Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Carr
Lloyd Henry Carr, Jr.is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Michigan from 1995 through the 2007 season. Under Carr, the Michigan Wolverines compiled a record of 122–40 and won or shared five Big Ten Conference titles. Carr's 1997 team was declared the national champion by the Associated Press. His record coaching against top ten-ranked opponents was 19–8. Carr was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth30 July 1945
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When you have an opportunity to go in front of the media, there's always a chance to make mistakes. It's part of the growing process, part of the college experience. He felt really badly. It's just one of those things that happen, and you move on.
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Year in and year out, on a consistent basis, the best teams in the country always have great defenses.
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We all understand the competitiveness of that conference and their success in competition with the Big Ten. I don't know anybody out there, as a coach, who doesn't have respect for the Mid-American Conference.
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There is nothing that can make you feel better after losing this game.
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We had a great drive and some things happened there at the end. I have to see it on film. I think our players deserve better.
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We thought if we get control of the game, Ohio State would have trouble playing from behind, but they played very well from behind. Nobody ever would have thought they would throw for that kind of yardage, but they changed the tempo of the game, they made it very hard for us to pressure the quarterback.
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We've worked hard on it, but the key to the Nebraska defense is up-front four. That'll be a real test for us.
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We don't make any excuses and never will, but we've been a very unlucky football team from an injury standpoint.
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With any change, there's great enthusiasm. It does create an opportunity for change, and new ideas, so I think it is going to be very good.
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We've played some very, very fine defensive fronts, and I think this is the best we've played. They lead the nation in sacks. I think that alone tells you the challenge we have.
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First and foremost, when you get off to a start like this after very high expectations that you have as a group of people, you have to maintain an attitude that you're not going to be distracted by all the things that go around you,
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It's one last opportunity to play and against an outstanding program. So we're excited to do that.
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It started last week. There's nothing you can do but play on.
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It's that attitude that has enabled him to fight back after injury after injury.