David Gibbs Quotations

Make no mistake about it, this is without a doubt the most talented, physical offensive football team we've seen this year, ... It's not even close. I don't care what their record is or how bad USC beat them.

My first year here we made 230-some 3-pointers, and these guys are a little behind that. We do rely on the three heavily, but then again we're vertically challenged. So we need the 3-point shot to even things out against bigger teams.

He's continued to get better and better and better. Different guys are going to play out there. Whoever's No. 1, whatever that means, there'll be more than one guy out there.

He's as good a nose guard as I've seen in college football. For him not to be mentioned up there with the best football players in the country is crazy to me. He dominated everybody that he played against this year. Anybody who watches film knows that.

I watched her mother sobbing over her dying daughter. We walked out into the hallway and Mary said to me, 'David, I'm no lawyer and I'm no doctor. But I don't understand why they have to kill my little girl.' That's the troubling moral dilemma. Why, with family who wanted her, did Terri have to die this horrific death?

I thought our whole defense was average at best at every position. There were some guys I thought played really well, but I'm not going to name any names.

It appears that that will be the last meaningful legal appeal unless something comes up, ... Fundamentally, the decision of the Florida courts will remain unchanged and the federal courts have declined to get involved.

Tristan came back yesterday and looked sharp. He understands and still remembers some for the defense. We'll keep working with him and go from there.

We have three great coaches on defense that could all be coordinators.

We needed to do a better job physically in the paint and not just from a couple guys, the whole group. R.J. can sure shoot it, he gave us some big baskets, and Mario worked very hard. We just needed one more guy to step up.

You have to commit extra people to stop the run and they know that. They are going to take their shots, ... You have to be lucky. You have to get pressure when you can. They make it hard because everything they do looks like a run. You can't sell out against the run so much that you're not sound against the pass. There is a fine line there. There are no magic answers.

We started so slow and they started so fast. We can't put our offense in that kind of hole.

We try to stop the running game. From that point, we defend everything else. If you can't control the run, they can do whatever they want. Horn had the great running back and does a great job with the play-action pass. We had to try and take away the run and make them one-dimensional.

I've been fortunate enough to have some people call me and ask questions and see if I'm interested. Right now, I haven't made any decisions. By no means do I want to hurt Auburn. Right now, I'm planning on being at Auburn unless something happens.

It would be different if I was stepping into a place where they'd been terrible on defense and had a whole bunch of turnover within the staff. But the three coaches back are good football coaches and nucleus of our defense is back. I'm just going to go out there and try not to mess it up too bad.

put to death in such a barbaric fashion.

Why Michael won't let them do that is not understandable. It would be so easy for him to get on with his life ... so these parents could take care of their daughter.

I've always been on the field. The guys I grew up under always did it. The guys who taught me what I know were on-the-field guys. That's my background. I don't know the other way. I guess everybody here has been upstairs.

I kind of got a feeling this morning when I talked to his mom. She said he got up early and was ready to play. Good. It never hurts when your best shooter in the league is ready to play.

Don't count him out. He's in the mix too,

The kids have done a great job picking up the scheme, ... We had to teach them responsibility on defense. Sometimes you want to play for yourself as opposed to other people. The first thing we did was talk to them about being selfless, as opposed to being selfish. We printed out articles and gave them the definition to put in their lockers.

I know one thing these guys are well-coached and they're going to come after us. Anybody who falls for that I-AA thing is in for a rude awakening.

I hope and pray that Terri's legacy is while she had to die, in a sense she was a martyr to protect the rights of many people who otherwise would not have a voice.

By what moral authority does America let this girl die?

He throws the ball better than Ball does and runs just as well. Maybe we will have learned from our experiences.

It's a mindset of theirs where they believe they are physically tougher than you are, mentally tougher than you are, and they try to take it to you. That's a challenge for us.

There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.

It's a great stadium, great crowd, ... That's what Auburn football is about. But it's unacceptable to lose at home and that's what we did. It can't happen anymore.

It's not fair to Brandon Cox and our offense to get in a hole 10-0, ... It's not acceptable and can't happen any more. I thought we were passive, especially early. It allowed the quarterback to get in a rhythm and have some easy throws. Once our guys got their confidence and started tightening down, I thought we did okay.

They have big, huge offensive linemen that are tough and physical.

They are candidly pleading for the very life of their daughter.

It was fun right up until kickoff. Right up until (Georgia Tech's) 16-play drive for a touchdown, it was real fun, ... Then it wasn't fun anymore.

This was a difficult decision to make but after examining what was best for myself and my family, I have accepted a position with the Kansas City chiefs.

This was the perfect opportunity to get closer to her home.