Nov. 12, 2011
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SDSU-Colorado State Postgame Quotes in PDF Format
San Diego State Head Coach Rocky Long
On the win: "We are happy every time we win. We had some chances to score and they did a nice job. Right at the end of the first half I thought we were going to score a touchdown and make things hard on them. They did a good job on defense to stop us and then we missed a field goal. They went into halftime with the momentum. In the second half I thought it was a back-and-forth game and when you have a back-and-forth game it is always going to be close."
On the wind: "Snow and rain have no effect whatsoever on a football game. Wind has a dramatic effect on a football game. If you always have the wind at your back, you have the opportunity to have some real success with the wind, but it changed about every five minutes. It was in your face one minute and at your back the next."
On the play of quarterback Ryan Lindley: "He is an excellent quarterback and I think he is going to be in the NFL. His leadership qualities on our team are as important as his ability as a quarterback. He deserves the record (all-time Mountain West passing leader). He probably would've thrown for another 100-and-something yards if we didn't drop any passes."
On the play of kicker Abelardo Perez: "The one he made won us the game. It would've been easier to win the game if he would've made the other two but he didn't. He made the one that counted, the one that helped us win the game."
On the play of the defense: "I thought giving up those two long runs was not good enough. You give up one every once on a while but we gave up two of them. He (Chris Nwoke) did a great job. He broke some tackles. He ran through us, over us, and made yardage. I thought the defense came up big time. It came up big time at the end. It came up big with two turnovers when they were in scoring position. Overall the defense played really well."
San Diego State Quarterback Ryan Lindley
On whether he feels like he survived this one: "We got through it. A win is a win. It was a team win, though. Guys had to step up, out of it all. We did a good job running the ball in the fourth quarter, and we did what it took to win."
On the wind: "It was pretty gusty. It was blowing a little bit as you can see, but it looked like a dust devil of trash. You kind of forgot about it on the field. You're playing and not much else is going on and you are just focused on what you need to do."
On the early dropped passes: "It's all focus. I mean, nobody's perfect. Everybody makes mistakes. You have got to tell them when it's early like that, `I'm coming back to you.' I'm not going to not throw to somebody because they dropped the ball."
On the morale going down when the running backs went down: "I think the guys were good. Like I said, this is a team and we're a team that's going to fight it out."
On being bowl-eligible: "It feels great. It's great to have a team win like this and the defense came in and just stuck those guys and gave us a `W.'"
San Diego State Linebacker Miles Burris
On the windy conditions: "It was a different setting and I'm sure the people in the crowd were a lot colder than we were. It was still pretty cold."
On the atmosphere: "The atmosphere was good for Colorado State; it was just tough for us. It seemed defense played well and the team did basically well overall. It was mental breakdowns."
On his second-quarter fumble recovery: "Yeah, I just kind of starting pursuing and I can't ever give up on a play. I saw the ball come loose and I dropped on it."
San Diego State Tight End Gavin Escobar
On playing in the wind and the cold: "The cold was not a really big factor; the wind I think did play a little bit of a factor. We each had to focus a little more."
On CSU's defense: "They gave us some different looks that we hadn't seen. We made some halftime adjustments."
On Colorado State: "They played well. All credit to them. We didn't come out as fast as we should've, but you know, a win's a win and we're happy with it."
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