All quarterbacks did some good things. Grothe started out slow, but look what he did at the end. You can see the talent there, and he's a freshman. You saw the athletic talent that Carlton has. Pat, you saw why he's been starting. He just has a command. |
Any time you can play a game on national television, it's something we want to do. |
Are they better than last year? They sure looked pretty good [against Oregon State]. They were good last year and they are good this year. |
At defensive end we thought we just hit the gold mine. On our board at end, we about hit on everybody we really wanted. |
Being here is great. But we're here to win a football game. |
Both are capable. Both have moments when they are great, both have moments when they're not as consistent. |
Carlton is one, Pat is two and Matt Grothe is three. |
Every one is big. every game is a championship game. You're in the Big East race, and you'd better be on and play well each week if there's any hope of winning a championship. |
Everybody is so excited about getting to a bowl ? but it is not enough. We want to win this football game and that's it. I would hope that every player on our team wants to win in the worst way and does all they can to do that. |
He made some mistakes, but he threw the ball pretty well. He's got to get better. |
He ran routes and did a pretty good job. He's not ready yet, but he looked close. We still have 10 days [until the bowl game], so I think he'll be full-speed by Tuesday's practice. |
He really did well [Wednesday]. He did maybe better than we had ... he really did a good job. |
He was our best shot to win. |
He's a very motivated individual and he doesn't want to miss this game. |
He's a young guy, a true freshman. We told him after the first time that he can't hold the ball down (low) and he's got to put the ball away. Those two turnovers gave us two tough situations. |