Aug. 27, 2010

"We had another good night. We had a couple of lulls but we were able to pick it up and get going again. I really liked the effort we saw across the board tonight. Our punting game was really good tonight. Ryan Allen has a little bit of a tweak and sat out tonight but Stuart Scurria punted great and Cade Glasgow punted great. I was really pleased with both of those guys picking up where Ryan's left off."

"Steven Ensminger was sick today so he didn't make it to practice but he should be back tomorrow and it shouldn't be an issue. That gave a lot of reps for Ross and Colby and both of those guys played great tonight. The thing that great teams have to do is if somebody's down, someone else has to step up their game and play at a high level. The good thing is I think that competition has been good to us for that. I f somebody goes down, we have someone waiting to step up and take their place."

"I told the team at the beginning of camp that the third week would be the week that would make or break them as a team. This has been a really good week. We've put together four really good practices back-to-back-to-back. I couldn't be more pleased with that because the third week is tough; guys are beat up and worn out. I feel like we're in a really good place right now and it is just a matter of continuing to improve. We need to have a really good day tomorrow. We're going to do a lot of game prep things tomorrow - we need to be really sharp in those - and then we'll take Sunday off. We'll rest and recover a little bit then we'll come back on Monday and pick it up again."

On Team Captains:
"I think it is a great honor. Adrien Cole, Tank Calais, Rob McGill and Josh Victorian are our four permanent captains. When your teammates vote for you, it's a huge honor. It shows that they have respect for you and the team respects the work they have put in and their leadership. I feel good about all four of those captains. I think they are guys that are going to work well together and lead our football team. We're certainly going to rely on their leadership and effort this year."

"We also have five game-to-game captains that we will rotate though. Myke Compton will be week one, Ross Jenkins in will be week two, Roosevelt Falls will be week three, Jay Dudley will be week four and Phillip Livas will be week five. Those guys will help represent us at the coin flip and it is a great honor for them."

"I've always thought it was important to have your team captains established as the season starts and we wanted to honor the guys that had a lot of votes as well. I feel good about all of them and I think it's going to be good to have four permanent ones and rotate ones from week-to-week. We'll also have some coaches' choices as well mixed in there. I think their leadership is going to be real important to the development of our football team."