Their ability to throw the ball against us was the difference. We've seen things that we can work on and fix. Once we shore up our pass defense, we think we'll be OK.

We're ahead of where we started last year and we feel much, much better about ourselves. Last year they just shredded us.

It gives us a chance to evaluate everyone's riding ability.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better

This game should be a good opportunity for us to work on several things. We still have some work to do to become a 40-minute defensive team.

We knew we would have our work cut out for us this year. We lost a lot of leadership to graduation last year. In my 11 years as the head coach, I don't think we have ever had as much work to do heading into a season as we did this past season.