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BAYLOR QUOTES

Head Coach Jim Grobe

On missed chances:
"It's really tough and a good learning experience for us, I think. We've won a lot of games fourth quarter and played some of our best football in the fourth quarter, but I think when you have chances earlier in the game to make things happen and you don't then sometimes that catches you. And I give Texas a lot of credit, I thought they played great late we came up a little bit short but we certainly had our opportunities on both sides of the ball, offensively and defensively. We had opportunities to get off the field on defense and certainly had opportunities to score more points so I think it'll be a good lesson for our football team."

On Terence Williams not being in towards the end of the game:
"Shock was having problems with his hamstring and we wanted to keep both backs fresh. And we like JaMycal, it's not a deal that when we put him out there that we don't feel like he can get the job done. Well actually, I feel like speed-wise he can do some great things for us. Disappointed that he lost a football down in there, but obviously he tee'd up and played really good today."

On what held the team back:
"Well penalties don't help. I think first half really hurt us, the penalties really hurt us in the first half and that's just, you know... when you do that it takes you out of drives, it keeps their drives going, those type of things. I think we'll look back and feel like, you know at times we weren't very disciplined. But those are all learning experiences, that's how you get better. I like to get better after a win, but this is a loss that our games will come back at and say "hey, we didn't just make enough plays". And there are no excuses, we just didn't play well enough."

On the defense getting tired towards the end of the game:
"Yeah we went through a stretch where I just thought we played great and we laid a couple of big plays, big run, big pass and gave them good field position. That's another thing that hurt us a little bit today, I think we'll go back and look at some of the places we started drives were not real good and had a long way to go. So, a little combination of not being as sharp as we needed to be on both sides of the ball and penalties, especially first half."

On Texas' ability to run the ball D'Onta Foreman:
"Yeah, great player. What he does a great job of is he's a good inside runner, very physical inside but he's got pretty good foot-speed, he gets out on the perimeter and so you make a decision defensively, try to hunker down inside to stop the inside run. Did a really good job with our splits on the plays today and two or three times that we really sold out to get down inside, he bounced outside and had nice runs, really good football player. And a nice offensive line, nice job by them today."

On the status of Grayland Arnold:
"Well he was in the locker room after the game. A little groggy, but my understanding is that they didn't find anything bad in the x-rays and he should be fine."

On Seth Russell's big rushing game:
"We came into the game feeling like we needed Seth to run the football to be as could as we could be. So that was part of the game plan, to let him run the football. Did a really nice job, really nice job."

On the first quarter "track meet":
"What was unusual was that first two series for both teams, we just go right down the field and score and then both defenses started playing really good. So it took a little while for the defenses to warm up, but yeah I was a little nervous of those two first drives for Texas, they went right down the field and scored but then our defense started playing better, but it was just a good football game, great football game.

Senior QB Seth Russell

On how tough the loss is:
"Yeah, we didn't execute enough. We made a lot of mental mistakes and had too many penalties. In these tough games, when comes down to the wire, whoever has the most penalties normally loses the game and we definitely won that one tonight."

On if he thought the high-powered offense to start the game would continue throughout the game:
"Yeah, that's always the thought. You always want to jump out and score on the first drive, but I threw an interception on the second drive and that was a bad read on me and a great play on defense. Then we scored on the third drive and it kind of went stalemate from there. We always want to jump out early because it puts a lot of pressure on them, but they responded really well."

On if his frequent rushes were a part of the original game plan:
"Yeah, it was. We knew the quarterback run was going to hurt them, and it did, but it didn't hurt them enough. We were able to connect on a few balls downfield to put us in some long field positions, but for the most part we didn't execute. They executed on more plays than we did and they came out the victor."

On why the Baylor offense was unable to move the ball in the final 50 seconds of the game:
"I think it was just the way it turned out. We were trying to get big yardages on the run because we knew they were going to play really soft, and Malik [Jefferson] did a great job of just spying me and just making a play."

Senior LB Aiavion Edwards

"On what the team could have improved on:
"It's kind of hard to say. We put in a new package that was kind of like the old package that we had that had a lot of success. I think a few times we kind of killed ourselves and tried to make some adjustments and things, but I think we showed that it can be successful. We just need to continue to work at that and I think that's something we can definitely improve on, big time."

On Texas running back D'Onta Foreman's touchdown run in the first quarter:
"We were switching things up and the communication wasn't well. It was a misalignment type of deal and it shouldn't have happened. I have to do a better job of getting the guys lined up.

On stopping Texas' two-point conversion in the fourth quarter:
"It was big, but they came back and kicked the field goal."

Senior CB Ryan Reid

On why the team didn't deliver in the fourth quarter:
"I don't think we're going to stop trying to be a good fourth quarter team. Really, we just have to learn from it. We practice to be perfect. Practicing to be perfect makes us a great defense. We're just going to suck it up and keep trying to be that good fourth quarter defense."

On how he feels the younger players will respond to the team's first loss:
"For me, personally, I can't let it daunt on me. I just can't let it daunt on me. I have to keep my good personality only because I can show the young guys that you can move on from it. I just told Jameson [Houston] not too long ago that the same stuff happened to me a couple years ago. You just have to grow from it and go into practice next week and throughout the season and show Coach [Phil] Bennett that it's not going to happen again. You put your best effort into every play."

TEXAS QUOTES

Head Coach Charlie Strong

Opening statement:
"I'm just so proud of this football team, and I just told them a while ago, it's just amazing what we've been battling here just the last three or four weeks and what they've been able to overcome, just all the noise in the system and everything just being so negative, and I'll tell you, this is a team that is going to continue to grow each and every week. You just don't know. It's going to be a game by game; it's just the youth of the football team. But to watch them go out tonight and just battle, we fall behind, play very well there in the first half, give up the score right there before halftime, then we come back out in the second half, and the defense made just two key stops there where they just held them to field goals and then that just gave us a chance there. Even on the last play there, we were just trying to get the ball lined up because Domingue wanted it on the right hash so we could just go and kick it through. But for them to just battle and just continue to fight, you could just tell the grit within this team, it's no quit. You look at the games that we did lose, and it's just -- you just watch how they just continue to fight through it. But I am, I'm so proud of this team, and told them to enjoy this evening. They really deserve it. But we know we have a tough test next week, but tonight was our night, and it's just special."

On if they control their own destiny:
"You know, when you talk about the noise in the system and just -- I know this: I have a really good team, and I have a special team, and I have a team that I really care about, and a team that really cares about me, and it's not a program that's in disarray, which many of you think. It's not a program that is going backwards. It's a program that's headed forward, and it's a program that is going to be a special -- it's going to be special one of these days when you watch this program really take off. But as those guys continue to battle the noise, it helps no one. It's just an embarrassment to everyone, and I just hate it for them, when you're talking about 17, 18 year olds, and the way they feel about their coach and the way their coach feels about them, and for them to have to just continue to hear it."

On wins not coming easy:
"When you have a young team, sometimes it isn't going to be easy. I just knew this was going to be a 60- minute battle. We walk in there at halftime, we're up two, and I told them, I said, guys, it's going to take 30 minutes and it's going to take every bit of it, and at the end, someone is going to end up driving the football, and I hope that's us, where we can take the ball and go get a score.

Junior TE Andrew Beck

On his play tonight:
"It's exciting. Every time we run it in practice, my eyes get big. I'm just excited I got called in the game. That's always a plus. It still hasn't set in yet."

On carrying the momentum forward:
"We haven't been great on the road so far, but we've matured as team as the season has rolled on that I think guys understand now that we have to be able to carry this onto the road. We've been pretty good at home, but obviously a road win is due for us.

Junior WR Armanti Foreman

On how special today was:
"It was extremely special. I knew I had to come out here and make big plays. Last week, I just kept replaying that moment in my head. I just told myself that when I get that opportunity to make that big play again, I've got to make it. I feel like I did that tonight."

On what D'Onta said to him today after the fumble:
"He just told me, "Forget about it. He fumbled the ball too. Just go out there and make up for it." He just carries me to go onto the next play."

Junior RB D'Onta Foreman

On how it feels to beat Baylor:
"Unreal. It's unreal. I'm so proud of those guys in that locker room, our defense, O-line, quarterback, receivers, you know. I'm so proud of those guys, I can't even explain how proud of the team I am."

On winning even with recent negativity surrounding Coach Strong:
"We just always believe, we never let outside noise interrupt what we want to do and I think that we wanted to accomplish the season, and things haven't been going our way for the most part and we just have to keep fighting and today we did and I always say at the game, we have to play four quarters of football and tonight I feel like we did that."