SU vs. Boston College - Boston College Quotes
Post Game Quotes/Syracuse vs. BC
BC Coach Tom O'Brien:
"We were a half step behind all day and in football that makes all the difference."
(Regarding the ACC announcement this week having any effect on the game)
"We were here to play football, and Syracuse beat us. We were just off a bit."
"We were able to account for Reyes, but most defenses don't account for the quarterback. Anderson is a good and powerful runner. He hurt us two years ago here."
"It's obvious that they did a much better job against the run than they did last week, and they did do a couple of new things today. In the fourth quarter, we never were able to get the ball back and we couldn't stop them."
"It will be good to go home. I don't think we need any more games on the road. But they treated us tremendously here. It's a class place run by some stand-up guys in Jake and Paul."
"Their blitzes caught us off guard a bit before we could make some adjustments in the third quarter, but then it got out of hand."
BC Quarterback Quinton Porter:
"They got after us right away and we couldn't do anything. We just weren't ready to play. We would make something good happen and then miss by a little bit and it cost us. It's like coach says, if you miss by a little bit, you may as well miss by a lot because either way it's going to be a bad result."
(On whether the team's travel had an effect on the outcome):
"It's hard to say. Everything happened on the field. When you're on the field, you're playing football. We weren't thinking about anything like that. It wasn't anything conscious."
"Their D-line got after us all game long. Give them credit because we have a real good O-line. They stuffed our run game and got after us in the passing game."
Senior offensive guard Augie Hoffmann on whether the team's travel affected the game's outcome):
"That's no excuse. That's part of the game, things happen. We have to be ready to play. That's no excuse for what happened today."
"I don't know if we got pushed around. We got out of our game a little bit. We got back on track as the game went on. We've got to get more focused and get ready to play next week."
"They were moving their line around a little bit. They brought in some backers here and there. They play that eight man front, safeties coming down and like I said they got a couple more line movements and some backer movement and that's their game."
"We had to be able to run the football and pass the football, so that's all we talked about. We were off schedule a lot with stupid penalties."
Senior running back Derrick Knight:
"I think in the first quarter they just came out and they were blitzkrieging us. They were coming out, blitzing, sending blocks, giving us all kinds of different looks. They were throwing all kinds of things at us. That's no surprise to us and we have to adjust to that. They were just playing a step faster than we were and when you do that, you can't win."
