The challenge here is to win, to compete for the conference championship and to go to bowl games. Yeah, I love it here. I came here because I'm a football coach and I want to help the University of Idaho become successful.

The greatest thing that's happened to me is Nick Holt leaving so I can come back.

You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him, huh? Who made that up, Winston Churchill ?

Him missing 2? weeks in the preseason really hurt him and set him behind,

I haven't seen them on the field. When you look at it on tape, when you win two football games, you haven't done a lot of good things, to be honest.

I'll have to talk to him it's the first I've heard of it. We all make mistakes. It's what you do after.

I just thought it was an opportunity for me to come back, give back and get back to coaching college football ... my first love.

I'm happy for this opportunity to get back to college football, which has always been my first love.

I had the opportunity to meet all the candidates. George is the perfect fit for this job -- he knows Idaho, he knows the Northwest and he knows basketball. I welcome him as a colleague.

In four years, I thought we got them into a pretty good situation. In the fifth year, obviously, they took away our chance.