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Where we're at right now, we need to play a game, ... I'm not quite sure right now what we're good at. We've looked really good at times doing certain things and the next day we don't do so good doing that. It's really been pretty much inconsistent.

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The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and who not to recruit. Is that a good thing I'm not sure, but it is reality.

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We faced some adversity, and to respond in a positive way, that's good for everybody. Hopefully we learned something about ourselves.

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You look at the whole season, we experienced some ups and downs. The bounces didn't go our way at times, but guys never hung their heads and never got discouraged.

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We're real pleased with Albert's start to the season, certainly, and we've had good feelings about him for three years now, ... It's exciting to have him out there on the field, but all it does is enable us to have a better chance to be more balanced. We certainly weren't able to get that done last year for obvious reasons, and I think this year, all of our running backs have really done a good job. They've been practicing well and it's probably been a bright spot on our football team.

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Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

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I think the key thing probably was the leaders on our team. After that day was over and we came back in on Sunday, I think the leaders chose to look forward rather than backward, and we really didn't dwell on the circumstances in terms of what our record was or that we were going to walk into two tough situations. We knew we had two tough challenges ahead of us and just got back onto focusing on what we could do to get back into winning ways.

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I think we're ready to play. You hit that stage where it's time to go. We've been practicing. I'm sure (Florida) feels the same way. We're all looking at each other funny now. It's just time to go.

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I thought we were better (offensively this week). I'd preface that, or maybe (put an) asterisk (by it and say) it would be hard not to be better. We at least looked a little more like a cohesive offensive football team.

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It sounds like right now they're committed to Troy Smith but it wouldn't shock me to see both in a game. That's a luxury you have when you have two guys like that.

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It's amazing when you go through their two-deep how many fourth- and fifth-year guys are there, and the offensive line is the focal point of that. They're not just older, they're experienced and good football players that are aggressive and tough. It will be a challenge for us up front (on defense).

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They may alter or modify the BCS, none of that is going to affect how we approach things. We're worried about our performance, and based on Saturday we have a lot to worry about.

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It'd probably be hard to find a college game with better linebackers on the field at one time. It ought to be exciting. Tough on the offenses - but it should really be exciting for the fans to watch.

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They looked like a legitimate top 10 team today. I don't see a lot of weaknesses on their football team.

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I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train, how to work and how to prepare myself for a game. They gave me so much, and I saw the passion they had for the game and for teaching it. What I learned from them led me to want to become a teacher and coach.

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Any concerns they may have had offensively coming in, it looks like they cured them today.

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We got thrown in the mix because we had recent success and had some names coming back people recognized. But people on the outside typically don't know a lot about the team at a given university. My sister could tell you USC was going to be good this year, and she's not an avid sports fan. After some obvious choices, people are just throwing darts.

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I mean this with all due respect, but it's really not on my laundry list right now. I've got a few other things that have moved in front of it. a I think it's more traditional than anything else, but I haven't really burned a lot of brain cells on that one.

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Two of them were really uncontested so we need to be concerned. Nobody is good enough to give up anything uncontested or free.

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They're probably emphasizing the return game a little bit more now, for obvious reasons -- the guys they have. A blocked punt -- I don't know what the percentages are, but I know it's bad. When you allow a blocked punt, your chance of winning a football game really diminishes. But right now, they're thinking more about returns. They may pull out that block for us, and try and test us again. It wouldn't surprise me.

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It's improving but the danger there is we can't fool ourselves and think our percentage (of signing top recruits) is going to be as good as some of the other schools. We have to keep recruiting the way we have been recruiting and looking for the same traits and attributes.

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I think turnovers a lot of time are, first of all, you give credit to your opponent they also have a hand in it. Then also, a lot of times it's concentration, so we need to do better there. As far as the rhythm, I think we're still developing as a football team. We've got some very experienced players playing for us who are for the most part doing a very good job, but we have a lot of new guys trying to fit their way in too. When you're doing that, you're always trying to establish your identity as a football team. I don't know how it is at other places, but I know if you look back at our teams the past three or four years, it's really been a process for us. We haven't just come out of the gate and been clicking right off the bat it's been more of a process than anything else. Hopefully we'll bring resolution to some of our problems here in the next week or two or a couple weeks.

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After what they saw (last week), I'm sure that'll give them more encouragement, and rightfully so.

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As you saw today, we haven't exactly got it mastered yet up front.

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We regret leaving the fans out of the mix. Like last year, we'll make up for it by staging a few events, which will include our fans, during preseason workouts late this summer.

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