University of Tennessee Athletics
Postgame Quotes
October 09, 2004 | Football
No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs vs. No. 17 Tennessee Volunteers
October 9, 2004...Sanford Stadium
Tennessee Postgame Quotes
Head Coach Phillip Fulmer
"We are really, really happy right now. Our kids laid it on the line tonight. We are a good football team and this was a good old-fashioned SEC football game today. We were able to make the plays early in the game. Gerald Riggs stepped it up big today.
We've had some really great games with Georgia."
Jason Hall, Junior, Defensive End
"It was a tough game today, we played a whole 60 minutes. This is definitely the biggest game of the year for us. Coming into the game today, we expected to have a physical game, and that's what this contest was. We tried to keep David Greene out of rhythm today, and we tried to put pressure on him. Georgia's offense is a rhythm offense, so when you go against them, you try to get them out of rhythm."
Gerald Riggs, Jr., Junior Tailback
"I never doubted that we would not win. I have total confidence in my team. This is the University of Tennessee. There are not many times that we are not going to be in the ballgame. Georgia has a good defense. They are very fast and they play downhill. Today, when we ran the ball, we tried to find the defenders and make adjustments. The offensive line did a great job today. We were able to establish the run game early on, and they did a good job of opening up holes."
Georgia Postgame Quotes
Georgia Head Coach Mark Richt
"It's disappointing to lose more than anything else. Our performance wasn't stellar, but if you find a way to win that always makes it better. But we didn't finish it, and we didn't win and now we've got to find out where we went wrong. Penalties certainly had a lot to do with it and we need to work on that."
"I thought the fake punt was a real crucial turning point. That was my call and I never should have called that."
"I thought our defense came through big throughout most of the ballgame. They let them have some stuff early on. Our offense didn't get going until we got into a no-huddle two-minute type offense."
"We basically played Shockley in the first half where we've been playing him and he gave us a nice spark. David was our starter and we thought that was the way to go at the time."
"It's just a game of inches and for whatever reason it didn't go our way."
David Greene, Sr., Quarterback
"It was a weird game. I can't explain it. The first three quarters, I felt like a non-factor. We could not get anything going. None of the things that went right against LSU went our way today."
"We got beat (today) after we beat a good team (last Saturday). But like we always say, one game at a time. It is a long season. Going undefeated is rare. We just have to go out and get the next one."
(on completion percentage) "Completion percentage does not matter to me. There were some batted balls, some dropped and some out of bounds."
(on comparing last week to this week) "This was a completely different game. It was weird; we just could not get anything going. You are not going to win when you spend half the game in third and long."
Danny Ware, Fr., Tailback
"It is pretty tough. It puts a little bit of a damper on our dreams, but we just have to go out and play the way we can last week."
"I feel like we were the better team. We just made too many mistakes and hurt ourselves."
Reggie Brown, Sr., Split End
"At the end of the game, we moved the ball at will. I just don't know what happened the rest of the game. We just have to go back, look at our mistakes and iron everything out."
David Pollack, Sr., Defensive End
"They did some good things. They did play action well, and they ran the ball well. (Erik) Ainge did well."
(on injuries) "Injuries are part of the game. We just have to fight adversity and get through it. That is how football is."
"Talent is a coin toss in this league. You have to make plays. They made them and we didn't. We did not
execute as we should, but that's football. You have to make plays and not make mistakes. Now we just go
back, practice harder and do the best we can to win the rest of our games."
Fred Gibson, Sr., Flanker
"The SEC is tough. You never know. We have to come with a game plan every week and get it done. We came out and could not get it going. The offense came out and could not score. It is tough to reach the emotion of last week."
"It just feels bad. We had a great win last week. We were looking forward to today. This (loss) hurts. Penalties killed us. We would do something good, and penalities would take it away. That just really hurt us."
