Patrick Walsh Quotes

I know they have a great running back in Cameron Island. And they always have a lot of athletes at the skill positions. This is a great test for us early in the year.

We`re untested, inexperienced and the faster we grow up, the better.

So in a way, I`m happy for them. I think their community needed it.

After all that`s happened, the team is eager to get on the field and move forward. It`s going to be interesting to see how we play and where we go from here.

We`re getting battle-tested. This is probably not going to be the last fourth-quarter game we ever play.

They have a great arsenal of talent. They have great coaches and a great facility at a great school. Why wouldn`t you want to go there?

If my heart was at 100 percent before that game, then it was 98 percent afterward. That 2 percent, I`ll never get back.

Skyline is a big, physical team. But we had some big plays. For being a young, inexperienced group, we did a good job against a good team.

Both teams have really been through a lot of difficulty, and it`s a shame to see one team lose a game like that,

After all we went through this summer, all we wanted was the`05 season to get started. I had tears in my eyes when I walked on to the field tonight thinking about all we went through. We could have lost by 700 points, but at least the`05 season had started.