Ralph Friedgen
Ralph Friedgen
Ralph Harry Friedgenis an American football coach. He was most recently the special assistant coach for Rutgers after serving as the offensive coordinator in the 2014 season. He was the head coach at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2000 to 2010. After the 2010 regular season, it was announced that Friedgen would not be returning for the 2011 season, ending his ten-year run as head coach. Affectionately known as "The Fridge", Friedgen was previously an offensive coordinator at...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 April 1947
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We really had some opportunities, especially in the first half. Virginia Tech is one of the best teams in the country. When you get opportunities, you have to be able to take advantage of them.
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I expect him to be a great player and nothing less. When he doesn't live up to that expectation, I'm not a happy person. I'm not happy when he throws interceptions like he did today in the red zone. That has to stop if we're going to win. It doesn't matter how good he plays, if he keeps turning the ball over we're not going to win.
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That team is like sharks feeding for a turnover.
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I think we played hard and had the opportunities, but we didn't take advantage of them.
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I think we played hard and we had the opportunities, but we didn't take advantage of them. When we had the ball with good field position after turning them over, we weren't able to come away with any points. That was really the difference in the game.
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I think we had an excellent game plan and our kids executed it well. I thought we were very unpredictable.
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I have a young team that I'm trying to bring along, not only for this game, but for the rest of the season. We tried to spend a couple of those days on areas we thought we could improve on.
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The area I think has to come along the most is the receiving corps. (Aside from Weatherly, a senior) everyone else is a young guy. But there's some talent there.
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It wasn't one of the better days in my life.
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Do I have to? You really know how to hurt a guy, don't you? It wasn't one of the better days of my life.
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He struggled to make kicks from the 15-yard line at first. Through a lot of hard work in the weight room, he's really improved.
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I'm hoping this gives us the confidence we need to get better.
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I was reaching for my whistle, but I didn't have it on. He doesn't think another human can bring him down. I was trying to get our guys to go over there and protect him after he had about eight guys on him.
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I can honestly say that I think we're ahead of where I thought we'd be at this point. I thought we'd still be searching at quarterback. Joel has had a good spring.