The last three years we've played a I-A game, we've come back improved and stayed healthy and played a good game.

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.

This is likely to go on for a while.

He (Adcock) probably has a leg up on Parker right now, ... But there's no question that both of them will see a lot of playing time this year.

He's the consummate freshman football coach. When you listen to Fred talk to his assistant coaches about who they should play, it's all grade-point averages and who will play varsity as a senior.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They like the fact we're playing in a I-A environment,