Minnesota Football Press Conference

COACH CLAEYS
COACH LIMGROVER

COACH CLAEYS: You know, as far asI've had a chance to visit with Rebecca and thefamily, they feel very comfortable with what's goingon. There's not a lot to update there. It's gonewell, so I don't know a time line, as nobody does.Don't want to put one on it, but they're verypleased with the way things are going in the
situation and the things they're in.

Q. When was the visit?
COACH CLAEYS: Today, today. Yep, sovery pleased with what's going on there and thesituation. So there's really not a lot new there toreport. Anything will come through the athletic department. So with that, we're ready to getrolling towards Michigan and move on.

Q. Is anything different?
COACH CLAEYS: No, like I said, the medications a little bit different. That situation. It's really like coach said last week, that's what it comes down to is trying to regulate medication, so
that's the only difference. Before he's always what medication he was on, he's on. As he said, they wanted to try a new one, and they're just working on getting that regulated.

Q. What is the situation as far as injuries? Last week you had your linebacker,where does that stand?
Any personnel switches?
COACH CLAEYS: There's no personnel switches that I'm aware of this week that we're going to move. Everybody right now that was available for last week's game is available this week as of today, so there is nothing big. Each week, as you go along, everybody gets banged up a little bit and a little bit sore. But there is nothing there that we anticipate injury wise. Everybody will be available, unless they get hurt this week in practice, which I hope doesn't happen.

Q. What is the update on Edwards?
COACH CLAEYS: He had a good week last week in practice. We'll try to get him a few snaps this week in the game now that he's had two weeks and gave him a lot of practice at it. But when we did that, we figured it would
take a couple of weeks of practice, and probably for him to get a bunch of reps we're looking at next week's game. But with two weeks practice, he should be able to help us a little bit with what's going on. Definitely by the Purdue game I look forward to him getting some reps.

Q. If Coach Kill is going to Ann Arbor, will you guys be observing or do you think he'll be coaching and taking charge?
COACH CLAEYS: If he's there, he's coaching, all right.

Q. If he doesn't go, will you come down from the box?
COACH CLAEYS: No, sir. I wouldn't do that. The reason is I don't want to change everybody.
If I go down to the field, then somebody's got to come up to the box who isn't used to it. I like to have my Diet Coke and sit down with my papers in front of me and try to think one play ahead. So I still with the communication and head phones nowadays, I can talk to everybody on the boundary and that type of deal, so that's not an issue.
I just think it's the wrong thing to do for me to go down on the field and change what everybody else is doing. I don't want to disrupt that way. So the smoothest thing is we'll keep it going the way it is.

Q. How hard is it to prepare for Denard Robinson?
COACH CLAEYS: It's tough. The thing of it is it's easy you just put two guys on him. Well, then you've got to deal with the running back and some of the passing game. You know, if anybody's watched film, he's made several people miss with one person on him. So the key will be if we do miss him is that we force him back to where we have help. If he makes three or four of them miss like everybody else, then that's why he's a special player the way he is. There is no question we have to try to contain him, but at the same time you can't let somebody else go off and have a career day on you. In this last game they did some option with him for the first time against San Diego State. Now you have to deal with that aspect of it too. They've done a nice job of adjusting as the seasons went on. They're packaged to what he does well. And he throws the deep ball to
where receivers have caught it, and their kids have gone up and caught the ball on the deep ball a little bit. He's a special player, and that's quite a challenge for us.

Q.
Have you guys been to thatstadium?
COACH CLAEYS: I've been there. I haven't been there for game day. I know Coach Limegrover has. But we used to do football camps at Pioneer High School across the street.
COACH LIMEGROVER: I'm 1 0 there, just for the record. I'm 1 0 there as a coach.

Q. There is nothing like this stadium and what goes on with that Michigan band and everything else.
COACH CLAEYS: It's quite an experience.

Q. You played there 1 0 when?
COACH LIMEGROVER: When I was a graduate assistant at Northwestern in 1995.

Q. With your quarterbacks, I assume you had to do what did you Saturday night rotating them in that much?
COACH LIMEGROVER: Yeah, well, what happened was when we got to a situation there are some things that the guys have divided themselves out a little bit that they're doing much better. Max is doing some things as we go through the week in practice much better in certain areas than MarQueis. So as you guys know, as we've talked about a couple weeks ago, Coach Kill's talked about, are it is a learning process. So what's happened is there are some things that we've been able to learn about both guys. Yeah, you don't want to necessarily go in
the middle of a series and change somebody. We were looking to how are we going to win this football game and what was going to give us the best chance on that upcoming play? What we're doing is looking at it more
package wise and saying, okay, here's what we really, really think that MarQueis does well and what we think Max does well. Then there is that area in the middle that really either one of them can do and starting to look at it that way. We had every intention of playing Max on Saturday, and we had determined we were going
to play them and from there we just felt like as with anything, you go with the hot hands. You know,
like a streak shooter in basketball, if a guy's got the hot hand, you go.