Louisville Head Coach's Quotes
Syracuse Football
Syracuse vs. Louisville
November 10, 2012
Carrier Dome, Syracuse N.Y.
Louisville Head Coach Charlie Strong Quotes
Opening Statement:
“I am very embarrassed today for our program. We didn’t play well—the preparation and the execution weren’t there. We didn’t play well in all three phases—offense, defense and the kicking game. We have a lot to learn from this game. Now we have to go back. We have two more games and have to see where this football team is. This was a good experience for us — to come into a hostile environment and see how we would play and we just didn’t play well today.”
On coming out looking flat:
“It wasn’t so much of what they did; it is what we did to ourselves. I always tell them it’s not what an opponent does to you it’s what you do to yourselves.”
On the Alec Lemon matchup:
“He’s all vertical routes and Hakeem [Smith] can cover him. If you don’t get pressure, then the ball is released then the guy is running all down the middle of the field and the guy is all vertical routes, then you will have an issue trying to cover him.”
On Senorise Perry’s injury:
“I don’t think Senorise hurt us at all because we have Jeremy Wright and Corvin Lamb come in, who we threw a screen pass to him and he goes for a touchdown. We have enough running backs. It wasn’t because the injury to Senorise hurt us.”
About flaws showing up today:
“The flaws really showed up today. But you come on the road and you are going to get flaws. You have to be prepared. Number one you have to pack your defense, we didn’t pack our defense today. You have to pack your special teams, we didn’t pack our special teams. Its discipline, we weren’t a very disciplined football team today. Together we didn’t play well as a football team—offense, defense or special teams. When that happens to you and you have those types of issues, it’s what happens—you come into an environment like this and lose a game.”
On difficulty stopping the run all season:
“There is a solution. Guys have to get off the block and make plays. That’s your solution.”
On the running game:
“It wasn’t that, it was playing behind the chains. If you play behind the chains then you play behind the score and you are going to have to throw the ball to try to get back in the game and that’s what we tried to do.”
On tackling issues:
“It was tackling issues and guys not staying in there gap. It is all about gap control, guys getting blocks and getting to third down—we had them at third down and it was completion after completion and they were able to convert on third down.”
On the timeouts on early drives:
“We didn’t have the right personal out there, but that didn’t hurt us. We still had a chance. It’s still third down and one and you don’t get the first down.”
On talking to the team about the loss:
“I don’t have to say anything. Those guys played the game, so they will see it and feel it themselves.”
Syracuse vs. Louisville
November 10, 2012
Carrier Dome, Syracuse N.Y.
Louisville Head Coach Charlie Strong Quotes
Opening Statement:
“I am very embarrassed today for our program. We didn’t play well—the preparation and the execution weren’t there. We didn’t play well in all three phases—offense, defense and the kicking game. We have a lot to learn from this game. Now we have to go back. We have two more games and have to see where this football team is. This was a good experience for us — to come into a hostile environment and see how we would play and we just didn’t play well today.”
On coming out looking flat:
“It wasn’t so much of what they did; it is what we did to ourselves. I always tell them it’s not what an opponent does to you it’s what you do to yourselves.”
On the Alec Lemon matchup:
“He’s all vertical routes and Hakeem [Smith] can cover him. If you don’t get pressure, then the ball is released then the guy is running all down the middle of the field and the guy is all vertical routes, then you will have an issue trying to cover him.”
On Senorise Perry’s injury:
“I don’t think Senorise hurt us at all because we have Jeremy Wright and Corvin Lamb come in, who we threw a screen pass to him and he goes for a touchdown. We have enough running backs. It wasn’t because the injury to Senorise hurt us.”
About flaws showing up today:
“The flaws really showed up today. But you come on the road and you are going to get flaws. You have to be prepared. Number one you have to pack your defense, we didn’t pack our defense today. You have to pack your special teams, we didn’t pack our special teams. Its discipline, we weren’t a very disciplined football team today. Together we didn’t play well as a football team—offense, defense or special teams. When that happens to you and you have those types of issues, it’s what happens—you come into an environment like this and lose a game.”
On difficulty stopping the run all season:
“There is a solution. Guys have to get off the block and make plays. That’s your solution.”
On the running game:
“It wasn’t that, it was playing behind the chains. If you play behind the chains then you play behind the score and you are going to have to throw the ball to try to get back in the game and that’s what we tried to do.”
On tackling issues:
“It was tackling issues and guys not staying in there gap. It is all about gap control, guys getting blocks and getting to third down—we had them at third down and it was completion after completion and they were able to convert on third down.”
On the timeouts on early drives:
“We didn’t have the right personal out there, but that didn’t hurt us. We still had a chance. It’s still third down and one and you don’t get the first down.”
On talking to the team about the loss:
“I don’t have to say anything. Those guys played the game, so they will see it and feel it themselves.”
