GoPSUsports.com Bonus Questions with Rashard Casey - Media Day August 5, 2000GoPSUsports.com Bonus Questions with Rashard Casey - Media Day August 5, 2000

GoPSUsports.com Bonus Questions with Rashard Casey - Media Day August 5, 2000

GoPSUsports: During the press conference, you said you'd stay in the backfield all day if no one got through the offensive line. That was good for a laugh, but sometimes you do have to run. In those situations, when you are starting to run, what are you first thinking about?

Casey: When I first start to run my first thought is not to run ?C but to get the receivers open. So a lot of times I'm not running up-field, I run lateral just so they think I'm running and they have to either come up to play me or choose to stay back and play the receiver and then I play off of their reaction. So if I run lateral, and I see they keep running, then I take off up-field, but if they start and don't know what to do I'll play with them a little bit. So I make my decision.

GoPSUsports: When you're past the point of looking for an open receiver and you're just pure running, how far down the field do you see? How close are you looking for the next tackler? Are you looking for colors? What's it like?

Casey: It's basically all instinct. I never really noticed how wide open my eyes would get, how big they would get, until we played Iowa and Mike Cerimele told me that I stared at him so hard and my eyes opened up so wide that he didn't know what to do so he just stopped. After that, you catch a picture here and there and I notice that my eyes are really wide open. I see pretty much the field where I'm going, even if it's the last second, I notice a lot of things, but it's just basically all instinct.

GoPSUsports: Tell us about making a guy miss, what's that feel like?

Casey: Once I make them miss, now I know I got one behind me, but I know he's not giving up so I know can't stop I have to just keep going and if I make another guy miss it's like two guys coming after me so I have to watch out in front of me and realize that if I slow up there's somebody always coming behind me.