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I'm not going to discuss it, but it was addressed, and I think the discipline was pretty serious.

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The road games at Florida and Virginia Tech, the rivalry games with Tulane, UAB, Memphis and East Carolina and challenging games with conference newcomers, Marshall, UCF and Tulsa to our schedule is not only great for our fans and supporters, but also for the community of Hattiesburg.

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We had another good day today. Especially following the off day Thursday, I thought we responded well.

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He's such a good player. We need to get a little more meat on him. He needs to improve his strength and weight this summer. But he's got solid feet and knows what he's doing. .. Before his career is over, he's going to be an all-conference player for us.

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The reason for that is we're still waiting on all the information from his physical to be evaluated and looked at closely.

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Thank goodness for the city of Memphis and especially the University of Memphis. I don't know what else we could do. I know our football team is very appreciative of everything Memphis is doing for us.

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He's gotten better. He's still got to be a better decision maker, but he's improved.

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It wasn't us that didn't want to play. We always thought it was a great series. The players enjoyed playing it. We'll pick up somebody.

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He's our starter because he's earned it. But like a lot of positions, there's competition there, and that's a good situation.

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I was disappointed in that penalty. ... He made a mistake. He threw a rabbit punch in the pile. He was frustrated and he lost poise, and you can't do that.

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There was a lot of good things that we did and the competition was good. I think we accomplished a lot out there.

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Shawn Nelson made some big plays at critical times and that was the key to us winning. I was happy with Dustin Almond's play and he also stepped up and made several big plays.

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It was obvious this was our first game.

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There's really not a lot I can say at this point. The decision was made ... after lengthy consultations with our physicians and several others. We were unable to reach a comfort level to move forward with the trade. At this time we felt we had to go in this direction.

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Today was a nice follow up to the first day. Things are coming together, as we install more of our system. It will be interesting to see how we respond on Friday, after Thursday's off day.

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Team meetings were held Sunday. Bower said the team would segue into its normal game-week routine today. The major exception Practices at 10 a.m. instead of the 330 p.m. work the team normally does in Hattiesburg. We're just trying to get on a routine, ... We didn't want to go one day at 10 a.m. and one day at 3 p.m.

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We did a good job on converting third downs we were perfect in the red zone in scoring.

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I like to watch junior tape, but I also like to get to know the young man. Being an athlete is one thing being a student and having good character is something else. How can you evaluate that after watching junior tape and maybe getting them on campus one or two times I'd rather be a step slower.

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I was proud of our effort. I thought we gave a winning effort in the game. We did a lot of good things, but some things we didn't do well at all.

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We do need to eliminate the 15-yard penalties, but I don't think that was a good call on roughing the passer against East Carolina. He was honest with me. I asked if he roughed the passer and he told me, 'Coach, this time I did not.' I watched the tape, and I believe him.

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I think kids get overwhelmed. You've got the text messaging, the recruiting services, the Internet, all the camps. I think a lot of times if a kid makes a commitment early, it's soft because it's so quick into the process.

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It's always exciting to get back on the field. It's a critical time of the year. You find out so much about your team and you're trying to improve.

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Obviously at this point in time, most of these kids have it narrowed down to a few schools at most. I think you just continue to sell your program. You continue to sell the strong points of your program and we think we've got a lot to sell.

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With all the adversity that everybody in New Orleans has gone through, I'm thankful to the city of Lafayette for opening their arms up to this bowl and hosting this game. Because if those things don't happen, there are two teams that are at home today.

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With Hurricane Katrina, our schedule was very hectic. But our guys battled through all of those times this season. After the hurricane, we became a closer football team and we rallied around each other.

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