Opening Statement
I think that’s the best game I’ve ever been a part of, regardless of who won that game, unbelievable back and forth. Penn State is a damn good football team. They figured out some stuff there against us at the end. I think we both scored two touchdowns in the second half, just an unbelievable back and forth.
Q: What can you say about Dante Moore and the way that he kept going on throughout the game?
A: I think we have the best quarterback in college football. Anybody watch that game? That guy’s composure, his poise…tells you a little bit about that guy.
Q: Massive plays from your freshmen, playing in front of 100,000 people probably for the first time for most of them, what did you make about their composure, being 18-19 year olds and handling this?
A: Yeah, I think that’s two years in a row we played against the biggest crowd in Oregon history, which speaks volumes about how these guys can handle the stage, and what we said was, how the whiteout was really going to be a white canvas for us today. We had an opportunity to win, and those guys did it. Unbelievable job just going out there and executing every play and then playing the next play. I thought we had really good composure throughout the game. There’s a couple times we hurt ourselves, the penalty obviously late, but overall, our players played their asses off.
Q: If Dante can come into this environment, and deliver the way that he did, just how do you view this experience in the bigger picture, evolution, and education of him?
A: This is a huge one for our entire team, right? Because that crowd’s probably worth seven points, right? And they really weren’t tonight. I really didn’t feel that much ourselves.