Post game quotes

Tricky_Falcon · Post by **Tricky_Falcon** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:24 pm

Coach Gregg Brandon:
"We made every kicking gaffe in football, but we still won the game."

"I'll tip my hat to Buffalo and Coach Gill, he had those kids ready to play. They came out and executed on us, made plays and they had their chances to win the game."

"It all comes back to the effort and intensity in the off season. All the blood, sweat and tears that these kids pour into their off season when working with our strength coach Aaron Hillmann, we just presented him the game ball for outlasting people."

"We talked about it at halftime. We have invested too much, and we got it done."

Talking about Barnes and Turner
"They are both outstanding runners, I think you saw that tonight. Having both of them back there gives us extra looks. Having the ability to have the quarterback run brings a whole new dimension to the offense."

"I talked to Greg Christopher after the game and he said it was a great game, but there was a lot of teachable moments that came out of this game. You aren't kidding, a lot of teachable moments."

"We stepped up and made plays at the end, on both sides of the ball to have a chance to win the game."

"Dozier has played two real good games now, he has really stepped up. It was nice to have Terrel White back in there. He brings an old school feel to the team."

Erique Dozier:
"This win is huge, it's a MAC East game. The start of our conference play."

Speaking about the 4th and one stop
"We just put it on our shoulders as a defense. We had to win the game."

Jacob Hardwick
Talking about the last play of the game:
"There was a lot of emotional there, we just couldn't let anything stop us. We been working all through the summer, all through the winter, with everything we've been through, we just had to take it there. We don't lose at the Doyt."

Ruben Ruiz
Talking about the special teams struggles: "We can't give up on our teammates, we are family. I am not giving anything in, I know we are going to fix it."

Anthony Turner
Speaking about 4th quarter comeback
"It was definitely a confidence builder, its going to help this team throughout the season. This game sets the tone for the rest of the season."

Playing in the same backfield as Barnes:
"We got each others back, on and off the field. That's what our quarterback coach has been telling us, we have to have each others back. We care about one another, and it carrying over onto the field."

Freddie Barnes
"The offensive line is great, right now they are the base of our offense. If we can just build around them, we are going to have a great season."

UB Head Coach Turner Gill
Gill's opening statement
"Let's start off by saying I am very proud of this football team and this staff. We did a great job by fighting back and competing on every single play. I am very proud of them and playing a close game.

On the delays "We were going to continue to fight back with all the delays. That was a big thing we talked about was focus staying on track on the things we are trying to get done. They did a good job."

"Keeping a better focus on the end there and keep fighting. They ended up executing at the end better than we did and that's what you have to learn from this and what can we do better to execute."

On what you can take from the game
"When we watch the tape we have to see what we can do better for execution when we get inside the 25 both offensively and defensively."

On the last play
"The last play we ran an isolation type play and Steven King fumbled and we asked why we can't advance a fumble and on 4th down it has to be the ball carrier to pick it up and advance the football if it was any other down anyone could pick it up and advance it."

On the game being a wild game
"I would say it was wild because of the delays and I have been in some wild games but I have never been in any kind of delay game at all so that's an experience I have never had before."

On what coach said during the break
"I told them to relax told them to take their shoes off I didn't give them a big speech I just told them to relax their mind and relax their body."

Steven King
"They(BG) did a good job stopping us and fighting for extra yards. We had opportunities to close out the game and we just didn't finish."

Ramon Guzman
"You have to keep fighting. The game isn't over because a team scores a touchdown. We first scored when we blocked that punt, we were right back in the game. I guess another lesson, like he(coach) said, pay attention to the detail, it's important to focus....we just came up short."

Drew Willy
"It means we proved ourselves tonight, Bowling Green is a good team and this proves we can hang with any team in this conference and we know we are going to get back to work and prepare for Northern Illinois and press along towards our goals to get a win each week and keep working hard."

Ramon Guzman
"Another thing that it proves to us, BG is a team of tradition, they have MAC championships and we played them to three overtimes, it proves we are heading in the right direction."

"We are not going to be the stepping-stone of any other MAC team anymore, we are going to come in a fight, we came in today and fought through three overtimes and came up a little short but we are going to fight to the end."

"We were there last week, we went to overtime last week, and it wasn't a situation where we haven't been there but a situation where we need to execute."

"Definitely been one of the hardest fought, it came down to the wire for both teams. It pushed us mentally and physically, I guess for both teams, it was a good one for them, I tip my hat to them, at the end of the day we were up and we could have held them but there was a lack of execution."

"BG is a team of tradition, they have been one of the tough teams in the MAC for a while and for us to come out and fight them for three overtimes. At this time last year we were 0-2 or 0-11 when we played them(BG), now look at us, 3 overtimes, 48-40, what killed us was execution."

Steven King
"It's no time to get down. We still have the rest of the season left."

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:29 pm

I didn't see this in there but it was on the postgame show:

Reporter: 'Coach, what are you going to do about the special teams?'

Coach Brandon: 'I don't know.'

Wow, that was just what I would expect. He's been clueless to the horrendous special teams play for two years. Why should he know what to do now?

Tricky_Falcon · Post by **Tricky_Falcon** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:31 pm

Ouch. That's not what you want to hear from your coach. You would think he would make up some kind of bs answer like most coaches do.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:31 pm

I just thought that as bad as they were last year, someone (like the Head Coach) would take the initiative to fix it in winter and Fall. Guess not. Look at the stats--those plays kept Buffalo in the game. We end up with our punter kicking key extra points. I can't imagine how it didn't get fixed.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:34 pm

They missed the gem about how much of a force Buffalo was going to be in the MAC East too.

Nothing I love more than a coach who is clueless and admits it.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:40 pm

"I don't know" is the honest answer.

I'm sure Brandon will make love to his wife, sleep on it and watch some film in the morning with his assistants and figure it out.

That is, if he isn't watching film right now.

With the athletes we have, this doesn't need to happen. If it means the entire offense stays in for punts and kicks, then so be it. There must be a way to fix this.

Special teams may not be a strength for us this year, but it can't possibly stay this bad.

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:42 pm

Warthog wrote:I didn't see this in there but it was on the postgame show:

Reporter: 'Coach, what are you going to do about the special teams?'

Coach Brandon: 'I don't know.'

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:54 pm

[quote="Schadenfreude"]"I don't know" is the honest answer.
[quote]

True. I give him enough credit to believe that if he actually knew how to fix it he would've done so in the offseason.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:58 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:"I don't know" is the honest answer.

I'm sure Brandon will make love to his wife, sleep on it and watch some film in the morning with his assistants and figure it out.

That is, if he isn't watching film right now.

With the athletes we have, this doesn't need to happen. If it means the entire offense stays in for punts and kicks, then so be it. There must be a way to fix this.

Special teams may not be a strength for us this year, but it can't possibly stay this bad.

Schad, then why hasn't he figured it out BY now. This is actually worse than things were last year.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:07 pm

Yeah -- he had a full offseason to fix it. Since most of practice during the season is dedicated to game planning and preperation, I have little faith it will be fixed this season.

It's not about the kickers for me. It's about everything else. I just hope rojas doesn't A: lose faith and transfer or B: get his leg broke in the meantime.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:09 pm

hammb wrote:
Schadenfreude wrote:"I don't know" is the honest answer.

True. I give him enough credit to believe that if he actually knew how to fix it he would've done so in the offseason.

My thoughts as well hammb. We have watched this sh!t for 15+ games now and his answer is still 'I don't know'. I think he honestly doesn't know. Plain and simple.

Maybe I should e-mail him and volunteer to have my 7th grade CYO team come out and show him how we do it.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:11 pm

orangeandbrown wrote:Schad, then why hasn't he figured it out BY now. This is actually worse than things were last year.

I dunno. I ain't a football coach.

I do think the fact that he has two true freshman doing the kicking game was a factor -- which isn't to heap it all on them, but their inexperience was a factor.

That's part of it right there -- and, extrapolating, I see a team that needs to grow. I'm not necessarily gonna put it all on Brandon's feet. Not yet.

As I said: The crisis is real at this point, no question. It is no longer a fluke that we suck at special teams.

But two things give me room for optimism:

-- No Division I-A team could possibly be this bad over the course of the season. It's the law of averages. I mean, put Cincinnati Elder out there -- and they wouldn't screw up this badly on special teams over the course of a season.

-- No coach could possibly ignore the problem at this point. I fundamentally don't think special teams are that hard. Sure, kicking and punting are almost mystical in their unusualness. But the rest? Give it some extra attention -- I think it can be fixed.

Circling back: When I say "I don't know" is the best answer, I say that from the perspective of someone who has been subjected to a bit of spin now and again.

There was no way to spin tonight's special teams. "I don't know." I need to look at the film. We won. I'm going home, I'm gonna have a beer and go to bed and I'll figure it out in the morning.

You guys can bust on that quote for the next three weeks, but there really wasn't anything else to say. There was no one thing to point to. There was no way to spin it.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:23 pm

Fair enough Schad. I'm not a Coach either. Let me rephrase my question. If we couldn't fix it over the winter, what makes anyone think he can fix it in the next two weeks.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:46 pm

orangeandbrown wrote:Fair enough Schad. I'm not a Coach either. Let me rephrase my question. If we couldn't fix it over the winter, what makes anyone think he can fix it in the next two weeks.

The dire interpretation is that he thought he fixed it by landing these two youngsters from Florida, and he is shocked to learn there is a big learning curve from high school to I-A, even for people who only use their feet.

I'll be honest. I'm agnostic on the Great Punt Formation Debate. I sense it isn't the formation as much as it is execution and personnel.

My optimism springs from the fact that I think these things can be fixed.

It would be interesting to know how many true freshman, red shirt freshman and sophomores are on our special teams. Considering how many inhabit our offense and defense, it may be a sizable number.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:58 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:I sense it isn't the formation as much as it is execution and personnel.

I can understand that line of thinking. Another point I would make is that our opponents are extremely confident in these situations. And we have no confidence. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We expect to have our punt blocked and the opponent expects to block it. So that is what happens. The opponents see this formation, know exactly how to attack it, and bingo, block, TD the other way. The formation is being exploited and we keep using it. The opponent isn't peeling guys back to make a return. They know there won't be a return. Our blockers aren't blocking because they are concerned about covering the kick. Well, there is no kick to cover because they aren't blocking. There are so many holes in the execution of that formation that I can't figure out how a Div IA coach continues to think it is a good idea. I need to go to bed.