought they were going to put a big number on us. They were surprised. They thought they'd be able to wear us down. I was pleased with our conditioning.

There has to be a whole revamping of recruiting because of technology.

We had a tough time blocking them. We had a tough time tackling them. We didn't do a good job as coaches. We didn't do a good job as players.

We had a tough time blocking, tackling, and didn't do a good job as coaches and players, ... We didn't open up enough holes and sustain enough blocks on offense. It's always a combination of things, and we just need to keep working and get better.

When you play defense, it is about emotion. It is about enthusiasm. You want to see that and you want to have that. And we have a few guys that bring that to the table.

We've just got to move forward. I don't remember being involved in anything like this.

When we've been really good here, we've had guys that have been that way. You go back to when Alfred (Fincher) was here.

We knew about his athleticism when we recruited him. We wanted to utilize his speed and athleticism and his ability to get to the ball. He's a tough kid, too.

We tried to do everything we possibly could during this week of preparation to get him distracted on the practice field. I thought he handled things very well. We'll just have to just see if it carries over. I'm hoping the weather will be rainy and keep people away.

We got overwhelmed by a really good defense.

Brandon and James are already talking. James says 'I can't wait to go against you because now I can hit you and get away with it.

Everybody has to take a bit more pride and effort that the No. 1 job of the offensive line and running backs is pass protection. You don't want that quarterback to be touched. You have to work to do that. Regardless of how many first-year guys we have in the offensive line, they're playing and that's the job they're expected to do.

Cornell liked what he heard back from the league and has decided to pursue this avenue.

There's no doubt about it, we would have been inside. We'd like to be able to get things done. And plus we'd be further along. We'll be further along next year because our guys will have been throwing all winter long and doing things. That's the advantage. If this was next year at this time, we'd have a nice sweat going.

They all watched the Iowa State-Army game on television. They saw what kind of team Army had.

There will be two guys competing. I don't look if a guy is a walk-on or a guy is a scholarship player. I'm looking at who is the best guy that's going to give us our best opportunity to win. That's who we're going to go with. Walk-on or scholarship means nothing to me.

The schedule that I've already made for beginning in August, I know this: Regardless of wind, rain, snow, sleet, whatever it may be, I'm never going to have to worry about changing. We can set a schedule and if I want to practice at 3:15 every day, we can practice at 3:15. Every day we're going to practice at 3:15 whether it's outside or it's inside. It will be nice when that day comes.

The schedule gives us balance in terms of not being on the road more than one week at a time. I like that the Big East games are mostly together and later in the season while we also have a good mix of non-conference foes from the ACC, Big Ten and independents along with an old traditional opponent in Rhode Island.

I've never been in this situation before, ... But hopefully the kids that get the opportunity to get in and play will do a good job.

Rutgers is a team that has been playing with a lot of confidence. On film right now they are a 4-2 football team, just like we are.

One good thing is I don?t give a (crap) about the statistics this week.

The more I study (Nixon) on tape, I think be can be become a dominant cornerback. He's a guy that will come up and hit you.

Anything we want to do offensively he can do, ... That's why he's our starter this week.

That's news to me if Marvin's the starter.

That shows his toughness. He hurt it early in the game, but he stayed in because of his attitude and commitment to his teammates.

You're not game-planning for your defense. You're just trying to install your base protections, your base running plays, your base passing plays.

You're allowed to have 85 on scholarship come August. It doesn't matter how many you sign as long as you're at 85 come preseason practice. Believe me, it's been thought out. I did get a degree. I know how to add and subtract.

The university has a very stringent Student Code of Conduct. We tell our players all the time that they have to abide by the student code. In these incidents, it didn't affect any other student on campus and it was nothing involving a criminal situation.

A lot of these kids get rated in their junior year. There's a lot that happens between a kid's junior year and their senior year in terms of maturity, development and understanding the game. ... The ratings and all those things, that stuff never bothers me because we're going to make our evaluations.

There were some positives. No one got hurt.

There's a bigger transition period for a kicker. You're used to kicking off a tee in high school. You don't have the same rush. You don't get in as many pressure kicks. It takes maybe two years for a kicker to get everything underneath him. If you can get three solid years out of a kicker, I think that's a lot.

They're a much different team than we played a year ago - a much improved team. We know they're going to be disciplined. They're going to be well-coached. They're going to play hard.

They're all pretty excited about it, but they also understand the practice squad can be a week-to-week thing,

There?s a lot of work to do, no question, just like the other 116 Division I teams in the nation.