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INFO & STATS: Head Coach Pittsburgh Football | 5th Season with Pittsburgh | 11 Years Spent Coaching in the NFL | Former Defensive Coordinator.
TOPICS: Decision to take over Pittsburgh under bad circumstances | Kids on the team getting it done and achieving success | The pure quarterback | Running back reaction | Future with his career | Not missing the NFL; football is football. |
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INFO & STATS: TCU Head Coach
TOPICS: Mood for the biggest home game in 25 years | How the young players respond to the hype | Tough loss last year and thoughts on the game | Will the system take care of him if they win out | Coming from a small town | Mountain West Conference without an automatic bid. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Coach Navy Football.
TOPICS: Defeating Notre Dame | Getting the win in South Bend before Veteran’s Day | Great win for the entire Academy | Conversations with a recruit and his family | Different level intensity brought to the field by the players | Respect and pleasure coaching the team | Final home game for the seniors | QB wanting to run for President of the county | Ken and the coaching staff huge fans of the Jungle. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Coach Arizona Football.
TOPICS: Breaking into the Top 20 | Staying there is tougher in the conference | Benchmark set by Pete Carroll and USC football | Controlling their own fate this late | Different scenarios each week | Players affected by the Swine Flu | Continuing to prepare when the Swine Flu impacted the team | Nick’s status and readiness to play | Motivation factors | Having fewer losses than his brother’s team. |
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INFO & STATS: First Year Head Coach Oregon Football.
TOPICS: Buzz in the town; enjoyment of the victory over USC; prepping for Stanford | Concern over the message not hitting the mark? | Hanging huge totals over USC | Practicing better than anybody else | Defense exceeding his expectations? | New “sheriff in town”? | The BCS system; controlling how well they play and prepare | QB Dennis Dixon’s impressive strives | The LeGarrette Blount situation | Not able to control what all his players do | Reinstatement of Blount | Looking at the next Jungle visit. |
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INFO & STATS: College Football Junior Quarterback Oregon Ducks Football.
TOPICS: The vibe inside the stadium | Relaxed after the game; confidence during the game | Hanging 600 yards of total offense on USC | Official changing of the guard? | Physical game | Defense going into the game looking to make a statement | Biggest difference personally | Team keeping it together after shaky start | Head Coach Chip Kelly’s role | Matchup with Stanford | Nobody getting caught up; dealing with situations | Maintaining belief that it is going to happen | Problem with not getting to the national championship? | LeGarrette Blount’s return. |
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INFO & STATS: Freshman Quarterback USC Football.
TOPICS: Unbeaten as a starting quarterback; reaction | Closest with Matt Leinart; coming from the same High School | Matt Leinart’s message to him | Faith keeping him in line | Stafon Johnson’s weight room injury | Johnson’s recovery process | Preparing himself to walk into the “Shoe” | Hostile environment ahead with Oregon | The rap over USC Football | Pete Carroll’s comments of Matt Barkley. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Football Coach Georgia Tech | 2nd Season with Georgia Tech | 13th Season as a Head Coach | ACC Coach of the Year last season.
TOPICS: Win over Virginia Tech; big win for the program | Response to the big win from the team | Reminded by what happened last year | “All The Way Turnt Up” | Where the song came from | Really locked into the game, oblivious to the song | Vindication in the system working so well | Offense practicing; tough to prepare for the opposition | Most plays over 50 yards | Getting the right people into the system | Rivalries in College Football; Army v. Navy | Student athlete at Navy. |
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INFO & STATS: Quarterback Texas Longhorns | Last year’s Heisman Trophy runner-up.
TOPICS: Overlooking Colorado and thinking about Oklahoma? | The Red River Rivalry game | Thinking back to last year’s matchup with Oklahoma | Playing in front of 92,000 people at the Cotton Bowl with fans split down the middle | Burden catching up to him? | Putting pressure on himself after a near perfect year last season | Running game not firing the way he would like it to be | Wanting the opposition to be at their best | Keeping distance from the other guy because the nature of the rivalry | Reality of prospects ahead | Speaking with Vince Young. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Football Coach University of Cincinnati | 3rd Season with Cincinnati | 6th Season as a Head Coach | Led team to back-to-back years in the Top 20 | Led team to first BCS appearance | Team ranked higher than Ohio State for the first time since 1951 | Unbeaten 5-0 record for the season.
TOPICS: Reaction to the rankings in the poll this season | Embracing the ranking | Ranking’s impact to the team’s approach | Experience in the BCS game | Great opportunity to win league championship to get into the BCS | Searching for talent for the team; business model with young talent | Challenge and embracement from the City of Cincinnati | Matchup between Cincinnati and Ohio State 3 years from now | Heart and determination of Tony Pike | Building blocks and developing the Big East. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Football Coach University of Houston | 2nd Year as Head Coach | Lead the team to their first Bowl win.
TOPICS: Big win over Texas Tech | Student and fan support | Stolen helmets | Great moment with fans rushing the field | Defense getting huge stop | Talent to win games on schedule | Star player on the team | Reason for going there | Hiring his former coach | Mike Tomlin’s success as a young coach. |
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INFO & STATS: USC Trojans Safety
TOPICS: Playing in Ohio St. in their house / Winning the tough game / Thoughts during the final drive of taking the game over / Matt Barkley being the same guy on the field / Coming back to finding out a true freshman was leading the team / Plan against Ohio St. and Terrell Pryor / Concern about losing against smaller school / Feedback on coming back for his senior year / Decision to go to the NFL early not an easy one / Father’s input on his decision / Going home and playing in Washington / Recruitment for USC. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Football Coach University of Miami | 3rd Season at Miami | Miami’s Defensive Coordinator 2001 National Championship team | Former Standout Player and Starting Linebacker for Miami’s 1987 National Championship team.
TOPICS: The ‘U’ officially back since Florida State win? | Confidence factor | Brutal first month schedule; re-focusing | Focus and the senior classman | Jacory Harris’ job as quarterback | Harris’ pressure since going to Miami Northwestern | Harris to bring back the Quarterback ‘U’ reputation? | Great quarterbacks that have come through the ‘U’ | Feasible to bring the program back to where it use to be? | What sets the ‘U’ aside from other programs | Being taught the special bond | Pride and accomplishment importance for those who have played there | Coaching Ray Lewis; Harris’ leadership | Leading and following mentality | Reaching out to Chip Kelly at Oregon | Suspensions warranted? | Returning to the ‘U’ and the work needed to be done | Thought process while rebuilding the team | Johnson’s brilliance with Dallas | Johnson leaving the game. |
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INFO & STATS: Former 3-Time All American Football Running Back | 2-Time Heisman Trophy Winner | 4 Straight Big-Ten Titles | 8 Years Played in the NFL | President of The Ohio State University Alumni Association
TOPICS: Reaction to the week with the upcoming contest on Saturday | Why the Saturday game is “so big” | Matt Barkley coming into the show | Emulation and preparing for that type of crowd | Buckeyes loss against Navy | Pryor’s use of eye black and shouting out Mike Vick | OK with showing support for Vick | Coaches letting players be “players”? | Reaction from the press and fans | Young kid just not thinking much of it | Pryor’s difference now vs. last season against USC | Tressel unable to win the big one? | Talent matchup against USC | Welcoming anyone into the double-win Heisman Trophy club | The next double-Heisman winner. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Football Coach at BYU | 5th Year as Head Coach.
TOPICS: Large victory over the weekend | The challenge of the next task at hand | Living in the moment and present | Personal longevity as a Division I coach | More comfortable in his 5th year | Scheduling the game against Oklahoma | Taking a shot at the national championship | AP poll ranking at #9 | Finding a way to get through it and finish | Oklahoma’s loss of Sam Bradford | Fierce rival game | Conference now BCS material. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Football Coach Boise State | 4th Year as Head Coach | 2006 National Coach of the Year | Led Team to 2007 Fiesta Bowl Victory.
TOPICS: Last night’s win over Oregon | Any less respect to end of game incident? | Just punishment | Speaking about the incident | Bowl game atmosphere | Season ahead; next game | Speaking about success and expectations | Defenses’ incredible job | New unit’s response to the pressure last night | Son’s brain tumor at age 1 | Son’s health today at age 11 | Son’s personality as a kid | Size of stadium not determining happiness. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Football Coach University of Oregon | Former Offensive Coordinator.
TOPICS: Huge game matchup with Boise St. | Mike Bellotti stepping down | Focus on becoming a head coach? | Bad blood lingering from last matchup with Boise St.? | Not a “pay-back” operation | Playing on the blue turf | Uniforms tonight | Offering Jon Gruden the offensive coordinator job | Studying the 4th down strategy. |
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INFO & STATS: Former All-American at Ohio State | Several College Football Passing Records | 1st Round NFL Draft Pick Baltimore Colts | Author.
TOPICS: Cathartic or painful to write? | The private meeting with Michigan State | Playing for Woody Hayes | The pick incident; living with it | When the gambling began | Why he began betting | Committing crimes and stealing money | The money loss gambling and the amount stolen | The pain dealt with growing up | Spending a decade in jail at some 40 different prisons | Gambling in prison | Hitting rock bottom | Strength to keep going and fight to get leverage on the problem | Defining the compulsive gambler | The last time he made a bet | Assurance that he will never gamble again? | Art’s Gambling Prevention Awareness organization | Making help available for those that have been affected by gambling | Spending days listening to the Jungle in prison | The disease and prevention awareness. |
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INFO & STATS: Head Football Coach University of Utah | 5th Year with Utah | Led Utah to four straight Bowl wins & an unbeaten season last year.
TOPICS: Recruiting this season vs. last season | Explanation approach prior to last year | the ’04 rebuilding year in comparison to this year | Not announcing the head QB yet | Thursday at game-time will announce starting QB | Approach to a young QB | Not looking to platoon | Automatic bid denied | What needs to be done to get in? | BYU and OU | Matchup against Utah State | Animosity? | Reaction to Tim Tebow | Following Urb’s path? |
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INFO & STATS: Nebraska Cornhuskers Head Coach | Led Cornhuskers to 9 wins and a Gator Bowl win last season.
TOPICS: Remaining work to be done with the program | Realistic goal to return team to top rankings | QB Zac Lee | Castille’s departure from the team | Big role, big loss | Challenges with this year’s schedule | Coaching attitude and effort | Expectations returning to Nebraska. |
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Dave Wannstedt 
