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    I thought Jefferson played pretty well for us, ... Although there were some balls that he probably would like to have back. But I was proud of the way he created plays for us.

    That's going to hurt us, ... He was a quality individual with an excellent work ethic. We're thin at running back, but hopefully this is a chance for someone to step up.

    He's the consummate freshman football coach. When you listen to Fred talk to his assistant coaches about who they should play, it's all grade-point averages and who will play varsity as a senior.

    We finished everything up, and hopefully, we are taking enough of an arsenal over there to get it done, ... We had a much better day today. We will get on the plane tomorrow, and we are looking forward to it.

    This is just the way nature behaves and I find it astounding how tremendously lucky this country's been in the past 20 years in the lack of a major landfall. People need to view this as a tragedy, an event of nature that occasionally occurs, and we shouldn't blame anybody for it.


    We are looking forward to going up there and seeing if our game plan on both sides of the ball is good enough to put our players in position to make some plays,

    Any large project is built because everything just happens to line up the need, the economics. If this became a priority with the state, with the federal government, with the local folks, it certainly could be built.

    I know they (Baylor) are expecting a good crowd, ... They have a lot of enthusiasm on their team right now. They finished strong last year, and won their opener on the road, so I am sure we will have a great atmosphere on Saturday to play in.

    All three phases, except punting, hurt us on Thursday, ... If you go and get a field goal blocked and miss and extra point, that takes points off the board. Plus we gave up a lot of yards on kick returns and we weren't really consistent on kickoffs. So really we need to improve in all three phases.

    We have to improve on all phases this week, ... We pride ourselves on special teams around here and we've had a couple of breakdowns. We've got to get that worked out.

    If it keeps up like this, I'm probably going to have to hire off-duty police officers to control it.

    A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.

    We have a big challenge this week in getting ready to stop a quarterback who's a great player and who is literally a D-I quarterback, ... He's been doing a good job for Furman and our defense has got to play proper technique on Saturday. We also have to communicate and make sure that we don't break our assignments.

    I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

    We are seriously hamstrung by injuries and illness right now, and there are some kids who found out at (2 p.m. Friday) that they were going to play. We're going through a real hard time right now. We just can't put a whole football team together at any one time.

    We have a defined clientele. The kids come to us. We have to take them and make them into football players. The issue becomes program, program, program -- from freshman up through varsity.

    Invoking the designs of old was classy, ... heritage of the employees is an important part of the corporate culture.

    Why did we sign up Because it's a business, and if you expect to go anywhere in this life, you've got to take a chance now and then.

    We practice no-huddle offense at the end of practice every day. You can't drop the snap on a play like that, you can't do it. I don't give a (darn) if it's high school you just can't do it.

    There's no question we have to do that to make ends meet. But it's also a good opportunity for our players. They love playing a I-A game. We've been able to come back from every I-A game a better football team.

    Our offensive line hasn't provided Forbes with the time he needs to throw and we have had success with our running game,

    He (Adcock) probably has a leg up on Parker right now, ... But there's no question that both of them will see a lot of playing time this year.

    Shawn Jones brings the size we are looking for on defense. He has a lot of intangibles that give him a chance to have a good career here.

    The last three years we've played a I-A game, we've come back improved and stayed healthy and played a good game.


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