I felt we needed somebody who woke up in the morning thinking about how we could get Penn State back in the forefront. We were slipping. He's got ideas. He's got ways of handling things.
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The one thing I said to some people in the university at times when they asked me about the future was, 'Look, everybody just stay stable. We will be OK. I have a bunch of great (coaches) around me. We have to go out and recruit a couple of kids and we will be OK,' ... I'm not sure they believed me, but at least they didn't fire me.
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They've responded to everything so far. We have enough leadership. I am concerned about being tired and going to Illinois, where they had a week off, and seeing things we might not be prepared for.
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