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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Not so much more speed . . . but more confidence in making that cut and taking advantage of what was there,
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It's easy to see they've got their quarterback situation in place for some time. They look like they all came from the same factory. It doesn't make much difference to us who plays.
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It's been a real good progression in the last eight or nine months for him. He knows that if he wants to play more football, this is his last chance to show that he's worthy. He knows he has to make the most of it.
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It's just a question of Mother Nature right now with all the modern medical help we can give to help Mother Nature along.
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It was certainly not an atypical Virginia game coming down to the end like that. It kinda reflected the last game that we played. I guess that is fitting.
good performance
It was a very good performance by our defense,
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They weren't a matter of bad reads. It was an accuracy situation. What we tried to emphasize to everybody at halftime was to remember that things aren't always going to be perfect and to forget about it.
calls continue effort
It'll continue to be as things have been. It's always been a collaborative effort here. Eventually, all the calls go through me.
adjust competition course game reaction
It'll be very interesting for us to see the game reaction of some of these players, not just to the competition . . . but how they're able to adjust to things during the course of the game.
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It's a good win for us, but it's important for us to remember that each week is its own week, and each game is its own game, ... We have another challenge coming up next week. If we're not successful with that, then all of a sudden this win will seem very hollow.
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It's a little early to tell anything there. I'm sure he'll be day-to-day.
bit early
It's a little bit early to tell anything there.
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The other thing that we had emphasized all week long was that it was everybody's job in this game to find a way to win. A lot of players had to step up individually and do that. Obviously the heart and the energy ? as well as the production ? that Marques provided us was just a tremendous punctuation point to the career that he's had at Virginia. He's been a special player for us in the things he's been able to do and how he's been able to energize this team.
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What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,