Willie Reid
Willie Reid
confidence couple dropped games level lost
We lost a couple of games and I think our confidence level dropped a little bit.
against best coach coaches football last note send winning
These are the two best football coaches ever. This could be their last meeting. If it is, we want to send coach Bowden out on a winning note against coach Paterno.
shut
We had to shut up all our critics.
accomplish feeling
I think I can accomplish big things this year. I'm feeling good.
gain gave momentum third
I don't think of it as the one play that salvaged our season. I think it just gave us a little kick-start to gain some momentum going into that third quarter.
classic game happiness happy obviously
Obviously it didn't come out the way I wanted it to. But I'm just happy to be a part of a classic game like this.
against game good losing people point remember season small start streak tech virginia
People won't remember the small little losing streak that we had. They wouldn't think that the game we had against Virginia Tech was a fluke. I think it would put an exclamation point on the whole season and be a good way to start the new one.
chance gave nobody
Nobody gave us a chance that night. Nobody gave us a chance in this one.
breaking chance felt good great guys inside job man return
I felt like I had a good chance to breaking it. The guys on the inside did a good job of walling their man and I just had a kicker to beat. It was a great job by our punt return this year.
loss tough
This was a real tough loss to swallow.
either gone loss tough
It's a tough loss to take that could have gone either way with a kick. But you can't put it on one guy.
next performance tempo three
It was big play. It was part of a game-changing performance. Tempo started changing, we started going and it was one thing after another -- like 'bam, bam, bam' and the next thing you know we're up by three touchdowns.
loss penalties tough
It was a real tough loss to swallow, but you can't put it on one guy. We had a lot of penalties and mistakes.
classic coaches game great happy tough
It's a real tough loss. You can't put it on one guy. It was a classic game between two great coaches and I'm happy to have been a part of it.