Bobby Johnson
Bobby Johnson
Robert Alan Johnsonis a retired American football coach and former player. He was most recently the head football coach at Vanderbilt University, a position he held from the 2002 season until his retirement in 2010. In December 2001, Johnson became the Commodores' head coach, after leading Furman University to the NCAA Division I-AA national championship game. He coached the Paladins between 1994 and 2001, leading the team to a 60–36 overall record during his eight years. Prior to his hiring...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth8 February 1951
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I'm proud of the way they've come through and carried that stuff off the practice field and onto the playing field,
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I'm not saying we win the game if we catch some of those balls, but those plays prevent you from having a chance to win.
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I'm going to work as hard as I can, our staff is going to work as hard as they can, ... We'll take suggestions. The people who call you idiots and all that stuff, that's not going to make me change anything. They can do that all they want because it's not going to affect the way we go about doing our jobs.
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I'm not coaching and trying to win to keep my job, ... I coach for my players and my coaches and for the fans to have success. Someone is going to have success at Vanderbilt. I hope it's me and this staff. This staff has worked extremely hard. But if it's not, I don't coach out of fear of losing my job.
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I'm not looking at the schedule. I'm looking at Richmond. I don't even know. Do we have a schedule?
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I'm disappointed because I felt like we were going to have a good chance to go for two and be successful and try to win the football game, and we didn't get that opportunity,
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I'm tired of talking about what might have been. We've got to seize those moments or potential moments and play as well as we can. If we play as well as we can and Georgia still beats us, you can live with that. When you drop balls and don't do the things you're capable of doing, that's what is frustrating.
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I'm tired of talking about what might have been,
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I want to go to a bowl. They want to go to a bowl. They can do the math. But we're not saying we just want to win two out of the four. We want to win all four of them. You start with your next game, which is the South Carolina game, so that's the game we're going to try to win first.
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It's been kind of a normal injury pattern,
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It will indeed be a great challenge to our football team, but it's also a tremendous national platform for our players and program.
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They were running the ball down our throat, ... But somehow we found a way to win.
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we tried to make sure our practices ended in a positive, quick mode.
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We were ready to kick, and they had their regular return team on the field, ... They were allowed to substitute their whole team before we were allowed to kick. That's why I was upset.