Rich Rodriguez Win Quotations

We're obviously excited to win the outright Big East championship. Our young men have worked very hard all season to achieve this goal.

I don't mind them being proud. The motivating factor is to play well and execute and win the game. I hope our defense plays as well as it has the rest of the year. If they do, we will be a good team.

I don't ever remember having five turnovers and still winning the game. Syracuse had a good defensive plan. We were scrambling all day on offense.

The last couple of games there's been a lot of long drives. The games are going a lot faster, which is OK as long as you win it.

Obviously, the ultimate goal is to win the national championship. I think any coach of a program at this level would say that.

But Adam and Pat both have earned the right to play. They both are good enough to win with. The nice part is we can run the whole offense with both. They're unselfish and understand their roles.

There weren't a lot of folks that expected us to win 10 games this year. I think the guys in that locker room believed that they could do it, and they did.

We have a lot of work to do. But I'd rather win ugly than lose pretty.

We lost a lot of guys to graduation last year, so we realized there wasn't going to be a lot of talk about us winning the Big East this year. It was neat to watch them come together.

As I told the team, we're not only looking for guys who can learn the system, we're also looking for guys who love to compete every day. The greatest players I've ever coached were guys who not only had talent, but wanted to win every drill they were in, and every play.

When you make somebody one-dimensional, your chances of winning the game are pretty good.

It's like a basketball coach saying he's been to the Final Four. It's nice to have that recognition, but our goal is to be there more than once, and win it.