Evening Quotes from the Athens Banner-Herald

About practicing at the New Orleans Saints' practice facility where front office personnel from the NFL can watch, JJ said:
"Obviously everyone at the Saints is going to watch Colt throw but they'll have a bunch of people watching a whole bunch of other guys on this team. It will help them when draft day comes." (ABH)

Praising RB Moreno, JJ said:
"They have a Barry Sanders-type running back and he is only 18 years old. He isn't any longer a freshman." (ABH)

About not having curfew tonight, JJ said:
"This is a great group of kids, and I am not worried we are going to do anything we are going to be ashamed of." (ABH)


About how they learned from their 2006 Sugar Bowl loss to West Virginia, senior DE Marcus Howard said:
"Coach (Mark) Richt brings that up all the time. They really destroyed us. We know we can't take no team lightly." (ABH)


Hoping that their experience from 2006 means that they will be ready in this game, Mark Richt said:
"Hopefully we can learn from our Sugar Bowl game a couple of years ago. Not many people gave West Virginia a chance and they came in and made a lot of their reputation on us at the expense of Georgia and the Southeastern Conference champions." (ABH)

About how UH will want a signature win like West Virginia got over them, CB Bryan Evans said:
"West Virginia, ever since '05 - their program has soared tremendously. Here we go again. Hawaii is looking to get up there to the top and have their program succeed and keep increasing." (ABH)

About how UH will be up to play them, Richt said:
"We're not the Southeastern Conference champions, but we are a highly ranked Southeastern Conference team. Hawaii will absolutely get excited about enhancing their reputation." (ABH)

About how Georgia is used to playing in these types of big games, JJ said:
"They're going to play with confidence. They play in a big arena already. We're kind of like the Bad News Bears coming East to play the SEC." (ABH)

About facing UH, LB Rennie Curran said:
"We could easily take them for granted and they come out and show us out and embarrass us, or we can get pissed off and take care of business and show the nation that we are one of the best teams." (ABH)

About learning from their last Sugar Bowl loss, DL coach Rodney Garner said:
"The last time we were in the Sugar Bowl, we didn't show up. We didn't play very good. That left a bad taste in people's mouths for a long time. We still talk about that." (ABH)

About getting their players ready to play UH, Garner said:
"I don't know if we did a good enough job convincing our kids how good West Virginia was, how fast they were. Obviously, we've tried to really emphasize that this year with Hawaii." (ABH)

About UH, offensive tackle Chester Adams said:
"They're an undefeated team and they're not in the national championship, so they've got something to prove. We just can't let them prove it on us." (ABH)