On his first impression of Josh Heupel:
“I like him a lot. I met him in the football locker room the first day he was here and he was on the court the other night. Just spending a little time with him he’s a lot like Danny White. It takes me back to where I was at Providence or Clemson; they just want a chance where they want to come into a situation like this and make the program better. I like the fact that they think they’ve got a great job. They know what this place can be and they want to be a part of bringing this place back to be what we all want it to be. I can only speak from when I was at that age that you’re not afraid to compete. I think these guys are going to get us into the fight and that’s what we all want. Being around him and Danny, I’m impressed with their fire and enthusiasm on wanting to get things done.”
On wanting to get more out of Yves Pons and John Fulkerson and how they did that on Saturday night:
“We talked about drawing the line and it was directed at those guys quite a bit, to be honest with you. I thought both of them responded in a great way because of what we expected from them from the get-go. I thought they did exactly what we needed them to do. It goes back to having to do it again and again.”
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