Greg Mattison
Greg Mattison
Greg Mattisonis an American football coach and former player. He is the current defensive line coach at the University of Michigan. Mattison was formerly the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He also served as co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach for at the University of Florida for three years. At Florida he was a member of the 2006 BCS National Championship team...
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He's growing up, that's all it is. He's buying in. He's got pride. Joe's got unbelievable pride. Joe wants to be very, very good and Joe's starting to play very, very good.
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Joe can also go to end, so I look at it as seven and a half. They've earned (the right to rotate) so far, but you can lose that right and they understand that.
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The No. 1 thing always will be is that our home state of Florida is where we want to recruit. Two players being equal, we'll take the Florida young man every time.
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It was like a light went on for him at the end of the fall. And he's keeping it up. He's playing like a starter now.
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I think I've spent the last 12 to 15 years and only scored about 14 points a game, and I want you to know it's a lot easier to call defenses when you have a lead. I am the biggest fan of the offense in America.
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The thing is, because our staff has been a lot of different places and they have had the experience of recruiting other places, they had built relationships at other places. So when kids saw Coach Meyer got the job down here and some of our assistants got hired down here, they had that trust factor already and they had that interest. So they would either contact us or when we would contact them, they would immediately be interested. Then from there, it's a matter of us evaluating and making sure that that player is better than what's here in the state.
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Here's a kid that came in here at 212 pounds and now he's got himself up to 280 pounds. Kids don't come in and play good at 212 but when they get the experience and keep battling, you never know.
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Bryan told an Iowa announcer earlier in the year that if UF played Iowa, Mom would root for Iowa because she loves her son more. There's probably a good chance of that. I don't know. The thing I keep in mind with her is the car she drives is being paid by Florida.
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When he broke his leg I said my only hope was that he would play in the bowl game. Here he goes and plays in the bowl game and he intercepts a pass and runs it back for a touchdown -- that's tremendous.
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When you're a major college football coach and your son is a major college football player, the chances of being together for the holidays are slim to none. But we had talked about this happening.