We needed to get a win, and that was the big thing ... . We could feel it on the sideline. Our guys said, 'We can run the football on these guys,' and they did a nice job.
"Charles Franklin "Chuck" Long, Jr." is an American football coach. He played quarterback in college at Iowa Hawkeyes football/Iowa for Hayden Fry and professionally with the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams. He is an inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame. In the January 2008 issue of San Diego Magazine he was chosen as one of the "50 People to Watch in 2008". He was fired by San Diego State University as its head football coach on November 23, 2008. Long was the offensive coordinator for the Kansas Jayhawks under head coach Turner Gill. before Gill was fired in 2011. As of summer 2013, he is an analyst for the Big Ten Network
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Paul's worked extremely hard and has shown excellent play in practice and in scrimmages. Paul will probably get that opportunity at another time.
He was very limited in the game and we felt like he deserves a better chance. So, we're going to start him in this game and go from there. We'll keep it open-ended and see what happens in the football game.
He (Bomar) is like a wild colt, ... He's good, but you have to hone his skills and that's what I'm trying to do. And it takes time.
Rhett has a tendency, like all young quarterbacks, to go in there and try to do everything at once, ... He'll want to get it all done in one quarter, and we're going to give him more time than that.
We felt like he didn't get enough snaps in the game, ... We want to give him a chance to play and play through some mistakes.
It (the offense) may look vanilla, but that is the way we're going to be, ... We have to think about our players first and think about having a young freshman quarterback.
I told them after the game that you might have outside influences who try to split you apart, but the important things you need to stay together.
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