Kansas State Wildcats College Football Pregame Quote, 12/29/2022

On what it means to give back during bowl week, like at Children’s Hospital New Orleans visit: Me speaking personally, it’s a huge honor. Everybody knows that we’re down here for a football trip, but just to be able to give back to a community that we’re not used to and see the smiles on the kids’ faces when we interact and play with them, that was better than winning the game. Just seeing the impact we have on the youth is way more important than anything. Any chance we can give back we will.

On the key to facing Alabama’s defense: Tempo, focus on our details, not letting our highs get too high and lows get too low. Just staying in the middle and playing our game.

On the strengths of the K-State offense: Our versatility. I feel like our offense has a lot of players that can do a lot of things, different things they bring to the table. It gives a lot of defenses a lot of confusion. Just being able to be diverse.

On how much credit he gives to OC Collin Klein: We have to give a lot of credit to Coach Klein because you can see the diversity in our offense. He brings a different element to us and he actually lets us give ideas, he’s a real good OC. He pitches ideas to us and we give him ideas back, so just being willing to have conversations about what we like and don’t like, and him actually using it, is a blessing.