Q: What's the tone you're trying to set with the players by dropping in on classes and through (strength coach) Mark Smith with workouts that are going on right now?
A: "Discipline and accountability. We need guys that are accountable in all areas. I don't believe you become accountable on Saturday. You become accountable by your actions on Monday through Friday. And that's not just practice. That's how you are on campus. That's how you are in the dorm rooms. That's how you are in class. We want our guys to be disciplined and accountable in all areas. I know they'll never be late for a football meeting, or an O-line meeting or a DB meeting. So I don't understand the mentality of you're late for a tutor or you're late for a class. It needs to be the same mentality towards football as it towards academics. We'll help cultivate that, and as you've seen some guys may not want to do that and they may not be here."
AMEN