Postgame Coches Quotes from Marshall Game

Oct. 22, 2007

Jeff Bower - Southern Miss Head Coach

"Good job from our football players. (Marshall's) 0-6 can be very misleading, but I think they have some talent on this football team. They played hard, they didn't play like an 0-6 team. They played with really good effort, and did some good things to slow us down - the running game looked easy at first, but then it looked tough. Turnovers were huge in the game we create four and take care of the ball and don't give up any."

"We had two major errors in the kicking game. Two blocked kicks that could have been costly."

"I was proud of our guys, I thought they did a good job, we played well enough to win. They made some plays on us on the football. Good job by our guys and a good win, it's a tough place to come up and play."

"I'm proud of our guys they got our offense up big time. We got a little stagnant and give them credit."

"The whole offensive football team showed a lot of poise."

On getting an early lead over Marshall:
"It's important that when playing a team that's struggling, and that's any coach in the country would want to get up fast."

Mark Snyder-Marshall Head Coach

"The kids played hard and I'm proud of them. Southern Miss made a couple more plays than we did."

"We tried being a little more aggressive, we tried being more conservative. It's about mindset. We just have to keep working on it."

On opportunities in first half:
"When you get in the redzone you have to score, and eventually we did. Credit them they're a good defense they tipped the ball."

On first quarter struggles:
"We're working on that, we need to continue to do that. As much as we're working on it and preaching about it, let's forget about it and just go play."

On players:
"We're playing tough the whole time, but not always playing smart at times, but still playing hard. This was a game of big plays that's what this was about. Southern Miss is a good football team and they made plays when they needed to be made and there were times when we didn't make them."

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