Tom Craft Quotes (25 Quotes)

Then you had Colorado in there, Arizona State, Michigan and now Ohio State for the second time. That's not a realistic way to re-establish and develop your program.

We had about eight or nine (deep) plays called Saturday and Kevin's running for his life, ... That's going to happen sometimes.

When you've had a group like we've had, you can kind of have some liberty about adjusting quickly and knowing that it's going to be done with discipline,

We've got to worry about ourselves, not our opponents. I don't buy into that letdown thing.

We're going to zero in on some changes (on special teams). That needs to have some attention put to it, but I think it's something that we can fix. We should have done a better job. We have a lot of options. If it means that we've got to play more starting players (on special teams), then we've got to do it.

I'm concerned about (Hamilton). He had just gotten back into the swing of things and now he's had a setback. We want to make sure he's healthy and not try to bring him back too soon.

I'm not ruling out playing a team that we can measure ourselves against, but let's get some teams that we can match up with, that we have a chance against,

So I think we've learned our lesson. Unfortunately, here at San Diego State, it took us longer than that because we overscheduled, and we've locked into these games years in advance where we couldn't get out of them. That's what I realized when I came here, is that we couldn't get out of them. And now we've got to live with the results. And it hasn't been fair.

I still have reservations about West Los Angeles, ... I keep saying, don't tie us to the hip with West Los Angeles. Give us an out.

On Saturday, he wanted to go back into the game, because that's just how he is. But we had to be smart about it. The (injury) tightened up on him as the game went on. We asked him as we went into the second half if it was tightening up, and it was. Had it not been, there might have been a temptation to put him back into the game. As it is now, it's good we didn't, because we could have lost him for an extended period of time.

He's not a guy that's going to yell and holler out here. But behind the scenes, he'll definitely speak his word and it's powerful. I know the players respect him for it.

Replace those games with a schedule that was better for us, ... and we would have been in a bowl game the first two years here (2002 and 2003).

Three years ago when they came in and played us, it was a mismatch,

He really ran the ball tough. I think his presence is real obvious.

When you spend a lot of time on turf, it's hard on ankles, knees and hips. It does wear on you over the course of the season.

He's only been a starter at this level for (six games) and he's going to go through some learning experiences in the coming weeks. Outside of the two interceptions, I thought he had an outstanding game.

I thought we were a little hesitant (on defense) through the whole first half. Considering the poor field position we had, I thought we did a little better job in the second half. (But) we need to communicate better, too.

My philosophy is we're going to recruit against them but we shouldn't be playing them all the time.

John Beck doesn't have a good arm, he's got a great arm, one of the strongest in college football. He's very accurate, has an extremely quick release. He's one of the best I've ever seen.

They've got some great individual players -- and not just one, two or three of them. They've got them along the line, they've got them at linebacker and they've got them in the secondary.

It's a significant change in the structure of their offensive line and the philosophy to create wider edges for the ends, so they can't rush the quarterback. They make it almost impossible. And they're throwing the ball quicker this year.

It really made an impact on me about where we were with this program, and I think we've closed the gap over the last couple of years. So it should be an interesting game.

It's not a hard thing to figure out. This (schedule) is something that we got stuck with because of contracts that were done a long time ago. Right now, it's important for us not to focus on what the record is, but to focus on how we can get better each week so that when we have an opportunity on a level playing field, we can come out on top.

The injury has tightened up to the point now where I don't anticipate him making the improvement he needs to make to be available for Saturday, ... doubtful.

I'm not ruling out playing those types of teams in the future,