“The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays ? I?m just directing things a little bit. We needed to shake things up a bit and just get back to the basics and fundamentals.”
“Surely, they hear what's going on around campus or whatever and the Internet. Our kids have done a good job, at least as far as we can see, of not bringing that stuff to practice. ... Coach (Snyder) has done a good job of saying, 'Let's stick with the task at hand.' Some of those things we can't control, and we're not going to worry about, and I think our kids will follow suit in that.”
“It gets to the point where maybe the kids need to hear a new voice. I always tell the kids you should never quit. I'm not quitting on them, but maybe there comes a point in time where you just can't do it there anymore.”
“I maybe have a few years left in me. I enjoy this. I enjoy the kids. . . . Yes, I want to be a head coach. I was a head coach, and I want to continue to be a head coach.”
“They're playing the best basketball in the conference right now. They're playing with a lot of confidence, hitting shots and playing very well as a team.”
“On game day, I expect the guys to have energy no matter who the coach is. We just didn't have it today. Kansas just took it to us and that's the way I'm going to look at it.”
