I think our guys have an attitude about them (heading into the bowl) to play tougher than what they've shown.

The last couple of games, we had a lot of (the same) goals, but one thing we haven't done is have more big plays than the other team. We operate on big plays. We need those big plays to happen.

Coming out of last spring, we had a lot of confidence in John Parker and what he could do. If Brodie could not have gone the distance, we could have won a lot of games with John Parker.

I'm ticked off. Sometimes, you have days where it all sums up to an inefficient day. We haven't had that day yet. Today was the day.

I don't think so. Running through the game plan in my head, each one is different, but they're the same in that we feel like we have an offensive scheme we like to use that our guys understand. I don't see it changing a lot.

For me to come say 'Yeah, I taught him how to coach,' that would not only be laughable, but inaccurate. He had, in my opinion, that mental and emotional makeup at (age) 18.

There will be some changes, but it depends on your point of view. Some of those plays we tried to work with Tyrone are not going to be available. There may be some other special types of plays we can do with other players, but as far as Tyrone being a triple threat -- because we even kicked around letting him throw a pass -- it's not there.

Please tell him that we are so very proud of him. And I don't even know how he did today.

We have a more complete way to cover game situations when we have the field to our unit.