From CW's Press Conference:
Q. I think you mentioned last week if he keeps on progressing, he'll probably end up being a first round draft pick.
COACH WEIS: I'd be surprised if he wasn't.
Q. What does he need to do to get to that level?
COACH WEIS: The more experience you get, you know you have to understand now, first round draft choice, when you talk about the NFL, is an abstract because there's different ranges within the first round. There's a lot of dollars difference. You look at the first pick of the first round and the last pick of the first round and you're talking about zillions of dollars difference.
So going into the NFL, you can't just be one year wonders, like all of a sudden you have one year and all of a sudden everyone is in love with you. People, when they're going to invest that much money, when they are going to invest those big millions and millions of dollars, they want to make sure that they're getting what they feel is a proven commodity. The more experience you have, the better off you'll be.
Q. When you were talking about draft choices and such, as a college coach, how do you keep agents away from your kids?
COACH WEIS: Our players have a very unique opportunity that most college kids won't have because I buffer for them.
So I've talked to every one of these kids already. I've talked to every one of them. I've talked to all the kids who have no eligibility left and I've talked to all the ones that would be draft eligible with eligibility left. So I've talked to every one of them myself.
They know, because they have a resource like me, they know and they know that I'll tell them the truth. So I think because of that, it makes it a little easier to make sure we don't do something foolish.
Q. I think you mentioned last week if he keeps on progressing, he'll probably end up being a first round draft pick.
COACH WEIS: I'd be surprised if he wasn't.
Q. What does he need to do to get to that level?
COACH WEIS: The more experience you get, you know you have to understand now, first round draft choice, when you talk about the NFL, is an abstract because there's different ranges within the first round. There's a lot of dollars difference. You look at the first pick of the first round and the last pick of the first round and you're talking about zillions of dollars difference.
So going into the NFL, you can't just be one year wonders, like all of a sudden you have one year and all of a sudden everyone is in love with you. People, when they're going to invest that much money, when they are going to invest those big millions and millions of dollars, they want to make sure that they're getting what they feel is a proven commodity. The more experience you have, the better off you'll be.
Q. When you were talking about draft choices and such, as a college coach, how do you keep agents away from your kids?
COACH WEIS: Our players have a very unique opportunity that most college kids won't have because I buffer for them.
So I've talked to every one of these kids already. I've talked to every one of them. I've talked to all the kids who have no eligibility left and I've talked to all the ones that would be draft eligible with eligibility left. So I've talked to every one of them myself.
They know, because they have a resource like me, they know and they know that I'll tell them the truth. So I think because of that, it makes it a little easier to make sure we don't do something foolish.