Urban Meyer spoke out about many things in his press conference yesterday touching on many subjects:

Opening Statement:

“It’s a big game coming up. We’re playing a good team and are anxious to get going. It’s put a little different pep in our step. We came in at 7 a.m. this morning and had meetings. We are certainly not the finished product, but we don’t have to be yet. We have four days until Thursday’s practice. We’re going to have a tough practice today and our focus will be getting through Monday and get to Tuesday.”

On the returning offense’s style:

“We’re going to mess around with the up-tempo, which is a little bit of what we learned from Oklahoma. How much we change things is still to be determined. I’m anxious to see it work. We’ve spent a lot of time on it. I think you’ll see some of that in the game, but it is dependent on the tailbacks. If those guys run like I think they are going to run, then you might see a more traditional hand-off. We’re going to do what we have to do in the game.”

On redshirt sophomore defensive end Jaye Howard:

“Well, it’s true that about 90% of young athletes that go through are very confused and one of our sayings here is to eliminate all confusion. If you practice really hard and learn your playbook, then you’ll probably be playing. If you don’t do that, then you won’t play. The guys have a hard time accepting …

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