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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Anytime you have change -- depending on what those changes are -- it creates certainly new blood, and change is part of our world. It's just the way it is. It's no different in the coaching profession -- change is part of the process.
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If they're going to have instant replay, they should have to let coaches challenge. Otherwise, you have a guy in the booth that nobody knows. He makes decisions on whether a play should be reviewed, and we get no explanation, and you use timeouts that you don't get back.
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I tried to convince them to come in here and fight their hearts out and play together and believe in each other. But I think any coach would do the same thing. So what I did was nothing. What they did is unforgettable.
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The other thing is that they promoted from within. So there are a lot of people who have been affiliated with this program, who have coached here and are coaching here, who are extremely capable. So we'll see what happens.
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I think it starts - we always start in the state of Michigan. And we did not recruit a large number of guys from this state this year. It already is apparent that next year will be a very good year in this state. We start here, but I think our coaches did a great job. I was in 16 states in 15 days in January, and so we were spread out, and yet I think we've got an outstanding class.
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We've looked at a lot of film of Charlie's teams at New England. We've talked to a number of people who have coached against him, done as much research as it's possible to do.
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I knew in my heart this team had tremendous motivation. They worked extremely hard going back to the way that season ended a year ago.
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The big problem we had in the second half was offensively, ... With the exception of one big play, we just couldn't get much going.
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The biggest question mark across the country about Michigan, ... is our defense.
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The biggest question mark about Michigan across the country, I'm sure, is our defense.
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They just did a good job of executing a good play. It was a good call. We felt like we were in a decent defense.
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I'm not going to talk about individual guys.
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I've interviewed every player on our team, and that's always part of the conversation. There's a lot of things that certainly should be motivating. I don't think there's anybody in this program that wants to go through that kind of season again. I think they'll do everything that they're asked to do to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
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It was obvious that was a violation of the rules.