Guy Morriss Quotes (21 Quotes)

We are just going to coach whoever shows up. If you are not here, you don't get coached. I can't worry about all that.

When you're recruiting, you sell everything you have and that definitely was a part of it. Our kids believed the coaches when we told them we are about to get it turned around. We're knocking on the door and our next step is that we need you to kick it do

In that case, it would have worked against us if they had reversed the call. I'm in favor of replay, and anything to help officials get it right. But I'm sure we will disappointed on the sideline at times, and there will be plays that go against us.

In terms of adding things from a scheme standpoint, there's not a lot left to do. We want to focus more on the details of what we already have in. They are starting to understand it (the new offense) and make adjustments on the run, which is good to see.

I think he's taken care of his core issues. A kid like him is so active, I don't think the break will hurt him.

It was a good practice. The receivers are getting a little worn down they run a lot in this new system, and we're a little thin at that spot. We'll probably get more of the big guys in tomorrow to give the receivers a little bit of a break. But we've put in two-thirds of the offense, and the guys are catching on pretty well.

Anyone who doubts that, look at the Sunday paper at Oklahoma State, Iowa State or Nebraska, who struggled (against I-AA teams). If we're not ready to play, we'll get our fanny beat. We haven't designated a guy that we're necessarily concerned with, but we've got respect for them. They do a lot of twists.

If we take these guys lightly, we'll have a dogfight. If we're mentally ready to play, I think we can take control early.

That will create some good competition at that spot and all those young men know if they don't win that job that they'll play somewhere else. All are athletic enough to play a lot of different spots.

Gary Joe is a young and energetic coach, a very good X and O man. He's an upbeat person and his personality should make him a very strong recruiter for our program. He's excited about coming back to Baylor and will relate well to our players.

We have to learn to play in games like that, with a good quality opponent and a lot riding on it, good prime time TV and stuff like that. That's what they ask for and that's what we talked about all week. This is why you come, for a game like this, and you've got to handle that atmosphere.

Today wasn't too bad. We had a couple of plays on offense where we got soft on our protection, but we were moving around pretty good. It has been a long, hot week.

I thought the defense ran around pretty good, especially in the red zone. It took us a little while to get anything going offensively. I'd like to see us be a little more consistent in our offense and move the sticks a little bit. We did hit some big plays, which is good to see.

Right now, we've got three big-time opponents coming up and I think our kids are going to play well. Whether we can beat them or not, we will find out but ... we've just got to go play.

When I came here, the players asked two things of me. They wanted to get rid of the gold pants and wanted to play in green helmets. The players went nuts when they went to the dressing room from the hotel Saturday when they first saw them.

It's been a long time since our folks have enjoyed football success.

I think we can play spoilers. If we can't go to a bowl, let's make sure they don't get to go to a bowl either.

The history here in the last few years has been such that they haven't enjoyed those kind of games and those victories. Hopefully we can give our fans the confidence that so they can expect more of that so we don't have to keep buying new goal posts.

Since the end of last season, the whole team has really started to buy into the whole message of doing things the right way. I haven't had any off-the-field problems. I haven't had to check rooms at night. They've been doing conditioning workouts at 6 a.m. four days a week. You can tell they've been investing some time in the weight room. We are starting to look like a football team is supposed to.

He's a young and enthusiastic coach who has a tremendous knowledge of the offensive system that we will be running.

We will continue to seek a 60-40 pass-to-run ratio moving forward. I believe Lee can take what we are doing and enhance it. Lee and I have a clear vision of the style of offensive football we want to play.