We took out Rush because he had a couple of bad plays and put Shipley in. But we had intended to play Shipley some.

[For the second consecutive week, timeouts were used by Beaver Stadium crew members to rush out on the field and replace divots.] This week and last week is the first time I can remember in a long, long time that we had have that kind of situation, ... It isn't because we have been on that field a lot, because we haven't.

We had guys open, we just didn't get the ball to them accurately. We might have had some big plays earlier in the game and there's the tendency to get discouraged. I didn't want Mike to get discouraged ... he'll be alright.

Mike was not as sharp as he?s been. He missed a couple passes that would have given him a great day.

They took it. Nobody pouted. The captains got them together and all's well that ends well.

When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.