John Bunting Players Quotations

Mark has a great reputation for developing players and forming relationships with players. He has good character, and other coaches that I have spoken with have nothing but high praise for Mark. His familiarity with Frank and the offense here will help with the transition, and we can be better faster because of his knowledge.

Our players know this dismantled us in the second half, ... I think they also knew we had a chance in the first half.

I think the improvement stems from more experience in our scheme. Also our players are becoming more mature and we have an eight-man rotation in our defensive front four. That has really helped. We also have more depth at linebacker and in the secondary.

We had one blip where we did not have the emotion necessary to play this game at a high level. What's important is that the team regrouped, the leadership came through, and the players came back.

We've got a schedule that makes sense. We have marquee teams on the schedule. It's one I think is very workable and one our players will enjoy, our fans will enjoy. It allows us to compete in the ACC and have a chance to win some non-conference games, but at the same time challenge our program and go to some places with great football tradition.

There's no doubt in my mind that we can get that done. We've got good enough players to get that done.