More - Mike Schneider Quotes

People thought Joe Paterno was dumb two years ago and now he's smart again. Winning changes a lot of things. These same kids played as freshman and sophomores and now that experience is paying off. Have we turned it around? I don't buy that because high school sports at a place like ours will always run in cycles. But Ed is doing a very, very good job.

Mike Schneider

 

That's what I'm more disappointed in than anything. Forcing the ball in there on the 4-yard line, you can't do that. You've got to get some kind of points out of that. Even if you kick a field goal ? we only lost by three.

Mike Schneider

 

I talked to Coach [Ted] Roof before the game and he was like, 'You know Mike, you don't have to be Dan Marino; you've just got to be Mike Schneider, and that's good enough for our team,'

Mike Schneider

 Coach

It's definitely not new,

Mike Schneider

 

I thought it would be a lot more frustrating coming in, probably because at the end of last year, I really started to understand the offense more, ... When coach O'Brien came in, and I talked to him for the first time, I knew that it was to be OK. He's the best teacher I have ever been around.

Mike Schneider

 

I got a concussion just trying to make too much of a play,

Mike Schneider

 

You've got to go down when you get hit the first time there and not try to go crazy with it.

Mike Schneider

 

There was a little hole there, but why try to force it?

Mike Schneider

 Force

Now I want to take a step forward in this next game by making smarter decisions.

Mike Schneider

 Decisions

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Mike Schneider

 Trying