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10/27/2001 12:00:00 AM | Football
Oct. 27, 2001
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Wake Forest Head Coach Jim Grobe
"We gave ourselves a chance there at the end but we lost to a good team today. I'm disappointed for the kids more than anything else. That's a pretty down lockerroom right now. They're playing as hard as they can play. We turned over the ball too many times, but I feel we got as good of an effort out of our kids as we could get."
On James MacPherson:
"James ran okay with the football and it looks like he's going to have to be our guy down the stretch. Anthony Young may work his way back in. Having the two quarterbacks helped us early this season because it forced teams to prepare for us in a couple different ways. Now, we're in a situation where we need to throw it a little bit more and that's James' stronger suit. He played hard today, he just made an unfortunate decision down the stretch."
On Turnovers:
"Really, if you look back, we had three turnovers and they had one. That's generally going to be the difference in the ballgame. You've got to take care of the ball, especially when you're down with the chance to put points on the board. You look back at a 21-14 game and turnovers are generally the difference."
On Rebounding Next Week:
"I'm proud of our kids. We play programs with a lot of history and tradition, and we are a work in progress. We're just not there yet. Our guys are giving everything they have. We just didn't win today against a good football team but we'll just keep chipping away and getting better. It's not going to happen overnight. Our kids are resilient and they'll bounce back. They've done it all year long."
Wake Forest Defensive End Calvin Pace
"I was proud of the way we stayed in the game. We almost pulled it off. Now we just have to come back against Virginia."
On Clemson QB Woodrow Dantzler:
"I'm glad he's graduating. It's hard to play against Woody Dantzler. Give him a lot of credit, he won the game for them today. I thought for the most part that we contained him but in pressure situations, he scrambled and got the first down. What can I say? Great players make great plays."
Wake Forest Quarterback James MacPherson
On Turnovers:
"We just can't turn the ball over. I was responsible for all three today and if we didn't turn the ball over, we probably would have won the game. We just have to focus on these next four games because turnovers are probably what those next four games will come down to."
On Losing Close Games:
"It's tough to take. It just hasn't happened yet but we're right there. We've got four games left so we just have to keep playing."
