Vic Koenning
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"Vic Koenning" is a former professional American football player, and currently serves as the co-defensive coordinator at Troy University. He was the interim head coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2011 and was the head football coach at the University of Wyoming from 2000 to 2002, where he compiled a record of 5–29.

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We've got some answers with some guys who have played this position before. We have confidence in those other guys that have played when that time does come up.

We're going to put it on those two guys, but frankly, I think there are some other guys that can step up and get there, too.

I'd really rather have a four-man front, have a couple ends to go 'sic 'em and have interior guys get in the step-up lanes. We just haven't gotten that yet.

I'm anxious to watch these guys play. We have set the bar high, and we're going to push to reach it.

We were trying to see what the limits were on guys. That's one of the things you do. He's been in good shape.

This defense is being built for the long term, I'd say, as much as it is the short term. I know that we need to compete right now, and I'm not making any excuses for what might or might not happen. But there's a lot of talented young players.

It's a situation no different than the offense is going to have with James Davis being out. Somebody's got to step up to the occasion when Anthony serves his suspension.

So I said, 'Well, I'll try it,' and we proceeded to string four (wins) in a row together, and it becomes one of those deals where you don't ever go back.

Now they're starting to understand why we're doing things, not just, 'What's my assignment?' So I think it will start coming along faster. Early on I think we had a bad approach, and you can blame me. The players were trying to memorize everything.