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Postgame Quotes - NC State
November 24, 2018 | Football
NC State 34, North Carolina 28 ● November 24, 2018
Postgame Quotes
North Carolina Head Coach Larry Fedora
Opening Statement
"I am proud of this football team for the effort they gave today. They gave a lot of effort, they fought, they prepared themselves this week and we just didn't make enough plays to win a football game and we left a lot of points out there on the field today."
On coming up short again
"There were a lot of opportunities before [the drive with eight minutes left]. We had opportunities in the first half to win the football game right then and put the game away and we failed to do it. It is frustrating for everybody in that locker room. They are the ones working their butt off every day, they are buying in every day and I have got to find a way to get over that hump."
On freshman QB Cade Fortin's performance
"Cade did a nice job for a true freshman. I thought he threw the ball around well. He took care of the ball. He took some hits out there today. For the most part he put the ball where it should go."
On the conclusion of the season
"I am not happy by any means. I am hurting just like every one of those players down there. They just left it all out on the field and came up short again. Everybody down there, every coach, everybody that is involved in this program is hurting."
On offense getting going in the second half
"We just made routine plays. We missed so many in the first half; we didn't really do anything differently. Everything that we called was open in the first half, all we had to do was catch the football, just throw it and catch it."
On being in a position to win
"I told them it is my responsibility to put them in a position to win. I got to find a way to do a better job of that. We got to put the right guys on the field at the right time to make the plays that are presented before them."
On freshman RB Javonte Williams
"It was the same things we've seen from him all year. It is unfortunate the other guys went down. But Javonte stepped in. He ran hard, he is a great kid, runs with a low pad level. He is going to get every ounce out of everything. He is violent when he runs, he finishes his runs. You very seldom see him go backwards. He is going to get something out of it."
UNC Player Quotes
Cade Fortin, Fr. QB
On the difference between the first and second halves
"I think we came out in the second half and started making plays. The O-line did a great job all game. The receivers did a great job all game. But in the second half we had a little juice. The coaches and players got us a little hyped up in the locker room. We were just ready to go out in the second half."
On being more comfortable in the second half
"I think I did settle in. At first, I was a little nervous, obviously. I think once I settled in, I was a lot more comfortable. My guys were giving me all the opportunities that I had, I just have to connect on some plays."
On the feeling of the season being over
"These seniors, they put everything on the line. Every day, everyone is working. There is no sense of anyone wanting to quit or anything like that. Everybody comes up to work every single day. There was no thought of, 'this is our record, we shouldn't play hard.' Everybody comes motivated to play."
Javonte Williams, Fr. RB
On his performance
"I think I did pretty good. There are things I could've done better in both running the ball and pass blocking. Being that they have like the No. 8 defense in the nation I think I did pretty good."
On increased confidence
"I feel like I got a lot more confident. I feel like the game is slowing down. Coach G [RB coach Robert Gillespie] trusts me more now. I think I am doing a good job and everything is falling into place."
On recapping the season
"It was a good season that taught us a lot. It didn't turn out the way we wanted to. I think we learned a lot this season that is going to help us next season. The biggest regret I have is not winning for players like Scoop [Malik Carney], Cole [Holcomb], J.K. [Britt] and all those seniors. They really work hard and instill in us what it really means to work hard and be a good player. I just hate that we lost the last game and didn't have the season that we should've."
Anthony Ratliff-Williams, Jr. WR
On takeaways from the season
"Losing is a lesson. It is not something that you can look so down upon just because everybody else does. You learn from it and you build on it and you let it be the fuel to your fire for things to come. I don't really look at this season at what could've been or in a negative light. I see the positivity. I am just ready to get back to work and I am excited for the future."
On watching Cade Fortin throughout the year
"It was just seeing him grow. He's no longer a freshman after the reps he gets and the experience he has now. He has that under his belt now in order to gain that confidence going into next season. Rather than not being so confident, he is the guy that's ahead, has that confidence and he can build on that and his repertoire is going to be stacked."
J.K. Britt, Sr. S
On turning point in the game
"The second half, of course you come out in the first half you are going to run your script. Run the plays you have scripted, about 20 plays. Then you're going to adjust based on that and then you come in out of halftime, they make adjustments on the coverages and defense that we are playing and we do the same thing. That was the turning point in the game, just making the right adjustments at halftime by both coaching staffs and both teams."
On NC State's offensive performance
"They just made some plays and that is just football. They are going to make some plays and they made them at the right time."
On describing season in one word
"Frustration … because we've come so close in so many games. I mean we've had two games this year where we went into overtime. We lost games on the last play of the game, last drive, so just frustration being this close every time and just not being able to capitalize."
Cole Holcomb, Sr. LB
On the season being over
"I've been sitting in the locker room honestly. I was just sitting there soaking it up. It is pretty crazy."
On game-ending feeling
"It stinks. This is a game you put everything into and to have it like that it hurts. I mean all year the guys have been looking at me and as one of those guys you can't show that in front of those guys. That's kind of how it's been."
On takeaways from season
"I don't know. It's been a lot of things. I am going to take a lot away from it. I learned a lot. It wasn't what I wanted, but I was out there with my best friends having a good time and enjoyed it."
On character of team
"Everybody, I mean, all the players, those guys, it's just how they've been raised, how they been taught here. I'm proud of those guys. As you saw today, they fought to the end of it. I mean I am proud of those guys and I mean in the end it was the guys playing on the field so that is where it came from."
NC State Head Coach Dave Doeren
Opening Statement
"Really proud of our players. They've got heart. They've got grit. They love each other. Our coaches, the guys just hung together. Carolina played their asses off, they did. They played hard. Our guys found a way to win. That's really been the thing we have talked about all week is that they were going to play for four quarters or more and we had to do the same and find a way to put it away. We did that. It wasn't always pretty but when we needed to stop them in the second half, we did. The stop in overtime was huge. I thought Reggie Gallaspy was a war-daddy. The way he ran at the end of the game… I'm so proud of that kid. The o-line came alive for him, the tight ends. We got in a rhythm when Ryan [Finley] was able to start throwing the football, the weather made it tough early. Brock Miller played in his first game and made a bunch of plays for us on defense. I'm really proud of Brock. You talk about your first college start being at Carolina, the rival game… Really proud of him. All we talked about all week was being physical, winning the line of scrimmage and tackling and finding a way to win. We did that. We weren't good on third down, but we were good in a lot of other ways. I think the best thing we did is we were tough, we finished and we had grit. A couple of our seniors played out of their minds. Darian Roseboro played with a bad ankle today and just gut check for him. A bunch of them were like that. I love these guys and am proud of them."
On Reggie Gallaspy's impact
"Reggie has heart. I was just hugging him in the locker room and my sons were right next to me and I told him that I hope my boys have the same heart that he has when they get older because that kid is 100% heart. He's tough, he won't be denied, he's big and all that but he is so mentally and physically there. He's playing for his daughter. He has it all together right now. You're not going to stop that guy. He's going to square you up and he's going to fall forward. It was fun having the bus rolling today."
On winning the last three games in the series vs. UNC
"I want to keep that streak going. It means something to our players. For our senior class that has been here five years, they've won four of five against them. That means a lot to these kids. As their coach, I want them to have that. We have to fight for it every year because every year it's a tough game with them."
On NC State's rushing offense
"It's unbelievable. I've always said that your attitude comes from your run game. You throw to score but you run to win. I believe that. I think it is a DNA thing with the football team. That's how my teeth were cut in this game, it's what I believe in and that's what we are going to be. I just don't believe in throwing it, not that it is not a great way to win games. We are going to throw when it is there, we are going to take those plays. We will have chunk plays. We are going to score touchdowns throwing the football. But our demeanor is going to be that we can win the line of scrimmage and you have to believe in your run game to have that demeanor. I've got an o-line coach that believes that with me… It's part of who we are. Reggie, right now, is a cog in it."
On if Doeren knew that Gallaspy had five touchdowns
"I didn't know he had five, but I knew he had several. We were standing in the huddle trying to figure out what end we wanted to be at for overtime and I wanted to be opposite their band and we didn't end up getting that but Ryan said, 'Reggie scores every time we go down there.' I said, 'well, let's go down there then.' We ended up going down there but it still worked out."
Postgame Quotes
North Carolina Head Coach Larry Fedora
Opening Statement
"I am proud of this football team for the effort they gave today. They gave a lot of effort, they fought, they prepared themselves this week and we just didn't make enough plays to win a football game and we left a lot of points out there on the field today."
On coming up short again
"There were a lot of opportunities before [the drive with eight minutes left]. We had opportunities in the first half to win the football game right then and put the game away and we failed to do it. It is frustrating for everybody in that locker room. They are the ones working their butt off every day, they are buying in every day and I have got to find a way to get over that hump."
On freshman QB Cade Fortin's performance
"Cade did a nice job for a true freshman. I thought he threw the ball around well. He took care of the ball. He took some hits out there today. For the most part he put the ball where it should go."
On the conclusion of the season
"I am not happy by any means. I am hurting just like every one of those players down there. They just left it all out on the field and came up short again. Everybody down there, every coach, everybody that is involved in this program is hurting."
On offense getting going in the second half
"We just made routine plays. We missed so many in the first half; we didn't really do anything differently. Everything that we called was open in the first half, all we had to do was catch the football, just throw it and catch it."
On being in a position to win
"I told them it is my responsibility to put them in a position to win. I got to find a way to do a better job of that. We got to put the right guys on the field at the right time to make the plays that are presented before them."
On freshman RB Javonte Williams
"It was the same things we've seen from him all year. It is unfortunate the other guys went down. But Javonte stepped in. He ran hard, he is a great kid, runs with a low pad level. He is going to get every ounce out of everything. He is violent when he runs, he finishes his runs. You very seldom see him go backwards. He is going to get something out of it."
UNC Player Quotes
Cade Fortin, Fr. QB
On the difference between the first and second halves
"I think we came out in the second half and started making plays. The O-line did a great job all game. The receivers did a great job all game. But in the second half we had a little juice. The coaches and players got us a little hyped up in the locker room. We were just ready to go out in the second half."
On being more comfortable in the second half
"I think I did settle in. At first, I was a little nervous, obviously. I think once I settled in, I was a lot more comfortable. My guys were giving me all the opportunities that I had, I just have to connect on some plays."
On the feeling of the season being over
"These seniors, they put everything on the line. Every day, everyone is working. There is no sense of anyone wanting to quit or anything like that. Everybody comes up to work every single day. There was no thought of, 'this is our record, we shouldn't play hard.' Everybody comes motivated to play."
Javonte Williams, Fr. RB
On his performance
"I think I did pretty good. There are things I could've done better in both running the ball and pass blocking. Being that they have like the No. 8 defense in the nation I think I did pretty good."
On increased confidence
"I feel like I got a lot more confident. I feel like the game is slowing down. Coach G [RB coach Robert Gillespie] trusts me more now. I think I am doing a good job and everything is falling into place."
On recapping the season
"It was a good season that taught us a lot. It didn't turn out the way we wanted to. I think we learned a lot this season that is going to help us next season. The biggest regret I have is not winning for players like Scoop [Malik Carney], Cole [Holcomb], J.K. [Britt] and all those seniors. They really work hard and instill in us what it really means to work hard and be a good player. I just hate that we lost the last game and didn't have the season that we should've."
Anthony Ratliff-Williams, Jr. WR
On takeaways from the season
"Losing is a lesson. It is not something that you can look so down upon just because everybody else does. You learn from it and you build on it and you let it be the fuel to your fire for things to come. I don't really look at this season at what could've been or in a negative light. I see the positivity. I am just ready to get back to work and I am excited for the future."
On watching Cade Fortin throughout the year
"It was just seeing him grow. He's no longer a freshman after the reps he gets and the experience he has now. He has that under his belt now in order to gain that confidence going into next season. Rather than not being so confident, he is the guy that's ahead, has that confidence and he can build on that and his repertoire is going to be stacked."
J.K. Britt, Sr. S
On turning point in the game
"The second half, of course you come out in the first half you are going to run your script. Run the plays you have scripted, about 20 plays. Then you're going to adjust based on that and then you come in out of halftime, they make adjustments on the coverages and defense that we are playing and we do the same thing. That was the turning point in the game, just making the right adjustments at halftime by both coaching staffs and both teams."
On NC State's offensive performance
"They just made some plays and that is just football. They are going to make some plays and they made them at the right time."
On describing season in one word
"Frustration … because we've come so close in so many games. I mean we've had two games this year where we went into overtime. We lost games on the last play of the game, last drive, so just frustration being this close every time and just not being able to capitalize."
Cole Holcomb, Sr. LB
On the season being over
"I've been sitting in the locker room honestly. I was just sitting there soaking it up. It is pretty crazy."
On game-ending feeling
"It stinks. This is a game you put everything into and to have it like that it hurts. I mean all year the guys have been looking at me and as one of those guys you can't show that in front of those guys. That's kind of how it's been."
On takeaways from season
"I don't know. It's been a lot of things. I am going to take a lot away from it. I learned a lot. It wasn't what I wanted, but I was out there with my best friends having a good time and enjoyed it."
On character of team
"Everybody, I mean, all the players, those guys, it's just how they've been raised, how they been taught here. I'm proud of those guys. As you saw today, they fought to the end of it. I mean I am proud of those guys and I mean in the end it was the guys playing on the field so that is where it came from."
NC State Head Coach Dave Doeren
Opening Statement
"Really proud of our players. They've got heart. They've got grit. They love each other. Our coaches, the guys just hung together. Carolina played their asses off, they did. They played hard. Our guys found a way to win. That's really been the thing we have talked about all week is that they were going to play for four quarters or more and we had to do the same and find a way to put it away. We did that. It wasn't always pretty but when we needed to stop them in the second half, we did. The stop in overtime was huge. I thought Reggie Gallaspy was a war-daddy. The way he ran at the end of the game… I'm so proud of that kid. The o-line came alive for him, the tight ends. We got in a rhythm when Ryan [Finley] was able to start throwing the football, the weather made it tough early. Brock Miller played in his first game and made a bunch of plays for us on defense. I'm really proud of Brock. You talk about your first college start being at Carolina, the rival game… Really proud of him. All we talked about all week was being physical, winning the line of scrimmage and tackling and finding a way to win. We did that. We weren't good on third down, but we were good in a lot of other ways. I think the best thing we did is we were tough, we finished and we had grit. A couple of our seniors played out of their minds. Darian Roseboro played with a bad ankle today and just gut check for him. A bunch of them were like that. I love these guys and am proud of them."
On Reggie Gallaspy's impact
"Reggie has heart. I was just hugging him in the locker room and my sons were right next to me and I told him that I hope my boys have the same heart that he has when they get older because that kid is 100% heart. He's tough, he won't be denied, he's big and all that but he is so mentally and physically there. He's playing for his daughter. He has it all together right now. You're not going to stop that guy. He's going to square you up and he's going to fall forward. It was fun having the bus rolling today."
On winning the last three games in the series vs. UNC
"I want to keep that streak going. It means something to our players. For our senior class that has been here five years, they've won four of five against them. That means a lot to these kids. As their coach, I want them to have that. We have to fight for it every year because every year it's a tough game with them."
On NC State's rushing offense
"It's unbelievable. I've always said that your attitude comes from your run game. You throw to score but you run to win. I believe that. I think it is a DNA thing with the football team. That's how my teeth were cut in this game, it's what I believe in and that's what we are going to be. I just don't believe in throwing it, not that it is not a great way to win games. We are going to throw when it is there, we are going to take those plays. We will have chunk plays. We are going to score touchdowns throwing the football. But our demeanor is going to be that we can win the line of scrimmage and you have to believe in your run game to have that demeanor. I've got an o-line coach that believes that with me… It's part of who we are. Reggie, right now, is a cog in it."
On if Doeren knew that Gallaspy had five touchdowns
"I didn't know he had five, but I knew he had several. We were standing in the huddle trying to figure out what end we wanted to be at for overtime and I wanted to be opposite their band and we didn't end up getting that but Ryan said, 'Reggie scores every time we go down there.' I said, 'well, let's go down there then.' We ended up going down there but it still worked out."
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