"Dave is an individual I have coached with in the past, and someone who I have the utmost respect for as a coach and as a person. He has a tremendous amount of experience at coaching offense at the Division I level, and has ties to the BIG EAST Conference as a player and a coach."

"I think the defense had a little bit to do with that. When the ball got out in space, they got there quick."

"It's an extremely great class for us. This year's class builds on our previous two and has established a foundation for us to build championships."

"I am very excited about this class because we have guys that can contribute now with the young guys that now have experience after one year under their belt."

"It's not just another game, it's a huge game on our schedule. We'll measure our success as a football team against that game, and we always will."

"I firmly believe if we get that ball in there, it's a football game. I don't know if we were going to win, but it's a football game. ... We weren't the same team in the second half."

"You'll probably see him play three positions out there (today). That's something that's a positive for him. He's a football player, we just need to find him a role and allow him to grow into that role."

"It was very bad for our players. It had a tremendous impact on the game, huge. We're about to score, then they go 98 yards very quickly and it's 18-7 instead of us leading 14-12. I firmly believe that if we had gotten it in the end zone there it's a football game. I don't know if we would have won, but it's a game. Even at that, we were still in it at halftime. But we weren't the same team in the second half."

"He plays consistently. We've got to get all of our football team playing like that."