We've got young teams with young quarterbacking, and it takes time to find out who you and what you are. It takes until midseason. At midseason, you begin to settle on your strengths and weaknesses and maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses as you move into the heart of the season. We've had some tough games but by the end we'll hold our own. This conference has a tendency to beat each other up.
Every game is a tough game, and they're going to overtime or being decided by seven points.
As competitive as this conference is, it sometimes hurts us out of conference. If you remember back to training camp, Brent McCaffrey was not there for two weeks and Trevor was marvelous. Then he had the ankle sprain against Hawaii and it took a month. This was his first opportunity to play. Faaesea stepped in and for a guy who hasn't really played in two years, he played the entire game.