"A new coach is going to bring his rules and his aspects of coaching," said [Rahsaan] Moore, a redshirt freshman tailback. "Everybody was comfortable with Coach Friedgen. It’s always going to be a percentage of some people who aren’t happy. It was an even greater percentage because we came in with a coach who we trusted. Automatically, when a new coach takes over, you might think, ‘this might not be for me.’" [...]

"I guess it was the way we were talked to and treated, it was almost as if we were looked down upon," Till said. "It wasn’t a family atmosphere I felt there. It was very businesslike. It felt like I was in the military. I would say over 50 percent of the team was unhappy with what was going on. Most have to deal with it because they don’t have anywhere else to go."