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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That's the way things go. We all suffer setbacks and disappointments. Whether your team falls behind at the half, or your season doesn't get started until the half, that's just the way it goes.
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I think that's fair to say. That has been the case from the outset, whether it's eligibility issues or training issues or whatever the case may be.
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He's doing a nice job. It sounds like an over-simplification, but people who know him will understand that he's just being Vic. He's doing well because he's Vic Hall. Whether it's academics or holding on field goals for the first time, or playing on the corner, he's got a real good sense of competition.
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He's going to get his hands on it. The big question is whether the ball is going to stay in his hands.
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It's really still pretty early, ... We're only at the halfway mark. At that stage, I think it's too early to get hyped up about whether you have a great team and it's a little premature to be running around like Chicken Little saying, 'The sky is falling.'
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We tried to emphasize with him and the team that things aren't going to go perfect,
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We try to be very thorough with it. We are very tuned in to those kind of silent circumstances that really can't be detected ... We do try to keep a closer eye on some of the bigger guys, especially during hotter days.
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We got more of what we wanted from him than we did from anybody else.
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We're very pleased about being able to really accomplish a lot of what we set to do. We had a very specific plan when we set out and tried to stay with our plan throughout. And we feel very positive about being on target in many areas.
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It would be nice to do; that's for sure,
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It was very pleasing to see. That's what a team's got to do. People understand their roles and their expectations . . . That's a credit to their resilience, and Ron Prince did a good job of getting them organized at halftime, as to what was going to go on, what we were going to call, so they were well-prepped. They can feel proud of what they did tonight.
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It was very pleasing to see, ... That's what a team's got to do. People understand their roles and their expectations . . . That's a credit to their resilience, and Ron Prince did a good job of getting them organized at halftime, as to what was going to go on, what we were going to call, so they were well-prepped. They can feel proud of what they did tonight.
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It was an excellent individual play by John,
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They all did pretty decently. I thought as an entity, the position did OK.