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Head Coach Bill Snyder
On players’ summer preparations…
“Not bad. Never as good as I would have liked, and it varies because some of them are very well conditioned. More of them are well conditioned. More of them have got through the first two practices indicating to me that they took their conditioning seriously during the summer, but not all of them.“
On the leadership of Collin Klein and Arthur Brown…
“I think the young people in our program accept Collin as a strong, reliable leader in our program throughout both sides of the ball. I think they have shown respect for him, and you cannot be a leader if you do not have that. I am confident that he does, and I think that he has emerged and has gotten a little bit stronger in terms of his leadership on a regular basis. I have said so many times he has become more vocal, more demanding, and he does it in a positive way with his teammates. I like the directions he has gone. Like I said about Arthur (Brown) and Collin so many times, they are at two different levels in terms of their outgoingness. They are both very humble. Consequently, that was not his (Collin’s) nature to be as outgoing and as demanding as he has become. Our players respect that because he always sets examples. The same thing is true with Arthur, still a very quiet young man, but he has made the attempt also to become a more demanding leader in the program. It is a sacrifice on their part, and I greatly appreciate it. They do it for one reason and one reason alone because they know it is the right thing to do and they really care about the people in the program. They want to help their teammates help them become the best they can possibly become.”
