Randy Walker Quotes (62 Quotes)

We've been on a rotation plan, and I'm not against that, ... I'm not sure you need five linemen to play every play. Getting the sixth, seventh, eighth linemen in bodes well for us down the stretch.

I liked the way we looked as an offense. I thought we were sharp and crisp and making plays.

I just didn't think we were rushing the ball as well as we could have. UCLA seemed to have made a lot of good adjustments against our running game.

After two years of working with Garrick, I truly believe he has a great future and can be a special coach. He has an impressive background, as a coach and a player, and he will be committed to excellence with our offense and quarterbacks. I'm excited about this move for Garrick and our football team.

We had expectations, we had high belief in ourselves. But prior to Saturday, there was nothing to confirm it.

Football coaches have long been the greatest plagiarists in the world. The spread offense made the defense play a little more fair. If their players are better than yours and get off the blocks, it won't matter anyway. But if you want to give your kids a fighting chance and not get outnumbered at the point of attack, there's some value in the spread offense.

We was worried to death about where we was gonna get ice. Man, I was wanting to hug Brother Billy when I saw that ice. We were glad somebody was there to help us.

I reminded them in the locker room, there's still a lot of football left in the season. This thing is going to be a wild race to the end, and hopefully we can keep getting better as a football team.

We've been rated pretty low before, and I don't get caught up in them. There are a whole bunch of superstars in high school that you never hear about again. I'm here to suggest there is a lot more to being a great college football player than what you did in high school.

We made some mistakes to let this thing get to where it was, but last time I looked, we had more points on the scoreboard. We were playing a top-15 team in the country, and that's no small achievement. It wasn't a work of art, but we won.

I believe it's gonna be one of those years where you could be 6-2 and be the Big Ten champion. I've said this since August at the Big Ten media luncheon. I think it's gonna be a very balanced, competitive year.

I couldn't ask for more from our defense. They scored a couple more touchdowns, they forced them to kick and gave us the ball back. Fifty points looks bad and they got some yards, but we've been in that game all year and we were today.

I don't know if I've ever had a game quite like that one. We've played a lot of games like that, so I guess I should learn to expect things like that.

Basically, he's told me he had no involvement in this murder, so we intend to plead not guilty and we intend to go to trial.

The last few years we've found ways to win some games,

We live by the sword and die by the sword. We executed an onside kick against Iowa to set up the winning touchdown, and without it we wouldn't have been here.

Bret comes to us as a highly regarded coach. Garrick has worked with him, as well as Mike Dunbar . He also received some high praise from Sean Payton (New Orleans Saints head coach), who was a part of my staff at Miami, and that meant a lot to me. Everyone is in agreement Bret will be a great fit for our staff. He has the background to do some great things with our offensive line and the offense as a whole.

Our defense kept giving us opportunities, but we couldn't get it going. In the second half, especially in the third quarter, we kept having mental breakdowns.

They have so many weapons, ... You could hand us their playbook and it wouldn't help.

Football is about confidence. Three or four weeks ago, we had none ... but it's started coming the right way. Now we are playing decisively.

They have a pretty big vision. Even if they put it all together, they can't move forward until we have permission to build something out there. But it makes sense to agree to sit down and talk about it now because it's something that really has potential.

People are stopping me on the street, ... Most people would drive by me the last few years and give me the obscene gesture. Now they're saying, 'Hey coach, great win.'

Fifty points looks bad, but we've been in that kind of game all year long. And we were in that game again today.

The Big Ten is probably too strong. College football has a certain amount of variability when it comes to who plays for the national championship, but if you look at the Big Ten and the quality of football, it is as good as it has ever been. The trouble is, you show up every week, and it's tough.

I want them to be there next time.

Playing a top-15 football team in the country, not a small achievement. But we do have a way of making it interesting. 'Why can't we do this easy' I kept saying in the fourth quarter.

I keep being reminded about how tough the remainder of our schedule is. But we just need to worry about us, not about who we're going to play.

It would be like the World Market Center and the (Las Vegas Motor) Speedway.

McCarran continues not only to welcome but also to aggressively seek such new air carriers to help provide the airlift that is so vital to our community. As such, we are pleased to learn that Virgin America -- a well-funded new airline with an experienced professional management team -- may be interested in serving Las Vegas.

I thought both defenses played better than the score indicated. I think our defense, which was much maligned, gave us a chance to win. They made some plays.

You have to cover. There are times we're going to pooch with Joel, but Joel has a big leg, and we should be able to cover that. I'm not going to continue to give guys the ball at the 30.

When we bought it, there was no recognizable standard in place for utilities, the runway and for many of the buildings. Anytime you go from old dilapidated and crummy to new, it's going to cost something. We've given tenants at the airport the opportunity to lease something new.

Matt, of course, worked three years for us as a graduate assistant and I am well aware of his background and talents. I always try and keep an eye on young, talented coaches, and it was an easy decision to hire Matt. He'll hit the ground running with his previous experience at Northwestern and with me. We're all excited to have Matt back as a part of our staff.

I'm always the bad guy. I tell the staff and the leaders of the team, 'It'd be nice if some of you would take a little of that on.' I feel like the Wicked Witch of the West all the time, but I'm not afraid of being unpopular. I worry about trying to do the right thing.

If they knock you out in the first round, they do not let you come back and keep fighting. We have to make sure the game goes four quarters.

It doesn't hurt to have a four-year starter at quarterback,

If there's any justice, ... this kid is going to have a heck of a year.

If it hadn't been for him, I'd be dead right now and I know that. I'll go to court for him or whatever it takes. I don't want to let him down as much as he has done for me.

It's an issue that we need to look and we need to look at the depth and breadth of the issue and come up with strategies to try and make sure we have the fuel we need to continue to fuel this economy.

We told him a long time ago that the building had to be torn down and he'd get a minimum of three years' notice. He actually got an extra year out of it.

That's a bad memory. Obviously, we didn't play as well as we needed to, but it was a lot tougher than it should have been. It would be a place I'd really strongly encourage them taking a neutral crew.

I've made clear my commitment to Northwestern. I'm not a 1-800 guy, calling everybody. Does everybody have a price Sure. But there's a value in the kind of kids I get to coach, the institution I represent, where I live. I don't know if there's a better job.

In terms of depth this will hurt us, but we have guys who can step up.

He's been out of the mix for a long time.

I think it was a good week for us. We accomplished a lot with some of the practice we had in the off week. We're trying to improve our execution and do the little things a little bit better. ... We think we can correct some of the problems we faced in the heartbreaking loss to Penn State.

That's an explosive team with a lot of weapons. Once they got a lot of momentum, they had us on our heels.

We've seen 25 percent more orders and order values over the past six months.

Defenses loves preparation, they love repetition.

It's unfortunate 50 points will have to go into the record book. I thought both defenses played better than the score indicated.

You're not sleeping in your own bed. You have some typical logistical issues that are gonna take you out of your normal routine. We have a young football team and I've tried to explain to them how important it is to be able to handle these 'adjustments' the right way.