Coach Wright's quotes about the Daily Record

Here are the two quotes from Texas State head coach Brad Wright that sparked Randy Stevens' column in Tuesday's issue.

Following the 45-42 upset of third-ranked McNeese State. Wright was asked on the postgame interview about how his defense played: "Well, it's one of those deals where you can tell Tyler Mayforth as much as you want our guys are learning this system and they're getting better at it, and he can knock us in the paper, he can make us sound like the worst coaching staff and we have the worst players, but we won this football game because of our defense."

During the media luncheon with Tyler Mayforth, Bill Peterson (San Marcos Mercury) and Pat Turner (San Antonio Express-News). Wright was asked a question about how George has come along this season and how the quarterback kept his head held high: "...You can't be negative. That's why I don't like Tyler and the way he writes and I don't like Randy Stevens and the way that they write. It tears down what you're trying to build and they have no idea what it takes to build a team, the day-to-day running of a team, even though 'what's-his-name' said he played football in high school, which means nothing obviously. But uh, you know there's a lot of work that goes into making a football team successful and turning around a couple of decades of losing and negative press is one of those things that if it continues, I mean, I don't read the paper, and I don't know 10 people who do, but I hear it from people and that's something we need to shield our kids from too. That's probably going to be the next step, if it doesn't stop. We just won't talk to the press. We know when we do bad, we know when we do well, but we need to understand what it takes to be successful and like I said, there are two decades of not doing well around here. It's a culture of losing, surrounded by the press, to the fans. They don't know how to handle success. They don't know how to handle what it takes to be successful. That's part of our job as coaches is to help them understand it."