For people to say he's staring at the receiver ... in our offense, he's making his reads. He's doing exactly what we've taught him.

He's just comfortable with everything. Last year was still a learning process. You saw he had all the ability in the world, much like Andy. At the same time, it's a process. It's just a matter of getting comfortable with it. Now he knows the offense as well as anybody.

I told them, 'Sit down, because I've heard you brutalize a guy who won 300 games and three national championships and I know you'll get me one of these days, too.

I told the kids in our meeting Friday night that we can't have any more freshmen. We have to grow up and become sophomores and juniors. It's easier to say than do. But you can't explain how important experience is. We just don't have a lot of it. These games are learning experiences for us.

The good news is, we'll be very fast. The bad news is, we may not survive physically. No one wants to play on that stuff. No one.

We put Sonny in positions last year I would never want to put a first-year quarterback. We threw 51 times against Maine, and he threw for 415 yards that day. We didn't have the same running game we had the year before or we'll have this year.

We were working through some things. And when you work through things and beat a good football team, so much the better.

We really think he has a very bright future if he keeps developing.

I think he'll tell you we treat him like we didn't know who he was. I don't know if he appreciates that or not. We coach Sean very hard.

People are innocent until proven guilty, but due to the severity of this situation, we are suspending these three immediately. If any of the three is found to be involved in this crime in any way, each will be terminated.