Boston College Athletics
Postgame Quotes
September 23, 2000 | Football
Sept. 23, 2000
Tom O'Brien, Head Coach
Overall
"I'm really happy with the victory today.... I think the week off helped us."
On the effort of Tim Hasselbeck
"Our offense played well. Tim had a great day throwing the ball. He had good protection."
On next week's game against Virginia Tech
"We're in the big leagues next week and we have to improve a lot."
On the fact that BC was penalized 11 times for 123 yards
"It's obvious that we had way too many penalties and they came at really inopportune times for us. A lot of them came from our offensive line where they shouldn't be."
On Dedrick Dewalt (6 receptions, 111yds)
"We know that we have to get him more and more into the offense. When we recruited him we hoped he would be a threat and could beat guys deep."
"We're two and one and we go on from here."
"We've got tougher competition coming ahead, so we can't get too big-headed about this."
"They were trying to play me in man coverage which surprised me, I had a lot of opportunities out there one on one on the flank, that's what they did they tried to play me one on one, and I did a good job of beating a corner in certain situations."
"I'm a year older, I know what to expect in a game, I know how to approach a game, I know how to prepare for a game, and my confidence has carried over from last year to this year. It's just a steady build."
"Tim Hasselbeck and I worked really hard this summer and in the offseason. Ever since I first came here its been Tim Hasselbeck and I have worked together we're starting to click and its been good right now."
"Take nothing away from Navy they played a great game today. But, we have much tougher competition coming up. Playing Virginia Tech they have a very good defense we have got to come out and just play hard-nosed football. That's basically what we got to do. We've got to play BC football and don't worry about anybody else."
Navy Post game Quotes
Charlie Weatherbie, head coach
On his team's performance
"I don't feel that we played very well at all. BC has a heck of a football team, there's no doubt about that. We never could get any pressure on Hasselbeck-they threw and caught the ball well. Of course we had the one interception in the end zone, but we couldn't get anything out of it. It seems like whenever we got anything going offensively, we had either a penalty, a turnover or a busted assignment."
On Boston College
"You have to play with 11 cylinders firing on both sides of the ball. We just have to regroup and bounce back. I'm not taking anything away from Boston College-BC has got a fine football team. I'm sure that they'll win a lot of football games, because they look like a bowl team to me."
On the red-zone offense
"We missed a lot, we'd get down there and not block the right people. That put us behind the eight ball, because we'd end up with second or third down and 10."
Ed Malinowski, quarterback
On his team's performance
"We came out on the first drive and executed. We played our kind of ball. We did really well all day, it's just that certain things led to bad situations."
On BC's performance
"It didn't seem like they adjusted to us very much. Whatever they did, we were ready for it because coach had us ready for just about everything that they did."
On the effects of a stalled drive
"Things happen, and you've got to try to bounce back and come back the next series and try to get it down there again. If we control the ball, good things are going to happen."
