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I thought last week (at Houston) we should have played everybody that was there, but the situation wasn't quite right or they weren't quite ready.

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When you have three weeks to prepare, you draw some things up in the dirt. Unfortunately, in the end, they were just better than we were.

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He has that inner strength, a reservoir of determination inside. He has very strong faith and sees it as just another trial he has to face.

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A couple of times he's made runs that brought our entire team to its feet.

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He is a tough, strong runner. He has to learn to run more with his eyes than his brute strength ... so he can avoid some of that contact because after you run over two or three guys, it can slow you down. He needs to use his eyes and make some people miss.

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The main emphasis point will be to evaluate newcomers and the second-line guys that we're looking to go in if somebody gets hurt.

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He's a prankster, a practical joker to the max. ... He created a lot of funny stuff, stuff we still laugh about.

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The one thing they could tell me they could hang their hat on was, they had never fired a coach. They had always let him finish out his contract. It's very interesting that the next coach they hired, they didn't allow that to happen.

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We do physical exercises where he can gauge a little bit their physical toughness and their leadership and their commitment to it, but (now) he gets to coach real football. That's what's exciting.

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I think that we've probably, more than any other time than I've been here, addressed specific position needs.

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A lot of draft-day geniuses erupted.

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Dennis has been the starter the entire time, and he is the starter. We have just tended to play our backup more than other people are maybe comfortable with doing. I don't know that that's going to change.

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I didn't quite understand the Notre Dame deal. But obviously I have not been a student of the BCS.

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Two years ago, I considered going to this offense, and I kind of kicked myself for not (doing it).

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We're down to barely a two deep.

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But I do think overall they are probably more creative in finding ways to win and supporting each other -- offense, defense and special teams. It's a balanced football team because we can look a lot of places for people who will win this game.

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It's nice to climb back in this Pac-10 race.

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He doesn't go down, he doesn't give up. He doesn't believe anybody can tackle him. ... You've got to gang-tackle him and you've got to hang on.

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I think it was a wakeup call. I've said for a couple of years, oftentimes I got the impression some kids that come here felt just by putting on the uniform we were going to win games.

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I'm not saying we're not trying to get the big names, but we worry less about the name-recognition value or the number of stars behind a name. We look at films, and we look at people that can fit into what we're doing. These guys, offensively and defensively, will fit into the scheme of what we perceive we need to do in the future to be successful.

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Last year I changed our vision of what we were going to recruit in preparation of what I knew we were going to do. That's why we didn't take a quarterback last year. The guys that we could have taken would have have fit into this mobility scheme that we have. And these guys, they fit that.

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Jackie, having played two years in the program, needs to step up and I think he's ready to do that.

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We are doing a little bit of old Oregon Duck football, a little bit of Utah, Bowling Green, Northwestern, a little bit of BYU, Texas Tech passing game from years past, and rolled it all into something we are calling the new Oregon offense. It is something that has been bits and pieces that has been on my desk for about 212 years now, and now I kick myself because I think I should have done it sooner.

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There are a lot of seniors and, as I've said before, those seniors are coming to the forefront because they are also our performers and our contributors. Their voice, their word, carries more weight because they are also doing it on the field.

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They're arguably one of the best offensive lines, not just in the nation, but in the history of college football.

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