Ron Zook Team Quotations

He reminds me of Chris Leak, the guy we had at Florida. He's very athletic, very humble, and he's a leader. He was calling me and asking, 'How about this guy, how about this guy?' It's hard to get that team attitude today.

Our players should realize we can compete with a team that is ranked 15th in the country,

You look at that first half, and we were awful, ... We weren't pretty at times, but we're going to be a better team than people think we are.

We saw a lot of good things early on from the first team offense. When we got into the fast-tempo mode it caused the defense some problems.

There's no one on the team I know, and I've only been gone a year. What that tells me is that they're winning with a young team. And we're going to be a young team.

The way we handle adversity is going to determine what kind of team we are. I told them last night that this is our first true test of adversity and how we bounce back, how we handle it, and how we compete against a good Iowa football team will determine what kind of football team we are, and where we are at.

It wasn't my first consideration, ... But it was a consideration. It's particularly important when you're going into a new league of this caliber where you've got guys that have been in it and coached in it. There's definitely a respect anytime you know what a team is about or what a team can do and you know the personnel a little bit. It's very, very important.

I don't think there's any question that we were a better football team this week than we were last week. It's important that we played a lot of people. We're going to need those guys down the road.