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New Mexico Football vs. BYU Postgame Quotes

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Sept. 30, 2007

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New Mexico Head Coach Rocky Long
“I think the players played extremely hard, but we turned the ball over too much. I thought the defense played fairly well, but we got beat a few times in man-to-man coverage. I think we got decent pressure on the quarterback tonight and the secondary played well.”

“I told [our players] that we turned the ball over way too many times to expect a win. I appreciated their effort, we played hard, but BYU is no better football team than we are. Make no mistake, they deserved to win the game, but they’re no better football team than we are.”

BYU Head Coach Bronco Mendenhall
“I give New Mexico a ton of credit. Coach Long had his team very well prepared, getting after us defensively. They gave our offensive line the max, everything they could handle. The bottom line to me is we played on the road against a conference team and found a way to make enough plays to win the game.”

“The Lobos are a team that has a lot of heart. They are well coached. They don’t quit, and they are tough. That makes it more significant to win here and credit goes to their staff.”

“Turnovers played a huge part in the nature of the game and our win. You take the turnovers away and the Lobos easily could have won the football game.”

New Mexico Junior RB Rodney Ferguson
“We have a bye week coming up. We’re going to use this loss as motivation. Working hard is going to be very important this week. We’ve got to come back for the next game (at Wyoming) at play even harder. There’s a whole bunch of the schedule left to play.”

New Mexico Senior DE Michael Tuohy
“Defensively, we were able to get a lot of pressure. We kept improving as the game went on, getting pressure on the quarterback. We were able to get a couple of turnovers and we played hard, but we could’ve played a lot more assignment sound.”