WMU at Kent State Post-Game Quotes

Western Michigan Head Coach Bill Cubit
On the game's outcome:
“You have six turnovers and at least a half dozen dropped passes, you're not going to win any games like that.  That's the way it was.  The defense gave up three scores.  We go down there for another one and we just drop the ball and a fumble and they take it back.  Thats the whole story of the game, I mean, I never felt that we got stopped.  We just ran up and down, but just to have that many turnovers.  Especially with a big emphasis during the week and right before the game, we talked about it so much.  It just happens.”

On running back core:
“You just can't drop the ball, we can't fumble the ball.  Running backs should never fumble the ball like that.  Ones so crucial, that's the one that could give us a chance and another one where we just drop the ball and then they have good field position.  We dropped two in a row that were touchdowns, consecutively.  You know, the same thing.  We lost Jamie Wilson and some other guys had the step and we didn't have anybody.”

On defense:
“You have to bow up and you have to stop them.  That was the whole story.  We jumped ahead, we're moving the ball at will.  Then they go down there and they score.  Then we have a bad series and they score again.  Then we get another pick and they held.  They did a great job, just kicking field goals.  So we're only behind ten and we get a drive going and we fumble the ball and they take it back, eighty yards for a touchdown.  It's just inexcusable.”

Kent State Head Coach Darrell Hazell
Opening statement:
“It was a great win for us for a lot of reasons.  Our team showed a lot of poise and a lot of character.  We got ourselves down, but we managed to fight back and our defense was able to stop them when we needed them to.  I was proud of our guys and how they played.  These guys keep working day in and day out.”

On the game tying drive that ended with Josh Boyle's diving touchdown catch:
“The answer by the offense after they had gone down and scored was huge because it flipped the momentum again.  The defense got rolling again and got us a big turnover on their next possession.”

On the go ahead touchdown drive that ended with Dri Archer's 10 yard touchdown:
“That was a fast answer drive, that was a big drive for us because we needed a spark.”

On offense's struggles early in the game”
“We knew it was going to be hard to run the ball early in the game until they got a little tired, then we thought we could pop some long runs.  We knew we would have to be able to beat man to man coverage.”