I felt like I had to get more into the game and stop standing still and just play my game.

I think it's nice that people are recognizing us for what we've done this season. I feel real good about that.

I think we did pretty good. We had to get back in our rhythm, but I think our progress was great for being out a whole week.

I can't think of a better Christmas present than this. To win this in my senior season is just fantastic.

The cool thing about Haskins is that he was basically colorblind. He never understood why white players couldn't play against black players and vice versa. It made no sense to him. He just wanted to find the best players he could recruit — no matter who they were or where they were from, as long as they had potential. It was as simple as that to him.

a real rattlesnake to play.