Rocky Long Quotes (26 Quotes)

He is a difficult assignment especially because of the way they can throw and run the ball. You don't stop those kinds of guys, you just hope to control them enough to give you a chance to win.

It's not necessarily a disadvantage to play so quickly, but it will be tough. They're a very talented team, so we're going to have to make a lot of improvements and be extremely focused with the time that we do have this week.

In my opinion Utah, last year, could have played with any of those guys and had a legitimate chance to beat them. I'm guessing that none of those guys wanted to play them either.

It's very exciting for us, as a coaching staff, to have so many guys get invited to the combine. That's never happened before and is a compliment to the work we've done here. That would have been unbelievable five years ago, but we've made a lot of progress and these guys have earned it.

(Wide receiver Johnny Lee) Higgins got a lot of attention last week because he scored three touchdowns, but Ebell can hurt you just as much. They don't run the spread offense, but they've got enough threats to stretch you across the field and make things difficult.

Students spend three or four hours of their time to beautify beautiful Albuquerque, and they get rewarded. It's one hell of a deal.

We're resilient. I think people were questioning that. I mean maybe even I was questioning it some. But they hung in there in some critical situations and overcame some real good players going out of the game for different reasons. And they overcame some bad breaks and turnovers. I just told them it won't go down in history as one of the great victories in Lobo football, but it was a damn nice victory for us.

They may not get as much attention, but scouts still go to those bowls so it was a very good opportunity for them.

We're at the mercy of TV. You want to be on TV.

We've got a game plan that we're comfortable with, but the rest is up to the players. It's up to them to step up and find a way to handle Missouri's offense.

We need a spark to get us to the next level. I thought we underachieved some this year.

He played most of the game, so we got a pretty good sense of what he is capable of doing from watching the tape. He'll definitely test our defense.

They hung in there in some critical situations. They overcame some real good players going out of the game for different reasons and overcame some bad breaks and some turnovers. I just told them it won't go down in history as one of the great victories in Lobo football, but it's a damn nice victory for us.

And I don't want to learn. We're kind of an old group. We don't have too many people who do it.

I was stunned he was interested in the job. I really meant it when I said he's the best offensive coordinator and play-caller I've ever seen. I think he was tired of sitting around playing golf and really wanted to get back into coaching.

I think anybody that's drafted late and makes a team is a big accomplishment. I look forward to his future. I think we all do.

Usually you can get a feel for them by the way they look and their personalities. There are some classic symptoms that can be easy to spot. There are some guys who probably hide it well.

The scouts and NFL executives all watch the practices real closely, so outside of the combine, it's the players' best chance to improve their draft status.

We've come real close three times to winning a conference championship and haven't won one yet. That means we're missing something. It might not be very much.

I think we've got it worked out, and they'll be able to come, but it might not happen. We hope they'll be here, but you can't deny them the opportunity to play in a bowl game. It's too important to their future.

Nobody has seen it enough yet to get a real good handle on how to stop it. As long as it's going to be effective, people are going to run it. We haven't stopped it yet, so we're still in the process of trying to learn how.

We're not giving up on the spread, but we're not afraid to use our old two-tailback set if our guys aren't producing.

People wonder sometimes whether we educate these guys because a guy slips up and makes a mistake. Well, we do extensive education. We cover steroids, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, domestic relations. We do extensive education with these guys, more than the student body gets and probably more than the general population ever gets. But for whatever reason, these guys are under more scrutiny, so we have to try to educate them.

We wanted to take seven to nine players from the junior-college level. The only drawback is that we wanted them here at mid-term (so they could participate in spring practice). A couple of them wont be here until after the spring semester.

They want to be able to check on football players because they don't trust us. I don't think it's that big a deal for us because - I hate to say it and ruin our streak - but we haven't had a positive steroids test in eight years.

We wouldn't have had a chance to travel, but we would have been able to play, and that's a pretty big deal for us.