University of North Carolina Athletics
Post-Game Player Quotes
September 30, 2000 | Football
Sept. 30, 2000
Ronald Curry: "We just couldn't get it done when we needed to. I feel like we could have played a better game. People played hard, but we weren't consistent.
"It's football, the unexpected happens. You never know what's going to go on.
"I'm used to taking shots. Some of it's my fault, some of it is others, but it's football. I expect to get hit."
Brandon Spoon: "After a loss, there's a bad taste in everyone's mouths. Sometimes in those situations, people can point fingers. But, we're a very mature team. We've been through a lot of adversity.
"We're going to go out for the next two weeks and prepare for N.C. State and regroup. We'll learn from what we did wrong and go out and play better.
"Georgia Tech is a great team. but I don't think we helped ourselves at all in this game. Give credit to Georgia Tech, they did a great job."
Julius Peppers: "We didn't play well at all today. We've got to get better, got to keep improving. They were the better team today, that's what it came down to.
"We never gave up, but the way we played today, we didn't give ourselves a chance to win the game".
Alge Crumpler: "We've got big play weapons all over the field, but we need to put things together offensively. We can't win on that big play all the time. We've got to move the ball, we've got to drive it.
"We didn't play special teams well at all. We got ourselves in a mess in the second half.
"It was hit or miss. We didn't play well the whole ballgame. We didn't knock them off the line of scrimmage.
"We made too many mistakes up front to get the job done."
Kory Bailey: "I felt a sharp pain, then I just tried to keep my feet and get into the end zone.
"I think this loss is going to leave us hungrier, because it's going to leave a bad taste in our mouths.
"It's one thing to know that you got beat putting everything that you had out there and played as well as you could, but we feel like there were a lot of things we could have done a lot better.
"We made a lot of mistakes.
"At times we (the offense) made some good things happen, but we have to be more consistent."
Blake Ferguson: "It was a good snap, I thought I got a good punt off until they blocked it.
"The (bobbled) snap was a perfect snap. It was my fault, bad fundamentals."
