University of Tennessee Athletics
TENNESSEE POSTGAME QUOTES
September 30, 2006 | Football
Sept. 30, 2006
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Tennessee Locker Room
Head Coach Phillip Fulmer
"I'm really proud of our football team. I think we really worked to get better during the course of the year. We've come out of these games with some improvement, and that's what we needed. We still have a way to go in some areas, but we'll find out who we have healthy tomorrow and obviously start getting ready for the Georgia Bulldogs."
"Our defense is still a work in progress as far as overcoming the loss of a couple key players. We spent a lot of time talking about stopping the run. We tackled well. It was really a good effort by our guys today."
"We had three significantly long drives; two for scores and one we left at the foot line. We talked about doing what good teams do. We're trying to be a good team."
On Memphis' defensive coaching change: "That's really hard. Everybody expected miracles. You still got 11 guys and you're going to put 11 on the field at some position. It was kind of like an opening season game. That's how we approached it. They were going to be somewhere on the field and we had a quarter or so to figure out where they were going to be."
Memphis Locker Room
Head Coach Tommy West
"I did a poor job of preparing our football team for this game today. I thought Tennessee played a great game and they have a very good team. Tennessee really handed it to us and they were the more physical team and better team. We did not help ourselves missing assignments but I still think we can be a good football team and I have to find a way to make us a good team and bring them along."
"I knew the defense could be on the field a lot today and they were and that is not a good combination. I knew and was prepared for that."
"Joe Doss was late for a meeting and he was suspended for half of the game. That is our rule."
"Not having Doss really did not affect us. That would be a crutch to say it did. To be honest not having Joe Doss had nothing to do with us losing. He played in the second half and we weren't much better."
"We felt we had to be a balanced team and an understatement would be that we struggled running the ball. We knew we would have to run the ball to have a chance."
