Texas A&M Football
Key quotes from Jason Glenn interview
“(Coaching high school football at Klein Oak) is a great opportunity. It’s also a great learning curve. My dream job is to be a head coach at the high school level. Who better to learn from than Coach (David) Smith? He’s been doing this for 22 years at the same school. I’m just soaking it all in and going from there.”
“To be honest with you, (most of my press conference quotes in college) came off the top of my head. I’m a people person. I love people. I love little kids. My personality fits to where I can do press conferences. It just goes from there. Rusty, you made it a lot easier on me and made me a lot more comfortable. I could be myself in interviews. I don’t have to fake and be somebody I’m not. I could be myself.”
“My wife brought it up. Our anniversary is March 31st. She was like, ‘Hey, do you remember when you had a press conference and I called you in the middle of it? You put all those guys on hold just to talk to me.’ That earned me a lot of points to this day. I’ve been married 14 years.”
“(Dan Campbell being named interim head coach of the Miami Dolphins) is a great, great opportunity. I know one thing: Dan is going to work his tail off, and you are going to remember Dan Campbell. I promise you that. As a coach and as a person, he was always a great leader for us. He’s going to do a great job there. He’s going to have his guys playing hard for him. One thing about coaching – everyone thinks it’s just the X’s and O’s. From being a coach, it’s not about that all the time. It’s about getting guys to want to play for you. I think that’s the biggest compliment a coach can ever have. It’s not being remembered for the X’s and O’s but that you can get the most out of your players. I think Dan can get the most out of those guys. I think he’s going to do a great, great job there."
“I remember this. Coach Slocum came through and said, ‘I want you to try this linebacker thing.’ The first name I thought about was Dan Campbell. I knew I was going to have to go up against Dan who was a lineman. He’s 6’6”, and at the time he was 265 or 270. He was a tight end. Coach threw me in there, and I’m looking at Dan like, ‘Oh, my God. Okay. Here we go.’ The first time I went against him, I used a spin move. He fell. I was like, ‘Man, this linebacker thing is easy!’ They put me back in again, and I tried that same move. Dan grabbed me somewhere on my body. I still don’t know where it was. He must have just shot-putted me from the practice field to Netum Steed. I knew right then that I was going to go up against Dan every day, because he is so passionate and he loves the game of football. That’s the guy that you really, really want to go up against, because he’s going to make you better. He’s going to take that into this coaching deal. He’s going to make guys better. He’s got quotes too. He had some quotes for you.”
“I coached for a little bit in the NFL, and it wasn’t for me. As soon as the season was offer with, my wife and I decided, ‘Hey, let’s go back to Texas.’ I want to stay at the high school level. I’m planning on being a head coach soon. I want to stay at the high school level, and I want to be a head coach. My passion, really, is kids. That’s my passion. My high school coach, Bernie Simon, did some great things for me. He did some great things that helped me get into A&M academically. He also taught me some hard work values. I do. I want to be a high school head coach. One thing about it is that my career will not be based on wins and losses. My career will be based on how many kids I can help get into college. That’s what I really want to do.”
“(Coach Simon) taught me a lot of things about hard work, and so did my dad. Getting that from two great men – the more great men you can have around you, the more likely you’ll become a great man. One thing I tell my kids is that if you want to be average, keep doing average things. You’ll have an average life. You’ll play average. You’ll have an average wife. You’ll have average kids. You’ll have an average house. Everything about you will be average, but if you hang around great people, it’ll translate to everything you are in life. With that being said, Coach Simon and my dad are great men. They helped mold me into the man I am today.”
“My brother, Aaron, was also one of my mentors in this coaching profession. He was already there. I would go to all the games. I knew that (A&M) was the place for me. It’s easy to go where it feels like home. A&M felt like home. You get offers from here and there and all these other places. You know, you take the trips to see for sure, but I knew A&M was where my heart was. It says a lot about A&M to have brothers going to the same school. From the Coryatts to the McKinneys to the Matthews right now, you have so many brothers that have played at A&M. That says a lot about a school. Especially for the parents to know and say, ‘This is where your brother went. You should check it out a bit more.’ It says a lot about A&M, and it was an easy choice for me. It was a no-brainer.”
“(Moving to linebacker), it took me about a year to get comfortable. In high school, I was a deep safety. I used to run the alleys and make tackles and picks, but I trusted Coach Slocum, the evaluation and what they were doing. He kind of told me before that I might be moving to linebacker, and I was like, ‘Hey coach, wherever you want me to play.’ I talked to William Thomas and those guys. All those guys came in from another position to make the Wrecking Crew what it was. I accepted that role, and it didn’t take long at all. It took about a year to get the blocking schemes and where I fit, but like I said, I thank him every day for helping me make that transition. It helped me provide for my family later on.”
“It was torture (watching the Aggie defense the past couple years). It was torture. You cover your eyes. Chris Crooms and I would sit there and look at each other and say, ‘What would a young Coryatt do in this day? What would a young Jason Glenn do? What would a young Aaron Glenn do?’ We still put ourselves in those predicaments, because we still love the game. Right now it’s refreshing. We know that Coach Chavis is doing a great job. One thing that I will say is that you can see there’s a huge difference. Everybody is flying to the ball. Everybody wants a taste. That’s one thing I tell my kids. Everybody wants a taste of it. If somebody has the ball, everybody wants to go in and get a taste of that ball. It’s refreshing to see young kids today in college that are flying to the ball. I love it. I love it. I love it.”
“It’s been a long time (since the last championship in ’98). It’s a long time. I’m glad for Coach Sumlin and that he took over. He has the guys going in the right way. These guys believe in him. Like I said before, if you get guys to believe in the head coach and his philosophy that says a lot about the coach. You are going to have some ups and downs in the process, but one thing that Coach Sumlin has done and that you can see is that they’re getting better and better and better. The defense this year has been so much better than last year. This could be a special year for those guys – for all of us – not just the players, but every Aggie that’s out there. This could be a special year.”
“I tell you what, (Kansas State in ’98) had a great quarterback that I still keep in contact with, Michael Bishop. He was a Heisman contender. He was a great, great player. One thing that we realized was that they had Michael Bishop, but we had a whole team of great players. That was what Coach Slocum told us. Everybody knows Dat (Nguyen), and Dat is one of the all-time greatest linebackers to every play in college history in my opinion. We had him. We had Rich Coady. We had Warrick Holdman on defense. Then on offense, we had Sirr Parker who was one of the fastest guys to ever play at A&M. We had players, but the thing about it is that we played the whole game. That’s it. We give kids landmarks for where to finish, and we tell them to run through the cones. We finished. We ran through the cones.”
“Coach Slocum will always be one of my favorite coaches. He’s a great guy. He even did a little dance. We all looked at him like, ‘Man, I’m ready to go play!’ I don’t know what that dance was or what it’s called, but Coach Slocum knew his players. He knew his players. It wasn’t just, ‘Hey, go to practice. Go to class.’ He actually knew his players. That right there helped us beat Kansas State, because he knew how to keep us loose and let us go play. That’s what he instilled in us. It was a no-brainer.”
Aggie Flashback with former linebacker Jason Glenn
Key quotes from Jason Glenn interview
“(Coaching high school football at Klein Oak) is a great opportunity. It’s also a great learning curve. My dream job is to be a head coach at the high school level. Who better to learn from than Coach (David) Smith? He’s been doing this for 22 years at the same school. I’m just soaking it all in and going from there.”“To be honest with you, (most of my press conference quotes in college) came off the top of my head. I’m a people person. I love people. I love little kids. My personality fits to where I can do press conferences. It just goes from there. Rusty, you made it a lot easier on me and made me a lot more comfortable. I could be myself in interviews. I don’t have to fake and be somebody I’m not. I could be myself.”
“My wife brought it up. Our anniversary is March 31st. She was like, ‘Hey, do you remember when you had a press conference and I called you in the middle of it? You put all those guys on hold just to talk to me.’ That earned me a lot of points to this day. I’ve been married 14 years.”
“(Dan Campbell being named interim head coach of the Miami Dolphins) is a great, great opportunity. I know one thing: Dan is going to work his tail off, and you are going to remember Dan Campbell. I promise you that. As a coach and as a person, he was always a great leader for us. He’s going to do a great job there. He’s going to have his guys playing hard for him. One thing about coaching – everyone thinks it’s just the X’s and O’s. From being a coach, it’s not about that all the time. It’s about getting guys to want to play for you. I think that’s the biggest compliment a coach can ever have. It’s not being remembered for the X’s and O’s but that you can get the most out of your players. I think Dan can get the most out of those guys. I think he’s going to do a great, great job there."
“I remember this. Coach Slocum came through and said, ‘I want you to try this linebacker thing.’ The first name I thought about was Dan Campbell. I knew I was going to have to go up against Dan who was a lineman. He’s 6’6”, and at the time he was 265 or 270. He was a tight end. Coach threw me in there, and I’m looking at Dan like, ‘Oh, my God. Okay. Here we go.’ The first time I went against him, I used a spin move. He fell. I was like, ‘Man, this linebacker thing is easy!’ They put me back in again, and I tried that same move. Dan grabbed me somewhere on my body. I still don’t know where it was. He must have just shot-putted me from the practice field to Netum Steed. I knew right then that I was going to go up against Dan every day, because he is so passionate and he loves the game of football. That’s the guy that you really, really want to go up against, because he’s going to make you better. He’s going to take that into this coaching deal. He’s going to make guys better. He’s got quotes too. He had some quotes for you.”
“I coached for a little bit in the NFL, and it wasn’t for me. As soon as the season was offer with, my wife and I decided, ‘Hey, let’s go back to Texas.’ I want to stay at the high school level. I’m planning on being a head coach soon. I want to stay at the high school level, and I want to be a head coach. My passion, really, is kids. That’s my passion. My high school coach, Bernie Simon, did some great things for me. He did some great things that helped me get into A&M academically. He also taught me some hard work values. I do. I want to be a high school head coach. One thing about it is that my career will not be based on wins and losses. My career will be based on how many kids I can help get into college. That’s what I really want to do.”
“(Coach Simon) taught me a lot of things about hard work, and so did my dad. Getting that from two great men – the more great men you can have around you, the more likely you’ll become a great man. One thing I tell my kids is that if you want to be average, keep doing average things. You’ll have an average life. You’ll play average. You’ll have an average wife. You’ll have average kids. You’ll have an average house. Everything about you will be average, but if you hang around great people, it’ll translate to everything you are in life. With that being said, Coach Simon and my dad are great men. They helped mold me into the man I am today.”
“My brother, Aaron, was also one of my mentors in this coaching profession. He was already there. I would go to all the games. I knew that (A&M) was the place for me. It’s easy to go where it feels like home. A&M felt like home. You get offers from here and there and all these other places. You know, you take the trips to see for sure, but I knew A&M was where my heart was. It says a lot about A&M to have brothers going to the same school. From the Coryatts to the McKinneys to the Matthews right now, you have so many brothers that have played at A&M. That says a lot about a school. Especially for the parents to know and say, ‘This is where your brother went. You should check it out a bit more.’ It says a lot about A&M, and it was an easy choice for me. It was a no-brainer.”
“(Moving to linebacker), it took me about a year to get comfortable. In high school, I was a deep safety. I used to run the alleys and make tackles and picks, but I trusted Coach Slocum, the evaluation and what they were doing. He kind of told me before that I might be moving to linebacker, and I was like, ‘Hey coach, wherever you want me to play.’ I talked to William Thomas and those guys. All those guys came in from another position to make the Wrecking Crew what it was. I accepted that role, and it didn’t take long at all. It took about a year to get the blocking schemes and where I fit, but like I said, I thank him every day for helping me make that transition. It helped me provide for my family later on.”
“It was torture (watching the Aggie defense the past couple years). It was torture. You cover your eyes. Chris Crooms and I would sit there and look at each other and say, ‘What would a young Coryatt do in this day? What would a young Jason Glenn do? What would a young Aaron Glenn do?’ We still put ourselves in those predicaments, because we still love the game. Right now it’s refreshing. We know that Coach Chavis is doing a great job. One thing that I will say is that you can see there’s a huge difference. Everybody is flying to the ball. Everybody wants a taste. That’s one thing I tell my kids. Everybody wants a taste of it. If somebody has the ball, everybody wants to go in and get a taste of that ball. It’s refreshing to see young kids today in college that are flying to the ball. I love it. I love it. I love it.”
“It’s been a long time (since the last championship in ’98). It’s a long time. I’m glad for Coach Sumlin and that he took over. He has the guys going in the right way. These guys believe in him. Like I said before, if you get guys to believe in the head coach and his philosophy that says a lot about the coach. You are going to have some ups and downs in the process, but one thing that Coach Sumlin has done and that you can see is that they’re getting better and better and better. The defense this year has been so much better than last year. This could be a special year for those guys – for all of us – not just the players, but every Aggie that’s out there. This could be a special year.”
“I tell you what, (Kansas State in ’98) had a great quarterback that I still keep in contact with, Michael Bishop. He was a Heisman contender. He was a great, great player. One thing that we realized was that they had Michael Bishop, but we had a whole team of great players. That was what Coach Slocum told us. Everybody knows Dat (Nguyen), and Dat is one of the all-time greatest linebackers to every play in college history in my opinion. We had him. We had Rich Coady. We had Warrick Holdman on defense. Then on offense, we had Sirr Parker who was one of the fastest guys to ever play at A&M. We had players, but the thing about it is that we played the whole game. That’s it. We give kids landmarks for where to finish, and we tell them to run through the cones. We finished. We ran through the cones.”
“Coach Slocum will always be one of my favorite coaches. He’s a great guy. He even did a little dance. We all looked at him like, ‘Man, I’m ready to go play!’ I don’t know what that dance was or what it’s called, but Coach Slocum knew his players. He knew his players. It wasn’t just, ‘Hey, go to practice. Go to class.’ He actually knew his players. That right there helped us beat Kansas State, because he knew how to keep us loose and let us go play. That’s what he instilled in us. It was a no-brainer.”
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