I think everybody realizes the importance of the last five games. They're all very important. They'd all be nice to win. |
I think if our hearts are still there we're going to do it again. Just not in seven days, |
I think the nice thing in both games, we kept looking to win, we kept looking to force the play. This team is very fit, we looked a very fit team in both games we were playing. |
I think this team is now becoming a team in its own right. And that's always the interesting thing you have to do at the start. |
I think we're now beginning to become a team. I don't think we're a team yet but we're getting very close to it. We start off at the beginning of preseason a new group of guys, then I look at every game, we should become more and more of a unit ... we always say that every game were going to improve a little bit every game. |
I thought the wide midfielders -- both Nate and Ian -- both did very well. Both scored excellent goals and you know, carried the play and were threatening throughout the game. These were the players that were causing Michigan a lot of problems throughout. |
I want to say a big thank you to everyone who came to the game on Saturday and contributed to Grassroot. Grassroot Soccer will benefit by over $7,500, which is a terrific response from the Notre Dame community. |
I'm going to have to look at the replay and see how that shot did not go in. |
It was a 0-0 tie, it was one of these games. We had some good moments; we had some moments where we didn't connect as well as we would have liked. |
It's a lot, but it's one of the things we've got to do because of the class-missed policy. This is a way that gets us to play three games without too many classes missed. |
It's been a season that's ebbed and flowed a little bit. There's been some good and bad. It would be nice to hit a little run. |
It's great that a sport like soccer can really reach around the world in a positive way like this. AIDS is a huge curse, especially in Africa. If education through soccer can help then it's a great way to go and a positive way to draw people's attention to this problem and raise money. Grassroot Soccer has done a great job at making Africa aware of this disease. |
Joe always works tremendously hard; he did a great job. Nate certainly got some shots away, maybe just a little more control when he got into that shooting position, we might have pulled something out. |
My brother took over crew chief duties a couple of weeks ago...he hadn't really been around these things for awhile and he's learned a lot very quickly. |
Quite often tall people, they're not always as well-coordinated, as athletic, and Chris is one of those fortunate people, not only is he big but he's well coordinated, ... He's a very good athlete, he's quick on his feet and he can move. He's obviously good with high balls, with balls in the air, but he's also very, very quick at getting down for low balls. |