[Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr has expressed the utmost respect for the MAC and Novak. They coached together on Moeller's staff at Illinois.] When you look at college football the last four or five years, ... Joe has done as good of a job as anybody in the country. |
[On the positive side for the Wolverines, Lloyd Carr said he felt they had found a defense after it had been widely dismissed as incapable. Notre Dame finished with 244 yards of offense and was 4-for-15 on third down. It gained a paltry 56 yards in the second half.] We lost a football game, but I think we found a defense, ... I liked the way we played from a standpoint of effort and aggressiveness. I thought we were very physical. That's the kind of defense, if we can maintain that kind of effort, we'll have a good football team. |
[The two returns] were very important. It's a lot easier to play offensive football when you've got the ball on their end of the field. |
A big play in the game was when Chad got hit. It looked to me, well, it certainly was a big play there. |
An old poet said, 'It's better to go to the Rose Bowl and lose than not to have gotten there at all,' ... What I want to do is keep going out there until we win one of those damn things. |
An old poet said, 'It's better to go to the Rose Bowl and lose than not to have gotten there at all.' What I want to do is keep going out there (to Pasadena) until we win one of those things. |
Antonio is a great athlete and a guy who has tremendous upside. He had a wonderful freshman year if you consider some of the nagging injuries he had. Yes, it will be a significant loss if we lose him. |
Anytime you have change -- depending on what those changes are -- it creates certainly new blood, and change is part of our world. It's just the way it is. It's no different in the coaching profession -- change is part of the process. |
At some point he will be considered with the very, very best offensive linemen that have ever played here and that's high praise, ... He is so talented athletically and he is so tough mentally. For anybody who was going to start a football team, Jake Long would be a great place to start. |
At some point he will be considered with the very, very best offensive linemen that have ever played here and that's high praise. He is so talented athletically and he is so tough mentally. For anybody who was going to start a football team, Jake Long would be a great place to start. |
Being a quarterback is a process. And I think he made a lot of progress. I think he made some very good throws out there today, then he had some very poor plays that he'd like to have back. |
But I thought we did some good things. No. 1, I thought we really pressured the quarterback and knocked him down a few times. I liked that. |
Certainly, depending upon the outcome of it. Yeah, it will be a significant loss if we lose him. |
David Underwood has distanced himself. He clearly is the No. 1 tailback, and he's done that through being in the best condition of his life. |
Dealing with success is more agreeable than dealing with losing, ... but it's no less difficult. Now we have to deal with all these people patting us on the back. But it's not wise to listen to that because it might distract you from what you need to get done. |