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TENNESSEE HEAD COACH Derek Dooley
Opening statement:
"Well real bad ending to a real bad season. It's hard to say much more than that, our biggest fears were realized. We were miserable in the first half on offense and had a chance in the second half but just couldn't execute. Give Kentucky a lot of credit. They played a lot more inspired football than we did. Now we have to begin our climb up because I did believe we were going to hit a place that wasn't good. We were headed in this direction all along and just couldn't fight our way out of it. Real disappointing but we're going to have to learn from it and begin our climb in the offseason when we get back."
On not making a bowl game
"It's very disappointing; something that shouldn't happen at Tennessee and hopefully it's something that won't happen again soon."
On Kentucky seeming to play more inspired
"I think our execution was just so poor. That's probably a better way of saying it. Our quarterback really struggled in the first half especially. Lethargic, he was sick all week. We thought he'd be a little better. He struggled so we were going to give him one more quarter in the third and he made a couple plays so we decided to stick with him but we just couldn't execute it."
On the final drive
"I thought we would be able to make enough plays to get it down there and win the game but it wasn't our day."
On the Kentucky quarterback situation
"We thought they might come out in a wildcat but didn't know it was going to be the whole game so we had to sit there and basically play wing-T football. We had two drives that we probably shouldn't have given up. They had 217 yards on offense, we were 4-of-15 on third down, and we only had 61 rushing yards. We're just not very good and I've been saying that all year so I don't really know what to say."
On Tennessee's defensive performance
"Yeah they did good, but they had a receiver at quarterback and ran it every time. We missed a lot of tackles. We fumbled the ball and they went 80 yards on a drive. On a quarterback boot one time our guy was right there and ran back in coverage, I don't know why. They had a sweep on third and 15 and we had a guy right there miss a tackle. We played like a team that is not very good and we're not. That's what we are."
On the end of the Tennessee win streak against Kentucky
"Certainly you don't want it on your watch but it happened and there's not much we can do about it now except try to start another one."
TENNESSEE FRESHMAN SAFETY Brian Randolph
On UK wide receiver Matt Roark playing quarterback
"We game planned a little bit for it. We knew he was a high school quarterback. When we saw him warm up, we weren't too surprised."
On the Coach Dooley saying that Kentucky was more inspired than their team
"They had nothing to lose. I think we came out and we were inspired also."
On if the team believed they could make a comeback during the fourth quarter
"We all had confidence in our offense and we thought they were going to put on some points and then it was pretty surprising at the end."
TENNESSEE JUNIOR SAFETY Prentiss Waggner
On if the defense provided a breakthrough in the game
"I wouldn't necessarily call it a breakthrough; I just call it doing our job. We knew once we did our job, we could give our offense as many chances as they could to get the ball in the end zone."
On how it felt to not be able to stop Kentucky even though they only had six passes
"It was really frustrating. Throughout the whole game we were just looking to get the ball to the offense as many times as we could."
On having to end the season on a loss to Kentucky
"It was really down in the locker room as expected after a big loss like that. We couldn't get the seniors out on a good note so that's the main thing we are disappointed about."
Opening statement:
"Well real bad ending to a real bad season. It's hard to say much more than that, our biggest fears were realized. We were miserable in the first half on offense and had a chance in the second half but just couldn't execute. Give Kentucky a lot of credit. They played a lot more inspired football than we did. Now we have to begin our climb up because I did believe we were going to hit a place that wasn't good. We were headed in this direction all along and just couldn't fight our way out of it. Real disappointing but we're going to have to learn from it and begin our climb in the offseason when we get back."
On not making a bowl game
"It's very disappointing; something that shouldn't happen at Tennessee and hopefully it's something that won't happen again soon."
On Kentucky seeming to play more inspired
"I think our execution was just so poor. That's probably a better way of saying it. Our quarterback really struggled in the first half especially. Lethargic, he was sick all week. We thought he'd be a little better. He struggled so we were going to give him one more quarter in the third and he made a couple plays so we decided to stick with him but we just couldn't execute it."
On the final drive
"I thought we would be able to make enough plays to get it down there and win the game but it wasn't our day."
On the Kentucky quarterback situation
"We thought they might come out in a wildcat but didn't know it was going to be the whole game so we had to sit there and basically play wing-T football. We had two drives that we probably shouldn't have given up. They had 217 yards on offense, we were 4-of-15 on third down, and we only had 61 rushing yards. We're just not very good and I've been saying that all year so I don't really know what to say."
On Tennessee's defensive performance
"Yeah they did good, but they had a receiver at quarterback and ran it every time. We missed a lot of tackles. We fumbled the ball and they went 80 yards on a drive. On a quarterback boot one time our guy was right there and ran back in coverage, I don't know why. They had a sweep on third and 15 and we had a guy right there miss a tackle. We played like a team that is not very good and we're not. That's what we are."
On the end of the Tennessee win streak against Kentucky
"Certainly you don't want it on your watch but it happened and there's not much we can do about it now except try to start another one."
TENNESSEE FRESHMAN SAFETY Brian Randolph
On UK wide receiver Matt Roark playing quarterback
"We game planned a little bit for it. We knew he was a high school quarterback. When we saw him warm up, we weren't too surprised."
On the Coach Dooley saying that Kentucky was more inspired than their team
"They had nothing to lose. I think we came out and we were inspired also."
On if the team believed they could make a comeback during the fourth quarter
"We all had confidence in our offense and we thought they were going to put on some points and then it was pretty surprising at the end."
TENNESSEE JUNIOR SAFETY Prentiss Waggner
On if the defense provided a breakthrough in the game
"I wouldn't necessarily call it a breakthrough; I just call it doing our job. We knew once we did our job, we could give our offense as many chances as they could to get the ball in the end zone."
On how it felt to not be able to stop Kentucky even though they only had six passes
"It was really frustrating. Throughout the whole game we were just looking to get the ball to the offense as many times as we could."
On having to end the season on a loss to Kentucky
"It was really down in the locker room as expected after a big loss like that. We couldn't get the seniors out on a good note so that's the main thing we are disappointed about."
