Nov. 29, 2008
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BAYLOR HEAD COACH Art Briles
On the game...
"There's really nothing to say other than I am proud of the way our players played. I thought they played with a lot of passion and confidence. They played hard for each other. I'm extremely disappointed that we didn't come out with the victory. Tech's got a good football team. There is a reason they are 11-1 and No. 7 in the nation."
On Texas Tech's turnaround...
"You can't continually stop them. Name me someone that has in the last 55 ball games, maybe one or two games. What you got to do is keep punching back because they are going to get some punches in. We had a couple unfortunate things that happened to us in the end and it didn't happen."
On Baylor's defense...
"They played outstanding. I'm proud of the way the offense played. I think we scored the first four times we had the football. We just didn't many possessions after the first half. I'm proud of the way the whole team played."
On outcome of the game...
"I thought it was a clean, hard fought, really good college football game with two really good teams on the field. We were proud to be in it, proud to fight for it. It would have been really good win for our players, that's the only thing that upsets me."
BAYLOR RUNNING BACK Jay Finley
On being able to run the ball effectively...
"It was the big guys up front. They had to do their job and we win. We started off good." On what changed in the 2nd half "They started twisting a little more, moving around more. They moved a lot faster than we did. They did a good job the second half."
On quarterback Robert Griffin keeping team in the game...
"He's only a freshman this year. He is only going to get better and stronger. He's going to make the big plays. The Big 12 and the nation better watch out for him and this team next year."
On defending both Griffin and Finley...
"Their defense had to make a choice. They couldn't defend both of us. At first they were playing off Rob(Griffin) and so it opened up for me more. The second half, they started stunting more and that hurt what I was doing and what Rob(Griffin) was doing."
BAYLOR DEFENSIVE TACKLER Vincent Rhodes
On defensive game plan...
"We apply a lot of pressure. As anyone knows, if you let Graham (Harrell) sit back there all day and look at everything, he can make anything out of nothing. So that and turnovers were a must for us this weekend. I think we came out today, played hard and conquered a lot of our goals."
On a confidence level coming into the game...
"We had a bye week last week and even last week, we concentrated a lot on things that would happen this week because we're not a bad defense, we're not a bad team. So it was really a good thing for us to come out here with a lot of confidence and believe in ourselves that we can come out and do a lot of things right."
On the fumble recovery caused by Leon Freeman...
"It was incredible. A lot of the props go to Leon (Freeman). He came around the end so fast and the ball just kind of fell in my lap. I didn't know whether it was an incomplete pass or fumble so I just jumped on it as fast as I could."
BAYLOR LINEBACKER Joe Pawelek
On his reaction to the game and how it mirrors the rest of the season...
"What was it a touchdown? We're right there in the game. There is no question about the effort of the guys on the team, on the way we're fighting, the way we're playing and the way we're believing in what is going on."
On team's intensity and game plan...
"I felt like we were pretty intense throughout the whole game. We caught a couple of bad breaks with penalties. If we wouldn't have had those penalties on that long drive, the turnovers would've been to three. We came in here trying to make them throw the ball and stop the running game and create turnovers."
