He contributes a lot, ... He's been a wonderful guy, does everything, weightlifting, been a good teammate for all the guys.

You all think I'm the first guy to ever coach against his alma mater, ... This happens a lot around the country.

It is embarrassing and I apologize because this is a guy we recruited. When you recruit one and they are troublemakers, or appear to be, it makes you feel bad, so we have to do a better job of recruiting the right kind of kids. We're going to mess up occasionally, like we did with this one guy.

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

To finish second in the SEC East is a wonderful season for our team. Obviously, we were not picked that high. To qualify for a bowl game, that was our big goal for our team. We felt it was achievable and realistic and our guys went out and won seven games to go to the bowl game.

He's a tough, good looking inside linebacker. He looks like those linebackers at Georgia and Tennessee and those other places.