Sylvester Croom Guys Quotations

I have a great deal of respect for people who stay in a program without the benefit of a scholarship and go through the grind every day, just hoping for that one time when they are able to put a uniform on and play in the college game. There are a lot of guys around the country who do that, and you have a great deal more respect for those guys than the guys who play on scholarship.

We want to close this thing out with these guys this weekend. This is still key. We still have top guys visiting.

... We've got guys on our teams whose homes are gone, and everything they've got is gone, ... Most went at least 24 hours before they could even find out if their people were OK. To do what they did this week shows that we've got some great young people on this football team. I have so much respect for them. I don't know if I could have done it.

When we step between those white lines, the guys out there on the field are not going to be thinking about Hurricane Katrina or anything else.

I want to see how they do first semester of their senior year. That is huge. We've had guys we really liked, but then we find out mid-semester there's no way they're going to (qualify).

I'll tell you what. I have met old guys who played for him at Kentucky and I never met them before and let me tell you something, it's a calling card. If someone played for Coach Bryant, you immediately respected the guy.

The most impressive thing about our team right now is that we understand our schemes. We've been in it two years now, and the younger guys have grown up in our systems, and they understand what we're doing from a technique standpoint on offense, defense and in the kicking game. One big emphasis of the spring was that we really wanted to pay attention to details and do the little things right. We continued to work on being physically and mentally tough and on being a team that finishes plays and plays physical football. I think you saw that out there today.

We understand our schemes. We've been in it for two years now, and the young guys have grown up in our system.

All of our receivers are starting to look like the guys that you want.