Football: Bill Stewart/Player Quotes
April 28, 2010 07:38 PM | General
April 28, 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University coach Bill Stewart and selected player quotes from Wednesday’s practice.
Coach Bill Stewart
On Friday’s Blue-Gold Scrimmage
I hope the team will play with great emotion on Friday. They have done that most of the spring. We have had hard hitting practices and live situations, and I anticipate that will continue this Friday night before the Mountaineer faithful.
I want to see the ball in our playmaker’s hands, I want see us offensively, I want to see if our offensive line gels, and I want to see how hard our defense runs to the ball and if we are playing like we are in top form and knocking the ball lose.
Coley White will be the quarterback.
On the team’s improvement this spring
They will never improve as much as I want them to in the spring. We have done well, we have given effort and the guys have played hard, but never as well as I would like.
More Involvement in the Passing Game
I told the staff, I want to see No. 89 (Tyler Urban) and No. 6 (Will Johnson) catch the ball. I think with Tyler Urban and Will Johnson, we have two very capable young men that can catch the football. We have seen Jock Sanders make plays, and we have seen Brad Starks make plays, now we need to see the tight ends do it on a more consistent basis, and we need to get the ball to No. 1, Tavon Austin.
Brad Starks
I think it is more exciting when you have a couple thousand fans in the stands coming out from wherever they are coming from, far or not. They want to see us play, and to have someone in the stands other than the coaches I think it awesome. We want to produce and be productive.
I just want to keep doing what I have been doing this spring and be in there helping the young guys with whatever they need and just be a vocal team leader. I want to keep working on my routes and everything that I have been working on this spring. Eric Jobe
I think we (the offensive line) are just carrying over from last year. We have four returning starters, and Jeff Braun had a lot of playing time last year. We are just getting him aquatinted to the right tackle position.
Other than missing some practice because of class conflicts I am getting in there and working with people. It is nice to stick in one position this year.
I think our two’s are getting some good reps in this spring, and they are improving a lot. Fifteen spring practices isn’t really a lot, so we will have to get together over the summer and continue to work on our drills and technique so in fall camp, there isn’t much teaching going on. We want to be ready to roll, and I think we will have eight to 10 guys ready.
Robert Sands
I am pretty excited. It is a Friday night game underneath the lights in our own home stadium, so hopefully we will get a big turnout. I hope we show them what our defense has.
It is even more fun when the fans are there to watch. It gives a little extra motivation to the offense and defense so it will be fun out there. It is the last practice before summer break, and I am pretty excited about that. I can’t wait to go back home to Miami for a while.
We want to improve on last year. Wherever we were ranked last year, we want to be higher. Each and every individual on the team hopefully will have improved from last year, and we will have a better team.
