“Definitely, get my mind off basketball.”

— Andrew Deves, Architectural engineering major, St. Louis

“Yeah, I want to see how our team's going to look with our new coach and program.”

— Shabir Sultani, Chemistry major, Overland Park

“Yes, I am, because I think Turner Gill is going to be great.”

— Miranda Biggs, Speech language hearing/French major, Kansas City, Mo.

“I'm not really excited about football in general, but since it's KU I'll probably pay more attention to it than I normally would.”

— Hammam Khatir, Molecular biology major, Lawrence