Tuberville speaks, 10/12

OK. Here is what Your Head Coach had to say today after his team's 25-22 loss to Arkansas.

• On the offense and where it's headed: "It's going to look different."
  
  
• Expound on that: "We'll have a plan. We'll start that plan this week. As we go, we'll get better at it. This time in two weeks, we won't be deviating from it. We'll be in here saying: Hey, it worked, it looked good, we're going to keep doing it or well, it's not very good but it's what we're doing and we'll keep working on it."
  
  
• On the possibility of playing freshman Barrett Trotter: "If we did decide to do that and there was an agreement in terms that he wanted to do it, we wouldn't play him four or five plays. We'd put him out there and let him go and get him ready because I think that he could help. Again, there's a lot of water to go under the bridge to see if that will happen."
  
  
• Expound on the Trotter idea: "Say we go in and talk about it and we give it a shot and then we practice it for four or five days and then I say it's not going to work -- then we won't even go with it. I'm not going to go into a game with him and say we're going to play him four or five plays or 10 plays here and five plays. I'm not going to do that. If we're going to play him, we're going to play him. But it's got to be mutual."
  
  
• On Neil Caudle: "We're going to give him a shot. Probably what we do is, if Barrett came out, we'd compare them to see which one we thought knew more about what we were doing and could get it done. I'm not just going to throw Neil under the bus. We're going to give him a shot. That's what I'm saying. Whether Barrett comes out there or not, Neil will have an opportunity."
  
  
• On Chris Todd's immediate future: "We wouldn't be talking about these other things if we thought Chris could get it done. That doesn't mean he can't. I just think Chris' arm, if you look at it, isn't 100 percent."
  
  
• On Kodi Burns' role: "We've just got to get some continuity. You can talk to Barrett Trotter and Neil Caudle and "all those guys," but Kodi is a guy who's going to have to be a factor for us. He has good feet, good legs, can run, can make plays. He's got some experience. He'll get better. He had some problems yesterday. He's worked through them. He's coachable; he’ll listen."
  
  
• On the possibility of Tray Blackmon needing surgery on his right wrist: "They're trying to decide. We've been trying to put it off. He's done good on kickoff coverage but it's hard, and it would be on any of us, to put that hand in there on contact. They're going to have to decide what they're going to do with it. We don't want it to be a problem for him 15 years from now."
  
  
• Injury summarization: He said both Jerraud Powers (hamstring) and Antoine Carter (ankle) are "50-50" for the West Virginia game. You read about Tray Blackmon above. Ben Tate injured a hamstring last week and didn't feel good enough to play a major role last night. Brad Lester took a pair of blows to his injured right knee last night and asked for a substitution.
  
  
• On his decision to make coordinators off-limits to interviews after the game: "It was a tough night. Tough night. I was almost not available."