Western Michigan Coach Bill Cubit

Opening statement

“It's unbelievable; you just have to let it go. I can't describe the feelings we have right now.”

On whether or not Jones was down on the kick off return

“I have no idea.  I saw it, but it looked like he was getting tackled.  I was getting ready to get the defense out there.”

On taking the safety

“We were at the five (yard line), and they have a pretty good punt (return man).  We figured we'd take 20 more yards, and kick off instead of protecting against a block.  We punted it and I think the guy dropped it, and he went back and picked it up.”

How do you recover?

“Come back tomorrow and go to work.  The sun will come up tomorrow, we just have to go to work.”



Akron Coach J.D Brookhart
 
On the final play

“We put in our two punt returners, hoping we could get it out somewhere near the 50 and just throw it to the endzone. Obviously we didn't play the punt very well, it rolled and the advantage to that was it drew everybody in. And as that happened, Andre was able to pitch it when he was getting tackled. I didn't see the pitch all of a sudden I saw white shirts coming down the sideline and I went with it. It was amazing.”