We came down here with a little more confidence. We knew what they were going to bring at us, and what to do.

He's put in an awesome amount of time learning what he has to do.

We're like a wounded dog back in the corner. We're going to come out fighting.

We're a wounded dog backed in the corner right now. We're going to come out fighting. We've got some guys down, but you step in and you play as good or better.

Today could be your last day playing. So when we go out there to practice, we're going to practice like it's our last day. We're going to practice every day like that until Friday. And then Saturday we're going to tell Rutgers to bring it on, because we're waiting. We're ready.

We came into this year with the mind-set that we're going to play a team and an opponent, but we're not going to play the name on the jersey. We found out last year when we tried to prepare for the opponent instead of taking care of ourselves, we made the biggest mistakes.