Al Groh
Al Groh
Al Grohis an American football analyst and former player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1981 to 1986 and at the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2009, compiling a career college football coaching record of 85–92. Groh was also the head coach for the New York Jets of the National Football Leaguefor one season, in 2000, tallying a mark of 9–7. He last coached as the defensive coordinator for Georgia Tech...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 July 1944
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Now that we have (Brown and Cook) here, and we're actually coaching them, we have a much better sense of how quickly they catch on to things and how physically ready they might be, ... That changes the equation and some of the things that are available to us.
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Fortunately, there is an easy way and the coach doesn't have to be very smart to figure that out and minimize that problem.
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If the coordinator can be the secondary coach also, then he's working with the position that every coordinator should always give the most attention to, ... Plus, most of the (defensive) adjustments that get made during the course of the game are secondary adjustments.
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Al Golden is a very engaging, energetic coach. He has contributed a great deal to our program which hopefully gives him a good model on how to do things right. His coming to Temple is a real plus for the Owl program.
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coaches don't. You can't win games without the ball. You understand that, you take it and you just move on.
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There probably haven't been too many games played by a Virginia quarterback like that one, ... It says a lot about him. This kid has a lot of attributes, but guts is high on his list. He's got a lot of heart and he cares deeply about this team.
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This is a team, as I'm sure Florida State is, that believes a lot in itself, ... Even if other people don't sometimes. I mostly give all the credit to the players who rallied themselves and responded.
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This is a team that believes a lot in itself even if other people don't sometimes, ... I'd give all the credit to the players who rallied themselves and responded. It was too early in the season to get down.
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Certainly the period of rehab would indicate that, ... Sometimes, these sprains of ankles and feet take longer than breaks do. When you hear that a guy's got a sprain instead of a break, that's not necessarily good news.
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This is a team, as I'm sure Florida State is, that believes a lot in itself. Even if other people don't sometimes. I mostly give all the credit to the players who rallied themselves and responded.
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He didn't melt away pounds over the course of the season, like he did in previous years. But he's not a small player.
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I reminded him of what we said at halftime last week: 'We're going to ride you. Let's go.'
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He just is really coming on strong, and he has a chance to be one of the better players that we've had since we've been here.