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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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,
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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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In games like this, if your guy makes a play, you win. If their guy makes a play, they win. You've got to step up and make those type of plays. That fell into the category of finding a way to win.
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It's one of those game-saving plays. If you're going to win games like this, you're guy make the play, you win; their guy makes the play, they win. You just have to step up and make those kind of plays.
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He really stepped up during playoff time. Good teams have a lot of players that step up at that particular time. And that's as much a characteristic as size and speed is the ability to step up at those moments.
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There are a number of offices that have interest in the circumstance. Look, I want to make perfectly clear: I'm not condoning or justifying any action, other than to say that the thing has to be viewed relative to other circumstances that did not receive national television exposure.
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There are a number of offices that have an interest in the circumstances with whom we've had conversations.
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When you have to make a game plan based on 'will he or won't he,' or 'when will we know,' that's just another thing to add to your list of concerns. ... The list of things that concern me on an ongoing basis is getting quite long.
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When you play at home, it's loud, too. You have to deal with noise at each particular place.
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There are a few more spots that aren't quite as apparent as the one on my forehead.
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When you know the player is not going to be there, you make alternate plans and go on,
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The only statistic we look at on defense is points allowed, and on defense we allowed 12 points. That's a pretty darn good night.
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Whenever George has something to say, we're very interested in it. Because he's the only coach around here who's going to be in the Hall of Fame. So, why wouldn't we listen to him?
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This year, they're really kind of all the same, ... They're all kind of first-time players there.