Post Game Quotes
11/7/2009 12:00:00 AM | Football
Nov. 7, 2009
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Tulsa Head Coach Todd Graham
Opening Statements...
"I'm really proud of our guys. I don't think I've ever had a group play as hard as our guys tonight. I'm really proud of our players and our coaching staff. Our guys were very, very deserving of the win."
Are you more proud because maybe they played against an impossible?
"No it wasn't impossible."
Coach, can you talk about the onside kick?
"Didn't get it."
Can you talk about the way G.J. played tonight?
"I don't think we have a quarterback controversy."
Was G.J. running more tonight by design?
"He played tonight like he's played all year. He got knocked out the first series last week. Tonight, he made good decisions with the football."
Other Statements...
"Coach Hand did a great job calling the plays tonight. We generated a lot of offense... scored when we needed to score. In the end, two turnovers were very costly for us. We have a really good football team. Tonight, that one hurts really, really bad. We felt like we were the best team on the field tonight. Our guys outplayed them."
"Case Keenum is really special and it's a lot of work playing defense against him... a really special, classy guy... I really wish him nothing but the best... it's really great to see guys that are great players and also first class gentlemen... I really am impressed with him. He's really very difficult to defend."
Coach, talk about Charles Clay's four touchdowns tonight...
"Charles played outstanding the last several weeks. He's really stepped it up and he's been healthy and played really well the last three ballgames."
Other Statements...
"The difference in our football team, hands-down, tonight was Tyler Holmes, back in the line-up... it was unbelievable the difference he made.'
Charles Clay at wildcat?
"A.J. was out. He had a concussion and he didn't play tonight. We worked Charles into the wildcat, and he did a great job with it."
Other Statements...
"I'm really, really proud of Justin Skillens and Ricky Johnson...Two true freshmen coming in a playing... Slick (Shelley) got hurt early... Damaris was unbelievable. I'm proud of all of our guys."
Tulsa Players
G.J. Kinne
G.J., we heard that you just had the first 300-yard passing and 100-yard rushing game in TU school history. Can you tell us what it was like to have a night like that?
"I just credit that to my o-line like I did earlier. The most important thing is that we didn't win, and we have to work on that. We're going to play the next three games and win those."
Damaris Johnson
Todd said that he still believes this is a good football team, despite the four losses. How good is this football team?
"I believe we have a good football team. It seems we're just not showing it now, but things are going to stay the same in the locker room. We're going to pat each other on the back, get on each other. You know, we got these next three games we have to go out and win."
Houston Head Coach Kevin Sumlin
Opening Statement...
"We can handle these type of games as long as we have to. It beats the alternative, so you don't have any choice if you want to win. Like I said last week, you get in those situations and game plans change and your job is to win. However you can do it, you do it. Over the course of the last four or five weeks, we've found all kinds of ways to do that."
"There have been times where our offense has struggled and our defense has come on and helped us, like at SMU. Our defense struggled early tonight and then later on our offense got bogged down. The thing that has really caught on is our special teams, and not just Matt Hogan. Tyron Carrier gave us another returned kickoff for a touchdown, and we had pretty good coverage on the second-leading all-purpose player in the country, Damaris Johnson."
On the end of the game...
"As coaches you can't get down, as long as there is time on the clock you have to try and figure out a way to stay positive. As long as there is time on the clock, you have to try and win the game. You can't panic. Our coaching staff did a great job of not panicking and our kids did a good job of handling the situation."
