Bill Doba Quotes (31 Quotes)

He just made less mistakes. He was more aware of the offense and he did the little things, like throwing the ball on time. He's improved and improved his arm strength.

This is all preseason. How good is Idaho Who knows they might be real good. ... What matters at the end of the season is how many wins do you have

As the game wore on, we couldn't stop anybody. Credit to them.

I cannot adequately convey our thank you to the Cougar Nation and Pullman community for the overwhelming support they have shown our family through the many cards, letters and flowers we have received in recent months.

I was shocked. I thought we could compete better than that.

When (Mike Price) first hired Eric and then Aaron (Price), I was a bit concerned. But they were both really good coaches. They both gave Mike a ton of crap. ... 'What are you thinking That was stupid' They could say things we wouldn't. They weren't worried about being nice. They weren't worried about being fired because their mom would have come down and fired Mike.

Bump's been doing that all the time. We were going to put him in for one more. He was 11 from (setting) the school record. You know what He's got two more years. Records are made to be broken, and we didn't need to do any more.

Kids don't care. Whoever can take them down the field and score and help them win ball games, that's who they will follow. In talking to one of our players, they said, 'Coach, this ain't no church league.' We're trying to win ball games, and whoever can get the job done and do the best job is who this team will follow.

I've been in college football for 30 years, and it's as good as I've seen.

We still have high hopes for him. Our job now is to make sure he gets his class work done and maintains his eligibility. It's just that bone. ... They'll X-ray it every two weeks.

I think you are a little more nervous because you don't really know how your team is going to react. To be honest with you, Idaho scares the heck out of me. I know they're going to be fired up and it's a big game for them.

It is a good opportunity to take a veteran team down there. It'll be great motivation for our players all summer.

Intensity-wise I'm happy with the way they played. The defense was moving all over the field.

For these guys to come off two losses that were tough losses and play as hard as they did and as well as they did against the No. 12 team in the nation is a real credit to our players and coaching staff.

We just have found a way to screw things up at times.

I know playing two of the three Hawaii games in Honolulu will be something our players and fans will anticipate.

He just didn't feel comfortable on the run. He tried to accelerate through one time and it just wasn't there. He couldn't push off well.

This year, he's a lot more confident. He knows the offense well. I think he worked really hard this summer and improved his physical ability.

I don't blame him. I wouldn't trade either. ... He's just trying to win a football game.

We think so. We went one-against-one Thursday and Friday (of last week). We went 10 plays where they ran our offense against their defense and then we went 10 plays where we ran their defense against our offense.

I saw pretty good football today.

Hanging around these 18- and 20-year-old guys, you always feel young.

If (Brink) falls on his face, we're lucky as heck to have a darn good guy right behind him. It's a tough, tough decision. I love Josh like a son, and it's hard to tell a guy that the other guy's (it). But he's a man, and he was very good with it. He's still going to help this team and he's still going to compete for that job.

It's always a concern when it's a I-AA team that our team might look past them. They've got talent. ... We have to be prepared.

Judy requested a very private service for family only back in Indiana and I know our friends will understand and respect her decision.

It was a tough decision, because I love both of them.

We're a bigger, stronger team, and I think we wore them down in the late third and fourth quarters.

Normally, we would have played another Division 1-A (team), hopefully ... someone in the middle of the of conference in the Big-12 or Big-10, and I think you would have a little better understanding of where your kids are. But I think we know what we need to work on. We know what our strengths are.

He's a good player and a great competitor. No one took it (the loss) harder than him. He was really upset.

I'm really, really happy with three of those kids. Greg Trent is really strong. He just has natural strength and a lot of natural instincts. He can play now. Stripling is going to take a little time, and Evans is going to take a little time.

That was good, and what was really good was to see him make one under pressure in overtime when we had to have it done. That's almost like a game-winning situation, but that's quite a lot of pressure for a kid.