Famous quotes by Kirk Ferentz:
"Offensively, we haven't look that sharp since we got started in August. I'm not sure I can explain that. I thought the execution was a little crisper than it's been."
"We've already failed one challenge. Not so much on the scoreboard, but the way we performed that day."
"Everybody got distracted by last week's game. Last week's game doesn't mean crap. It's what you do today. It goes both ways on that one."
"We never looked comfortable. We never looked in sync. I'm sure some of that was our doing and I know for a fact part of that was there doing."
"Like any great player, you can't simulate them in practice,"
"We faced some adversity, and to respond in a positive way, that's good for everybody. Hopefully we learned something about ourselves."
"It was a strange feeling on the sideline. It was a strange deal. You mix in a couple three-and-outs and that really made it unusual or weird. It was one of those days."
"They were athletes, and they were leaders and competitors. That's the parallel, ... The other parallel is that none of them could throw, so it made it easy for us to know they weren't quarterbacks. They helped us in the evaluation process."
"That's just like a bus ride."
"Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences."