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Monday Quotes and Notes

Filed Under Mississippi State Sports | Posted on October 23, 2006

Mondays best quotes and notes:

• Coach Croom on punting from the thirty: “I’m sure some people will second-guess me, but I really don’t care,” Croom said. “I did what I thought our football team could do at that particular time.”
• Henig on punting from the thirty: “I was a little shocked,” quarterback Michael Henig said. “I’m really not sure.”
• “We are hurt right now,” free safety Jeramie Johnson said. “What we’ve got to do is just learn from this and just do what we need to do earlier in the game so that we won’t have to worry about this.” The KEY is earlier in the game!
• “It’s the first time since I’ve been here that I’ve heard tears in our dressing room,” Croom said. “That tells me it’s important to our people. As long as it’s important to them and we keep adding talent to the program, everything I’ve thought that we can accomplish is still out there to be done.”
  
• “For the past few years, a Mississippi State football team would’ve gotten beat 50-7 out there,” Croom said. “They didn’t today. We got down 21-7, showed some guts and character on the road and didn’t give up.”
• “I just got tired of punting and kicking field goals.” - Georgia coach Mark Richt on why he called a pass play on fourth-and-1 in Bulldogs territory. Tight end Tripp Chandler made his first college catch to score a touchdown.
  

Notes:

• MSU’s offense has started 26 different players through eight games. It has not used the same starting lineup twice.
• Mississippi State couldn’t do much on the ground Saturday, rushing for just 64 yards. But it got offensive help from its passing game, which posted its third-highest output of the year with 234 yards, all from Henig.
• Georgia freshman quarterback Matthew Stafford threw three interceptions, two of them to Derek Pegues, and Georgia lost two fumbles. MSU had three turnovers.
• MSU gets ready to take on a Kentucky team that ranks 7th in the SEC in scoring offense and third in the league in pass offense.
• Despite the GA turnovers on Saturday MSU is still -2 in turnover margin.
• Kentucky is +7 in turnover margin.
• Kentucky is last in the league in rushing defense allowing 209.0 yards per game.
• Kentucky is last in the league in total defense allowing 462.4 yards per game.
• MSU is 11th in the league in red zone scoring (68%).