Leadership. That's No. 1. Leadership. A good quarterback has got to have a presence of command, that without saying a word he convinces everyone in the huddle and everyone on the field that he's the man in charge.
I felt like we had a good game plan set up. It just didn't work to our advantage in the third quarter. We kind of had a meltdown and that was a very pivotal series for us.
If I had to say anybody had a little bit of a lead right now it would be Bernard Morris. He would have a slight lead over the other two. But Derek had a good week of practice last week.
(Ian) really got into that ball, didn't he. I thought he (Ian) did a very good job today. Sometimes, competition can bring that out in you.
He's adapted to that new position well, which is really going to help him come fall. We'll be very deep at linebacker this year. I feel very good about the position.
We are playing a very good football team. One of our goals last week was to stop the run and we didn't do it, in my opinion. If we don't do it this week we will see nothing else.
We try to take a day to work on ourselves and some on UCF and we had a good practice. Right now, I'm just concentrating on Marshall, whether they win, lose or draw tonight (in the UCF-USF game). Our focus was pretty good, special teams got it going and we went from there.
We didn't miss a beat with Jimmy coming in the game. When you have two quarterbacks to play, you must be a pretty good football team.
They take some shots and Higgins is having a good year, ... What (UTEP) coach (Mike) Price has done is put his playmakers in position to make plays. He'll return punts and kicks and he's definitely their go-to receiver that can make it happen for them.
They take some shots and Higgins is having a good year. What (UTEP) coach (Mike) Price has done is put his playmakers in position to make plays. He'll return punts and kicks and he's definitely their go-to receiver that can make it happen for them.
I'll be surprised if Ian Hoskins doesn't have a good spring.
Absolutely he needs to have a good spring. He's a big guy and it's an important spring for him.
It will develop depth and it will make him a better player. It's always good if a young man can learn two positions. What you like to do when you have a seasoned football team is have players who can learn two positions and we're getting where we can do that.