Post Game Quotes
11/15/2003 12:00:00 AM | Football
Nov. 15, 2003
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Wake Forest Head Coach Jim Grobe
On the loss:
"I thought we had a good week of practice but we had no spirit and the kids seemed to be down after the Carolina loss."
On Connecticut:
"They have a lot of veterans and our team just did not respond at all. They have a lot of talented players and I think they could play with a lot of other teams in the country and are bowl worthy."
On Maryland in two weeks:
"We need to go back and just play good, old fundamental football. Our coaches are great teachers and we need to use them to coach our guys to be bettter fundamental football players."
Wake Forest Wide Receiver Jason Anderson
On the game: Connecticut is a really good team, and you just can't come out flat against a good team. We we're downhill from the get go. On that first play, they took our intensity away and to fight back it's really hard."
"We have to go back to the basics and work hard next week. We need to make some changes and come back hard versus Maryland. We have two weeks to think about this loss. There is no worse feeling thatn getting killed and then having tow weeks off."
Wake Forest Center Blake Lingruen
On the game: "We weren't executing tonight. There is no reason we shouldn't have moved the ball. They played great and we didn't. I think after the Clemson game we felt that we were on top of the world and lost our focus. We've been thinking that we can just walk over teams and we can't."
"This offweek is coming at the best time. We need to start focusing again. The coaches will ride us hard. I hope we get it hard on Monday, so we can get our butts in gear. We didn't get it done at any position. We act like we don't even have to show up anymore."
"At the start of the game we just came out flat and thought that we'd just beat them. We lost our focus and need to get it back before we play Maryland."
Wake Forest Quarterback Cory Randolph
"We didn't come out with the right mindset today. We did all of this to ourselves with fumbles and interceptions."
"The guys really wanted to go out and play hard and that is what we are going to have to do every Saturday. We have to push each other and hopefully we'll come out against Maryland and get a good win."
Wide Receiver Nate Morton
"They were a great team and we really want to give a lot of credit to them. We just weren't as focused and did not execute our plays."
"As a team we have to work hard and focus before we play Maryland. We have to give it everything that we've got."
UConn Head Coach Randy Edsall
"We might have saved the best for last. I'm so proud for those guys. I hope that we can play a thirteenth game because they deserve it. We know what cards were dealt and we have to deal with it."
"We did a good job in the third and fourth quarter at the line of scrimmage."
"We take care of each other and fight for each other."
UConn Running Back Cornell Brockington
"Give credit to the offensive line because without them I would not have been able to have a great game. Usually we start games out slow, but we knew that we were going to need to start out fast to stay in the game."
"Watching the film we knew we could pass the ball, so we had to come out and get a fast start because we knew they are a good football team and we needed the lead early."
UConn Wide Receiver O'Neil Wilson
On the opening drive:
"I gave him a quick move and it was a pefect pass from Dan. We wanted to attack their aggressiveness."
"We have played a lot of different teams who have had different styles of play but today we played our b est game offensivly, defensivly and special teams. This is the perfect way to end my senior season, but hopefully we'll have a chance at one more game."
UConn Quarterback Dan Orlovsky
"I felt we did what we wanted to on the field. The coaches called great plays and we executed them to perfection. I think we deserve a bowl game, we are 9-3 and we came down here and beat an ACC team that was ranked earlier in the year."