Brett Basanez
Brett Basanez
Brett Stephen Basanezis a former American football quarterback. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Northwestern...
against good happens pay
That's what happens when you don't play well against a good team, ... They make you pay for it.
change people program trying winning
When people think of Northwestern, they don't think of a traditional winning program here, ... We're trying to change that.
bringing kept pedal
When we play to our level, we can play like that. Wisconsin, they kept bringing it on every play. We had to keep the pedal down.
We let so much get away from us early. We didn't play well enough to win.
bowl came early haunt
We let so much get away from us early that it came back to haunt us. It's not any one thing. We just did not play well enough to win. And when you do that in a bowl game, you're not going to win.
great hit
We really hit it off. There are a lot of great quarterbacks in the (NCAA), so it was cool.
chances good needs points score
We always have to score more points than they do. We get just as many chances as they do so we have to make good on our chances and take our shots. If it (the score) comes down to 99-98, that's what it needs to be and we have to have 99. If it comes down to 3-2, we've got to have the three.
career far leadership learned needs offense point team
I think I've learned a lot in my career here. I'm kind of at a point now where I know what's it like. You come in and you kind of think you know, but now I know what this team needs and what this offense needs as far as leadership style.
I thought, 'OK, they scored pretty fast. Let's see if we can answer. But then they did it again.
risk
That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious.
behind chains played
I don't think we played well enough. It's not that we thought we were better than we were. We got behind the chains and made costly turnovers.
bad great played playing time
Joel played fantastic. He was playing great all week. We didn't have any bad snaps. It's the first time in a while.
needed score
We needed to score some points, but we just couldn't get it going.
defense needed offense played respond score
Our defense played great. They got a lot of turnovers and the offense needed to respond and score touchdowns.