Bill Gray
Bill Gray
despite faces football front line offensive played step three time
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.
blocked consistent except extra field gave goal hurt improve kick miss plus points returns takes three yards
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.
game good healthy improved last played stayed three
The last three years we've played a I-A game, we've come back improved and stayed healthy and played a good game.
atmosphere enthusiasm expecting finished good great last opener saturday strong sure team won
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.
fact playing
They like the fact we're playing in a I-A environment,
anybody astounding behaves blame event lack lucky major nature past people view
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.
brings career chance good jones looking size
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.
ball change field fixing game landscape understood
The landscape of the field is fixing to change in a hurry. They all understood after the ball game we have a much, much steeper test.
becomes defined football freshman issue kids program
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.
arsenal finished forward looking plane taking
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.
brand group presence street visual web
Brian's group deconstructs the visual presence of the brand and re-creates it. More often, you don't know what will come out: street art, Web sites, a store, events.
break challenge defense good great job literally player proper ready stop sure technique week
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.
ends football game good love opportunity playing question
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.
kids talked
I've talked with our kids about this is a new season.