Fresno State vs. Hawai`i Postgame Quotes
10/25/2002 12:00:00 AM | Football
Oct. 25, 2002
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- Fresno State head coach Pat Hill
General thoughts on the game
"Obviously we are just not getting it done in the fourth quarter. We've lost three games in the fourth quarter. I really don't know the answer, to tell you the truth. Penalties were heavy tonight. We were a highly penalized team in key situations. That's very puzzling also."
"I felt for the most part we played very hard. But that doesn't make any difference. The bottom line in this profession is winning, and we just didn't get it done."
"We've got to learn how to win these games in the fourth quarter. We didn't step up and make plays when we needed to, and we didn't make plays on defense when we needed to. And we took ourselves out of field position with penalties. We had a lot of penalties tonight that really hurt us. Good teams don't do that, and right now we are not a good team. We just aren't doing the little things right right now. We didn't finish the job. We didn't get the job done."
- Hawai'i quarterback Timmy Chang
General thoughts on the win
"We talk about things to have when you are down, and one of them is courage. When you are down 21-9 in the fourth quarter, you really don't know what to do. You just try to put in a full effort, and maybe you can come up with a big win."
On the comeback victory
"We sucked it up. The linemen did a great job staying with the play longer than [Fresno State]. The receivers did a good job of getting open continuously. It was just an overall great effort."
- Hawai'i head coach June Jones
On coming back from 21-9 down
"Well, the biggest problem we had was the blocked punt, and that was a really bad deal. We did what we had to do to win the game. Timmy [Chang] made some plays in the fourth quarter, which you have to be able to do. Great quarterbacks make those kinds of plays, and he did it tonight."
On what the win means for the program
"This is a huge win for our program, because we haven't won a big game on the road. This was a big game for us. I think this kind of turns the corner for us, and shows we are headed in the right direction."
Other general thoughts
"We played good run defense tonight. We were able to stuff them. I thought overall we did some very good things."
