Clemson vs Georgia Tech Post-Game Press Conference |
- Real | Windows Media (Most complete game?)I believe so. Offense got some points on the board and defense played well. Special teams played well. Forced a turnover. Coverage was good. Cole Chason punted good and protection was good. Across the board, it was our best game. (On Whitehurst being in the zone)He’s getting pretty close. If you can protect him and hold themo ff he’s got a good bit of composure. I talked to him between series and he’s coachable. His dad’s done a pretty good job with him. (On the score of the game) Nowadays but you look on a week to week basis I’m not surprised. I think they had a physical game against Auburn and FSU. I’m sure their coaching staff tired to tell them it’s a long conference schedule. You know, it’s getting pretty competitive across the country. You look and Ohio State. Marshall going out and beating Kansas state. Nothing really surprises me anymore. You like to come out like this every week but you look and Ohio State didn’t come out like this. Kansas state didn’t come out like this. It’s about realility in college football. Oklahoma maintains it and Florida State has done a good job of maintaining it, but we have a long ways to go. (On agressive throwing) We told the team that was going to be the plan that we would come out throwing it a little bit. We tried to keep them on the field and fatigue them a little bit. We told them the plan was to be aggressive. We told them Thursday and Friday and Saturday as far as the plan of attack. (On series before halftime) One timeout and I want to say 30 some seconds. It depended on the return. If we had retuned it to the 20 we would have taken a knee. But Derrick brought that thing out. We had a nice lead and we didn’t want to do anything stupid. One timeout and 30 seconds and I thought we had time to go down for a fieldgoal or a touchdown. I thought one that the players did a good job of getting a hat on a hat from a technique standpoint. Did a good job between series. I thought Brad Scott and Mike O'Cain did a good job between series matching coverages. I’ll probably have a better idea when we play Maryland. I don’t think there’s any doubt when you go into an open date after being solid on all three phases it has a positive effect. The important thing is that we don’t dthingk we arrived or that we’re a complete team. - Real | Windows Media Boys just made up their mind to take over and they played very hard. When they play well we’re going to play well. (On LB play) I can’t comment on them other than I have to watch the film. I’m sure they played well. They had 45 yards rushing. I’m really excited for the kids. They have an idea that they have a chance to play at another lievel.. hopefully with the off week they can take it to another level. Our punter did a great job and gave us good field position all night. - Real | Windows Media I’m not looking in the past I’m looking forward. If we can get better every game we can be pretty incredible. We just need to keep getting better. We had a great week of practice and it shows when you have a great week of practice. You just go out and play to the best of your capability every game you heard a lot of talk about this and this. You just want to go out and make plays. I’m just trying to do that. I’m just trying to go out and make plays. We’re getting better each week. If we keep clicking like this we can be a pretty good linebacking corps. Everybody is going to talk. But if you don’t go out there and produce it doesn’t matter. All the credit to coach Blackwell. - Real | Windows Media Coach says we only got one ball to go around. You know what I’m saying? When you get the ball. Do whatever you can with it. Charlie is a player. That’s been our problem this year. We let up in the second half. That’s what we said with this one. Let’s keep going. We want to come out and keep this thing going. - Real | Windows Media I thought I led the team well got in the right play and stuff like that. Five or six throws were bad. If they had been just average throws they would have been completions. I’m happy with the win, but I think I have agood ways to go. It was chaotic at halftime. Coach Batson the strength coach was going crazy. It was a huge momentum builder for us. Points wise and just momentum. It was just wild in the lockeroom. I swear I’ve never been in a situation like that in a lockeroom at halftime. Guys were just just invincible. Just riled up and ready to do it in the second half. Saw a couple of people at the end. Nice to come in and perform in front of a home crowd.. we couldn’t be in a better position going into this conference schedule. We scored 39 points but I think this defense is pretty good. It got fun before the end. I’m not a nervous reck out there but I don’t relax until were up by 30 with 3 minutes left. That was fun. We were willing to challenge their corners and def backs. They committed to stopping the run. They were no. 1 in the conference coming in in stopping the run. That puts a lot of pressure in their defensive backs. So we just went after them and tried to expoit that. - Real | Windows Media (On Ball's comments) We were the next opponent. That was such a big statement coming from such a small man. We didn’t appreciate that at all. We had some extra incentives at all. In the Atlanta newspaper this morning they called us soft. It was just so disrespectful. They played FSU close and they were living off of that game. You have to take each game seriously and they didn’t take us seriously. It’s a big step. Every week we’ve shown improvement. Every game we remember that first game and we don’t want it feel like that anymore. We watched the game and how they payed FSU individually. We don’t feel like they played any harder than us indivuually. We’ve always had a swager. Tonight we showed it. This game is a major confidence boost. - Real | Windows Media (On Ball's comments)Just motivated us to go out and play ball. We feel like we’re a better defense than people give us credit for. He’s a true freshman. We ain’t taking nothing away from him but we just felt like it was kinda a slap in the face to say that they weren’t going to lose another conference game. With us next on the schedule we felt like they just looked right over us. It motivated us. We had to keep him on the run all night. His throws weren’t going to be accurate if we kept him on the run. That’s what we concentrated on. We’re not going to be complacent. Now we know what we’re capapble of. We just have to concentrate on doing it every week. - Real | Windows Media Thank the Lord for this win. Without him we can’t accomplish it. Every since I’ve been here we’ve always been a good team and people didn’t give us enough credit and the only thing we were missing was the know how to finish games and a belief in ourselves. And this game right here shows that if we do believe in ourselves we can accomplish anything. Tech last week played fsu down to the wire. This was real big for us. Against georga we thought we played pretty good but the score didn’t show it as well as we played. So we really needed to come in here and get this win. The acc is a good conference in football. A win anyway you can get it is good. It wasn’t easy. No victory is easy. Tech fought hard and didn’t give up. 
Tommy Bowden Press Conference
Defensive Coord. John Lovett
LB John Leake
WR Kevin Youngblood
QB Charlie Whitehurst
DL J.J. Howard
DL Mo Fountain
WR Tony Elliot
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