207 ordspråk av Kirk Ferentz
Kirk Ferentz
Usually when you see a stat like that, at least for a team like us, that's an indicator you're coming from behind and you've got a lot of work to do. But you've got to give our opponent a lot of credit. They played a great game.
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Watching the coverage of that thing . . . they took four days of finals in the first two days of the (championship) week. I can't imagine the players or coaches were having an awful lot of fun. I don't know how they do it.
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We brought a lot of first?and second?year guys out. It was certainly good to get a look at them.
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We certainly looked a little better than last week. It was hard not to.
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We did a lot of stuff that didn't look like us in the first half.
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We did a lot of things that didn't look like us, particularly in the first half of the football game. But that being said, I think our opponent had something to do with it. It is an excellent football team; we knew that coming in. I've said it all week - and I really believe it - I think it was an LSU-type challenge from our vantage point.
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We did a lot of things, especially in the first half, that were pretty uncharacteristic of our football team. We knew coming in that we couldn't make a lot of mistakes, but we did.
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We didn't see this coming at all.
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We don't know how to act right now, ... The good news is it's a good quarterback coming back. He's a lot of fun to be around most of the time.
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We don't necessarily shop at the same stores as Florida, Florida State and Miami, but we do recruit this area and being down here is a real plus for us.
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We faced some adversity, and to respond in a positive way, that's good for everybody. Hopefully we learned something about ourselves.
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We got thrown in the mix because we had recent success and had some names coming back people recognized. But people on the outside typically don't know a lot about the team at a given university. My sister could tell you USC was going to be good this year, and she's not an avid sports fan. After some obvious choices, people are just throwing darts.
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We had two choices after the ballgame in Chicago. We could dwell on what happened the previous game or previous games, or we could look forward to what was in front of us and try to make something of that opportunity. That's what our guys chose to do.
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We have enough players. It's just a matter of getting the whole thing to mesh.
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We need to eliminate some things. We need to focus better as coaches. We know what we can and can't do and we need to steer the car in that direction.
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