* Neuheisel had a pretty entertaining give-and-take with TJ Simers, who wondered if CRN/CNC were babying Kevin Prince: “We’re going to disagree on babying our quarterback. I trust that the playcalls are the appropriate ones.”

* Tony Dye: “Every single one of them was a winnable game, and we were all in winnable situations. We just let it slide through our fingers every single time. It’s getting old. Two minutes they drove, what, 70 yards? That’s the kind of stuff we’re giving up that gives them these close wins.”

* Nelson Rosario: “That’s everything I did in high school. That’s natural to me. That’s stuff I’m used to doing. Honestly, I just want whatever works. But seeing that it works, we have to put that together.”

* Oregon State quarterback Sean Canfield on going short time after time: “It was just a matter of picking away at them. They weren’t giving away much deep. We saw that all night, and we saw that in film. It was just a matter of being patient and being smart with the football.”