Manny Diaz Game Quotations

The kicking game is always the hardest to practice in full-speed situations. There will be penalties in the kicking game. There will be mistakes. It always happens in the first game.

The biggest concern is they apply so much pressure, in all phases, that if you make a mistake they're going to punish you. Against Virginia Tech, that always concerns you, and it's quadrupled in the first game of the year, because someone is going to make a mistake in the first game. That's just the way it is.

Knowing the kind of coach Frank Beamer is, he knows we could have sacked the quarterback 150 times -- that they lost the game because their punter drops the snap and because they miss a field goal at the end. If one of those two things don't happen, they win. Forget our D-line, forget everything else.