Quotes from Jake Ingram

About how Jake watched the DL practice in training camp, wishing he was there, kicker Dan Kelly said:
"It's still tough. He still misses it." (HSB)


About how Jake has accepted his long snapping role, Kelly said:
"He's a long-snapping maniac." (HSB)


About being the long snapper, Jake said:
"Maybe it'll get me somewhere." (HSB)

HSB Note: "Ingram is so good at what he does, so accurate, so valuable, he's on scholarship for a single skill. (June Jones said in May 2006 that Ingram had been slated for a full-ride the following spring -- but when UH lost scholarships due to its APR score there wasn't one available for Ingram until now.)."


About how at first he didn't like being just the long snapper, Jake said:
"I felt like I wasn't a football player." (HSB)


About how Jake is banned from any and all defensive drills because he's too valuable as a long snapper, JR said:
"Every time he goes out there he's in a critical-down situation." (HSB)


About how he still goes to the DL meetings, Jake said:
"It feels good to just be in meetings." (HSB)


About how kicking game mistakes cost them tremendously in last year's BSU game, where Jake stepped forward to take the blame and then the team had a 5-hour layover at the airport, Jake said:
"That's all I was thinking about." (HSB)


About how his team stayed behind him despite the BSU problems, Jake said:
"My team had my back the whole way." (HSB)

HSB Note: "It still does. Yesterday, it was raucous at the end of practice as the guys gathered around. The reason? Jones was actually talking about Ingram, a mix of praise and affectionate ribbing, and the guys responded with good-natured laughter, and cheers. He's still a football player. He just has to have a different mind-set than most.

Last year his most difficult snap of the season was after a kickoff returned for a touchdown. Ingram had run down the sideline screaming, then had to have the precision of a surgeon on the extra-point snap. He knows now. There's a reason they don't want him thinking like a defensive lineman. He'll never let it happen again."


About how he gets to cover punts after he delivers the punt snap and the punt is away, Jake said:
"I want to go whack somebody," he says. "That's like my favorite thing, getting to run down the field." (HSB)