There's no credibility in anonymous sources.
I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.
There's no better Gamecock than Marcus Lattimore.
I think you live and learn every day on the job.
At the end of the day, I'm a good defensive football coach.
I'm a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.
You don't want a guy to be happy he's not starting.
At the end of the day, be in the game as the game's ending. That's the most important part.
Team and individual goals are great, but not understanding how we achieve those goals and the work it's going to take to achieve those goals, if you don't understand that process, then it doesn't matter.
It doesn't change whether it's Georgia, Clemson or Florida or Tennessee. You have to fight out there on the recruiting trail every day. And recruiting's a lot like shaving: If you don't do it every day, you start looking like a bum.
Recruiting is not an exact science.
At the end of the day, I grew up wanting to play in the SEC.
My dad was a coach and a schoolteacher.
I couldn't afford to go to an out-of-state school.
Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.
You control what you can control.
We talk to our players all the time, 'Just control what you can control.' It's no different in life.
The biggest thing for me is to be accessible. When a high school coach comes on our campus, they can sit in every position meeting they want to sit in. They can come to every practice. And the comments I've gotten from our high school coaches is how accessible we are to them. That's what you need to do to build those relationships.
When you talk in terms of a rivalry game, it's always important for our guys to understand the history of the rivalry and the history of the game.
I believe it was seventh or eighth grade: I went to a Danny Ford football camp. A buddy of mine was a big Clemson fan, and coach Ford put on a camp, and we did actually enjoy ourselves.
