Kevin Murray
Tom Westerberg
Texas A&M Football Recruiting
Inside the Kyler commit: Thoughts from Dad, high school coach
Quotes from Kevin Murray interview:
“It was a proud moment for me. You know he’s a lot like me from the standpoint that trust goes a long way.”
“It was his deal, I was kind of a backseat rider here, so was my wife. We just tried to provide him with all of the facts but ultimately as a 16 year old he had to make that decision.”
“I told Kyler many times it’s not a four or five year decision, it’s a lifetime decision.”
“Kyler at that particular time, he showed me that he had what it took to be different. I put him in very difficult situations, all those kids for that matter, but boy the tougher the situation I put him in, the better he played. I knew right then that the kid was going to be special, because he was not intimidated one bit.”
“My deal with Kyler is look, sure he’s my son, but he needs to be better than me. You know, he’s my offspring, shouldn’t he better than me based on the fact that I’m his dad and what I do as an occupation? He should be better than me and those are the expectations.”
“All the swagger and things that are going on in College Station, that’s great, that’s fine, but we play the game for one reason. One of Drake’s famous songs ‘Trophies’, well that’s why Kyler Murray exists. That’s his walk up song in baseball, that’s the song that he wakes up to. That’s why he does it, trophies, to win. And that’s why we play the game, nothing else. If you’re not winning, you’re losing and he ain’t losing because he doesn’t want to come home to me.”
“You can’t take many 16 year old kids and put them in front of 54,000 in Jerry World and expect them to perform the way he performs.”
“It’s not crucial that he does (enroll early), because they are allowed to work with them now in the summers and he feels like he can get him up to speed in the summer. It will be a grind for sure, but no it’s not a full-blown conclusion right now that he will graduate early. He could if he wanted to because he’s in the top 30 percent academically at Allen High School. That's something we are very proud of, but (graduating early) remains to be seen.”
“He didn’t play [baseball] last summer. We wanted him to take a break from a long 16-week schedule. Give his body a chance to rest and relax a little bit.”
Quotes from Tom Westerberg interview:
"We had a little press conference to announce his commitment on where he’s going to school. We had a lot of fun in our indoor facility with all of our players around and a bunch of the local media. The kids had a lot of fun and we had a lot of fun now that he’s announced that he’s heading down to A&M."
"[The Murrays] are really professional. They’re going to weigh out all their options, they’re going to check everything out. Kyler went through all his resources and used them all from coaches, to friends, to ex-coaches, and all the way to college coaches. Just laid everything out and did a good thorough job of what fit him best."
"You’re getting an exciting exciting player [in Kyler]. IHes a guy that has made things happen for us and is going to make them happen at the next level."
"[Kevin and Kyler] are really totally different players. I was the student manager in 1983-84. I actually watched the 1983 A&M/Texas game this last weekend and that was the year Kevin was a freshman and the whole starting backfield were freshman. Kyler has a whole lot more running ability than Kevin did. I think the intensity level is the same with both of them."
"He came in in August of his sophomore year in our new stadium against Southlake Carroll. He comes in the second half of that game, the senior we had starting cramped up a little bit and Kyler had to play quite a bit. He ends up throwing for 150-160 yards in an atmosphere where there are 22,000 people at a high school game. It didn’t faze him one bit. You know if he can handle that, it’s going to be special."
"We have a great coaching staff. They’re putting kids in the right spot and getting them to develop. Watching our offensive line play and receivers play with Kyler, and the defense is picking up. It’s a lot of fun to see the kids blossom and go on to the next level."
"They’re still going to find things that he has to work on. They may ask him to do some things we don’t. I think there is still some maturity as far as weight room and getting stronger to play at the next level that he is going to have to really work on. Not being 6’4 and 220 pounds playing in the SEC he is going to have to work on the strength factor to last through the whole seasons as he gets older."
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