Quotes by Dave Rader

“We progressed the other day. Guys were making plays, catching the ball, doing things right. They come to the stadium today and the only people fired up may have been the people here from Middle Tennessee or Southern Miss.”

“Im ticked off. Sometimes, you have days where it all sums up to an inefficient day. We havent had that day yet. Today was the day.”

“I dont think so. Running through the game plan in my head, each one is different, but theyre the same in that we feel like we have an offensive scheme we like to use that our guys understand. I dont see it changing a lot.”

“There will be some changes, but it depends on your point of view. Some of those plays we tried to work with Tyrone are not going to be available. There may be some other special types of plays we can do with other players, but as far as Tyrone being a triple threat -- because we even kicked around letting him throw a pass -- its not there.”

“We have a more complete way to cover game situations when we have the field to our unit.”

“The last couple of games, we had a lot of (the same) goals, but one thing we havent done is have more big plays than the other team. We operate on big plays. We need those big plays to happen.”

“I think our guys have an attitude about them (heading into the bowl) to play tougher than what theyve shown.”

“For me to come say Yeah, I taught him how to coach, that would not only be laughable, but inaccurate. He had, in my opinion, that mental and emotional makeup at (age) 18.”

“Coming out of last spring, we had a lot of confidence in John Parker and what he could do. If Brodie could not have gone the distance, we could have won a lot of games with John Parker.”

“Please tell him that we are so very proud of him. And I dont even know how he did today.”