Al Groh
Al Groh
Al Grohis an American football analyst and former player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1981 to 1986 and at the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2009, compiling a career college football coaching record of 85–92. Groh was also the head coach for the New York Jets of the National Football Leaguefor one season, in 2000, tallying a mark of 9–7. He last coached as the defensive coordinator for Georgia Tech...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 July 1944
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We haven't pursued this with great urgency. He wasn't in particular discomfort Sunday and he said he was feeling even better Monday.
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We could just as easily lose a player in the fall as we can right now. This is an opportunity for us to build a little background for some of the things that could possibly happen during the course of a real season.
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What will I do without you? They say that life goes on. I'm feeling sorry for myself. I can't believe you're gone.
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He's a great model for the university in general. To have a player of this level and this accomplishment, who's also graduated in seven semesters, paints a pretty good profile of what we're looking for.
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We were hoping it would be a game-time decision last week.
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gets a lot of attention, but what's really important in being a solid team week in and week out is being able to keep your opponents down, and they're really good at that.
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From an experience spectrum, we're on both ends of the spectrum, and we have little in-between.
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I don't think you'd call him one of those knock-the-wall-down guys, but he is what the quarterback needs to be, and that's accurate.
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Fortunately, we do have some competitive depth there, and we'll just let that play out.
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Fortunately, there is an easy way and the coach doesn't have to be very smart to figure that out and minimize that problem.
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I analyzed everything from the top down. This includes me, the systems and all the way down to the shoes we wore.
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I wouldn't say that's what he bases his game on, but he has good athletic ability and good sense of how to use it.
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I would say in the last 12 minutes, we had the opportunity to make some plays and BC had the opportunity to make some plays. The game hinged on their ability to make those plays and the fact that we did not.
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If we get into (injuries), then it's like we're setting a scene for not doing well. We believe in the players and we trust the players we put in the game. ? When you start talking about how badly you miss certain guys, then you're doing a disservice to those kids battling hard for you, as if what they're giving you isn't enough.