Ruffin McNeill 10/19 Press Conference Annotated

Saturday was a great, great win! I said it after the game and I say it again now. I've been coaching a long time and, for me, it was one of the best wins I've had as a head coach, period, because you saw the kids, as a team, compete, fight and scrap with no panic. I think the first half of the season galvanized us. I saw that Saturday. Philip (Montgomery) is a ball coach. He's been doing it from the ground up from high school, building up Stephenville into one of the most powerful schools in Texas and then you saw him go to Houston with Art (Briles) and Baylor and took those programs to another level. Bill Young and Brian Norwood -- I coached with Brian at Texas Tech and Brian is a ball coach. I got a lot of the zone blitz thought process, coverage-wise, from Brian. They have a good program. It was a great team win and wins are hard.

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