Chuck Long Quotes

We were not a throwing team in high school, ... If you were recruiting now with 85 scholarships, you're not recruiting me. We threw the ball five times a game in high school and didn't get many phone calls. - Chuck Long

We want to tailor our offense to our personnel. We have good running backs, and we want to feature those guys, as you saw today. I thought those guys stood out. The running backs did a nice job. - Chuck Long

We think he's going to be OK, but we'll evaluate him and see. - Chuck Long

We needed to get a win, and that was the big thing ... . We could feel it on the sideline. Our guys said, 'We can run the football on these guys,' and they did a nice job. - Chuck Long

We knew what we had coming into the season, we knew we had heavy graduation. We had two new quarterbacks. It was quite possible we would have the first freshman starter since I've been here. We knew we would have some growing pains. - Chuck Long

We haven't exactly played great against these guys the last couple years. They have done a good job defensively against us, and now they have more of a veteran group. - Chuck Long

We got 29 practices in August, ... and we needed more. - Chuck Long

We felt like he didn't get enough snaps in the game, ... We want to give him a chance to play and play through some mistakes. - Chuck Long

We felt good about him being in there. He's in command. He's good on the sideline. We wanted to keep that rhythm going if we could. - Chuck Long

We ended up in third and long too much. We need to do a better job of that, and that starts with me. - Chuck Long

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