Aug. 27, 2001

LAS VEGAS - UNLV Head Coach Jon Robinson Speaking at his weekly Quarterback Club Luncheon Aug. 27, 2001

On Arkansas:

"We are going into the heart of football in America. They take it very seriously. They were beaten last year by a team that they didn't even know existed, and now they're angry. They're saying `It's redemption time' and revenge and all that, which is good. If you intend to have a football program, every town you go in should have the attention of everybody in that area."

On the season opener:

"As a coach, the thing you fear the most in the first game is that there is so much uncertainty. Will you get the snap from the center? Will the buses be on time? You worry about everything. Training camps have changed. They're not anywhere near as physical, as violent. You don't scrimmage much, so you worry about tackling. We just can't do those things as much now as we could in the past, so there's more uncertainty about opening games than there used to be."

On his team:

"We are a veteran football team. Arkansas is a classy, classy place, and they're going to have a sense of energy all over the place. They will be revved up, and you're going to have to stymie their first wave of stuff that they're going to come at us with."

Defensively:

"We have a chance to be better. We're concerned about the ball coming right at us, and that's what Arkansas is going to do. They're going to run the ball right at us. They have a powerful running game. They're going to try to power us, control the ball and win the game with power football. We're going to have to go up there and withstand it."

Offensively:

"They play kind of a helter-skelter defense with a lot of blitzing, a lot of attacking, a lot of things that they call organized confusion."