Chris Barrett Quotes (12 Quotes)

We've had two great weeks of practice. We're very excited about tonight's game. We're excited about an opportunity to beat a ranked team. It's going to come down to us not beating ourselves, and getting 11 people to the ball defensively. Last year, we didn't play real well against North Central.

The main thing I want to see next week is to maintain our work ethic, keep our positive attitude, and for us to realize there's plenty of games left on our schedule we can win. We just need to go get one of them,

We did come out with more enthusiasm and effort, ... But we hurt ourselves, and that sucked the wind right out of us.

He's a straight shooter and I respect his views, ... I like the fact that he's been in military service and he's sacrificed a lot a lot more than me.

We're a little behind schedule (in pre-registration), but then again the weather was all over the map. People were just trying to figure out whether it was outdoor or indoor weather. We usually like to be somewhere around 400 to 500 the day of the race. I don't know if we'll be there but that's where we'd like to be.

I think our reputation as a race is that we're pretty well recognized. I think the runners feel taken care of.

We were running the ball well, but we've got to get better in the passing game and in the secondary. Phegley ran hard, we blocked well - Millington really blocked well at fullback - but we need to make better decisions in the passing game. We have to be able to throw the ball.

We did not compete at all. We've got to take what we've learned in practice and put it to use, and we've got to play with heart and compete -- show up with the enthusiasm and the passion it takes to win.

Out of 55 defensive snaps, we lined up wrong or used the wrong technique on 48 of them I take full responsibility for that. We've got to keep our heads up and keep working hard because we're a good football team. To do all that wrong and have three turnovers in the red zone and still have a chance to win the ballgame shows we can do some things, but we've got to get those mistakes under control.

They're a good team. They execute well, and defensively they run well to the ball.

D.J.'s is one of our best linemen and obviously Josh is an outstanding running back. It changed our game plan a bit,

At times we did a lot of good things, ... Some weird things happened tonight and its kind of frustrating. We're going to figure it out and we're going to get it going.