Tommy Bowden Year Quotations

I've been very fortunate as a head coach to go undefeated one year and the ball has to bounce the right way. You have to be lucky. I think Bear Bryant said that it's better to be lucky than good. We just weren't lucky this year.

I've been here seven years and he's been my quarterback for four. He's sitting up here with a college degree. ... what a great ambassador for college football. His leadership skills and how he responded after a disappointing year last year, which was my fault. The way he handled it to the media might have put a couple more years on my contract.

Last year was our best and this year was better.

We had a couple of third and longs, and they hit the short guy and the short guy ran for the first down. Last year they didn't make that decision as often as they should have.

I don't know how many touchdown passes (Whitehurst) threw last year. But I bet you by the end of the year we'll have more.

I don't know how many touchdown passes (Whitehurst) threw last year, ... But I bet you by the end of the year we'll have more.

Too many mistakes in the red zone by the offense. That's kind of is going back to last year with some of the same problems we had.