The Big Ten held the weekly teleconference with the 12 football coaches and the media this morning, and @B1GFootball from the Big Ten Conference office tweeted the event live as always. Get a taste of each coach’s Tuesday phone call with the media via selected tweets, or listen to each entire call on your own. We post these calls every week.
Fitzgerald on QBs – Persa is still day-to-day, Colter is ultra-competive young man, wants team to win in worst way—
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Listen to Pat Fitzgerald:
Hoke on familiarity of facing SDSU – alot of familiarity when you look at schematics of offense, defense will be unique and challenging—
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Listen to Brady Hoke:
Pelini on QBs ranking 1-2-3 in Big Ten rushing – good athletes at QB position, depends on how defenses play teams—
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Listen to Bo Pelini:
Dantonio on divisional play – have opportunity to settle it on field, have clear-cut champion instead of ties—
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Listen to Mark Dantonio:
Ferentz on QB Vandenberg – came into season with good feel about him, he's earned our trust and confidence, just hasn't played much—
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Listen to Kirk Ferentz:
Zook on defense – lost three NFL draft picks, but knew we had good players replacing them, wasn't sure how long until D would come around—
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Listen to Ron Zook:
Hope on rush attack – last year we had so many injuries at QB, we had to run out of necessity, we've picked up where we left off—
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Listen to Danny Hope:
Paterno on coaching from press box – helps to have staff that's been with me for a while, but I miss being on sideline—
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Listen to Joe Paterno:
Bielema on QB Wilson – one area that surprised me is how he handles everything around him, just keeps giving credit to players & coaches—
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Listen to Bret Bielema:
Fickell on QBs – we'll have competition this week, need to get best 11 on field, see how they react in practice, have a good idea by Thu.—
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Listen to Luke Fickell:
Wilson on QB Wright-Baker – been best QB throughout camp, doesn't force football, takes care of ball, nice job extending plays with runs—
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Listen to Kevin Wilson:
Listen to Jerry Kill:


