TCU Horned Frogs College Football Pregame Quote, 12/29/2022

I’m just going to assume you have some NIL benefits. You are allowed to have a marketing agent. Do you have one?

QUENTIN JOHNSTON: No.

What is the future of that, having presentation with college?

QUENTIN JOHNSTON: I feel like people are going and looking to that first, before I play football, we need to have an agent and decide the future. I feel there’s an upside and a downside to it. I mean, the upside is who is handling football and the downside is people get too caught up in that end and not performing how they should just because of that.

When does that impact the locker room?

QUENTIN JOHNSTON: It just depends on who it is, if you choose to throw it in people’s face, you walk in the locker room and everyone feels like you are better than them, which is not good for a football team. If you deal with it right, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Quentin, how fun is it playing in this offense?

QUENTIN JOHNSTON: It’s very fun. Their style offense, it’s just been very exciting.

You played SMU in the past and you got a look at it. What went through your mind when this happened when Sonny [Dykes] was coaching?

QUENTIN JOHNSTON: It was a positive change for us. We had energy and excitement to play. And then as soon as Coach Dykes came, I knew we would explode.

You were a mainstay before the Kansas game. The 14 catches before Kansas, I think that was a national game that day. Was that to you some sort of coming out? You had been relied upon before that, but just talk about that.

QUENTIN JOHNSTON: I mean, I guess you can call it that. Obviously, the first few games, I would kind of just be in the background. I was the first person behind them when they scored a touchdown, and I would celebrate them. I would wait my time.

I didn’t really get too frustrated not playing too much. I just played my role, whether it was blocking, hyping my teammates up on the sideline and getting everybody ready.

When the Kansas game came, they had everybody. We pulled up. They had all the fans and TV and stuff like that. It surprised us, the Kansas team. It’s like, okay, they are not playing.

I mean, as far as preparation of the game and stuff like that, I didn’t do anything different. I looked at my college career and looked at the plan that the coach drew up.

Fourteen catches, I didn’t realize it until after the game. I was taken aback a little bit. I’m usually more tired than I am. It was a fun experience.

Michigan, are you studying individuals, are you studying schemes, or is it a little bit of both?

QUENTIN JOHNSTON: Yeah, yeah, a little bit of both schemes. The tendencies of different players, specifically DBs, RBs, the DB matchups.

What is the most exotic defense you saw this year that didn’t involve a physical one-on-one press?

QUENTIN JOHNSTON: The most physical — the one-on-one Kansas State for sure. But going back, looking at it, probably have to be — let me see. Probably like OU or Texas for sure. Texas, the way they ran stuff, it was hard to get going and when a big play did happen, we couldn’t get momentum from that. Usually you get a big play and the momentum will start. It was kind of frustrating.