"Mike Ayers" is the current head football coach of the Wofford College/Wofford Wofford Terriers/Terriers located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He has filled the position since 1988. Wofford College, with an enrollment of 1,550 students, is one of the smaller National Collegiate Athletic Association college football schools in Division I (NCAA)/Division I. The Terriers compete in the Division I (NCAA)#Football Championship Subdivision/Football Championship Subdivision as members of the Southern Conference.

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I know it sparks me. Just seeing him run around and be a goof. He hits people, fights people, then jokes about it in the locker room. He's a character guy, an energy guy.

I'm not really an injury type of guy. This year it seems like I'm getting the brunt of it.

My head was turned toward the puck and I saw him out of the corner of my eye. He got a pass, the puck was in front of him. I don't think it was a dirty hit. Stuff like that is going to happen in this game.

We were coming back (in 2002) and not a lot of guys were heralded as big time players and we were flying under the radar. Things start happening, we gain some momentum, win a couple of big ball games, you never know.

Defensively, the kids came ready to play.

Just all muscle-related stuff in my neck and back. Nothing was broken, thank God.

They should never trade a guy like that, because every night he puts it on the line. He's fun to watch, especially how small he is and how he dominates.

Offensively, we just didn't execute at the level that we needed to. There were too many bad snaps and too many guys taking wrong steps, and that's a problem. And we just didn't play with the intensity that we needed to.

It's a pretty day, but the football wasn't as pretty as we would have liked.