Nov. 5, 2005
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Arizona State Quotes
Head Coach Dirk Koetter
(on Rudy Carpenter's play) "I think Rudy did awesome. The first half, Rudy was spectacular. Rudy is still going through some growing pains, and at times trying to do too much. He's had so much success that I think sometimes Rudy thinks he's got an 'S' underneath that No. 12 and that he is Superman. He's got to learn that sometimes it's not there and you have to abort the mission. All young quarterbacks go through that. The flip side of that is that Rudy can make some plays running around. He did that in the first half tonight."
(on stopping the Cougars on fourth down after the offsides penalty) "There is no doubt in my mind when they had that field goal and we jumped offsides that they would go for that; the way they were running the ball. I think we would have probably done the same thing had the shoe been on the other foot. That was a huge, huge defensive play."
Quarterback Rudy Carpenter
(on the game) "We had a great game plan this week. We didn't want to get in third and long where we had to make conversions. But when we did, we did a great job converting them; guys were open and coming up with big catches. The offensive line did a great job giving me time too."
(on if he anticipated Zach Miller being open or if it played out that way) "It kind of just played out that way. We had a lot of things where it was either/or. If they played this coverage we had this; if they played that coverage we had someone else. They played a lot of the coverage we didn't expect them to play, so Zach was open a lot of times in the middle of the field and he came up with some big plays."
Tight End Zach Miller
(on why he was open) "They (WSU defense) were really getting deep...they would just leave me in the flats. They fixed that as the game went on but it worked for us for awhile."