Assistant coaches' motto:  AFMIAFM ("A free meal is a free meal") -- no actually, that's the journalists' motto

Mike Falco's gone Hollywood on us -- but we're no judge; we'll leave that to the girls

That's as big a smile as Marcus Rucker has cracked since he's been here -- he said he's happy about being able to hit other people instead of being hit himself

Quinton Smith is on a mission this year, and he has that distant look in his eyes that says, "1,200-yard season" and "First Team All-Conference"

The two Rice coordinators (Paul Randolph, L, and Major Applewhite, R) listen in on Coach Graham's talk to the press

Joel Armstrong says he's just fine with the move to wideout -- doesn't care where he plays, just give him the ball

Usually blase' Luke Juist is as fired up as anybody about this season

Jarett Dillard gets the star treatment -- well, he is a star; the Coogs'll soon find out

Coach Graham seen through phalanx of cameras in the first of a whole bunch of '06 press conferences