Ted Roof Quotations

When we get the green light, we'll evaluate where he is and where we are and make the best decision we can at that point.

When we get opportunities, we've got to take advantage. I've never harped on it as much as we have this preseason camp ... because of what we've done in the past in the scoring zone.

We're committed to playing people because that's going to help us at the end of ballgames and that's going to help us towards the end of the season. Instead of asking a guy the last part of the season who has already played 850 snaps to play 80 more, it makes sense to me that there should be an increase in production when a guy has played 575 to 600 snaps at that point in the year.

We're not deep enough, but we're deeper than we were last year. We've just got to keep addressing depth in recruiting and the development of the players that we have.

Nobody's happy about losing or how we lost it. When good players are put in position to make plays, they've got to make them. The bottom line is we simply have to get better.

I wouldn't change anything. We have to go back to making sure we have evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of our players.

I wish him well in his future endeavors. I certainly appreciate Mike's contributions to Duke football and respect him for that.

He's always had a strong arm, but as far as knowing where to go with the ball, dealing the ball in time and just other things that make up quarterbacks, I've seen more of a growth in that area.

He's always had a good arm and he's decently mobile, but the intangibles are what make a quarterback. There is no substitute for experience and Mike is battle-tested in this league (ACC).

He's been playing with it the last two weeks, and it really took a step backwards where it's going to make him unavailable. You just hope to protect Mike and keep him healthy and hope that things go well.

It certainly set the tone for the second half. I surely don't want to say that was the only play that affected the outcome of the game, but we've got to be able to get off the field on third and long.

It certainly helped my chances to remain sitting here in this seat. It's a good memory, just like all the wins are good memories.

I think it's very comparable. I think that's going to be how we get out of this deal -- we recruit our way out of it.

Our quarterbacks played under extreme pressure. I thought they did a good job hanging in there. What they did today, that wasn't easy.

I thought it was a good fight. I thought we fought to the bitter end.

I think they're in the same ballpark. I think they're very comparable.

That was a great day for us. I thought our kids played really well. We had a lot of belief that day and belief is a powerful tool.

We do have to get something going offensively, but it's not any one particular deal. We need to protect the quarterback better, we need to run better routes, we need to throw it better and we need to catch it better.

We got beat by a better football team.

Well expand what were doing a little bit.

You know, when you look at the final scoreboard, you might not see that. If you watched the game and you felt the game, our guys made some strides. I am not happy and I am not satisfied with the loss, but we are going to go back to work and correct the mistakes, accentuate the positives and build off those.

We knew that Allison was a big-play guy from all the reports that we had read, and we've got to make plays on the deep end. A couple of times we didn't today, and whenever you don't do that, it costs you.

We tell 'em to call it close and tight.

We just got beat in every phase of the game today. They are a much better football team than we are.

We're going to wait to see what happens. We don't know what's going to happen right there right now. We're going to practice this week and give some guys some turns, some opportunities, and then we'll make an announcement about what we're going to do there a little bit closer to the game.

Everybody will be a better player when they're 23 than they are at 18.

Right now we're preparing like we're not going to have him. The most important thing for him is to take care of his family. That's the top priority.

Right now, we do not have a large margin for error. Unforced errors are unacceptable.

Anything that can help the game, I'm for. Provided it doesn't make the game significantly longer.

They did some good things. We were able to play about everybody who had a helmet or shoulder pads today, which is a good thing for morale.

Football got taken away from him for a while.

It's easy to say this happened or that happened or whatever. But we're all accountable. There's no reason to scratch your head, there's no magic dust. We've just got to coach our way, recruit our way and work our way out of this.

It's probably a good thing 'cause he'll need some of that on Saturday.

That's so far from the truth, but man, you've got to admire a freshman who stands up and says that. To be a quarterback, you've got have those qualities. I'm really proud of him.

That is the thing, there is no exhale. Each week, it seems like there is a top-25 team that we are teeing it up against. That is part of the wonderful thing about being in this league.

It's better to be counting on freshmen at receiver than on the offensive line.

They were under duress a large part of the time, so it's tough to evaluate. We didn't protect and they didn't have time. I thought Mike threw some good balls, and we had a couple of drops. We have to make those plays.

I really think he might have a chance to play more football after he leaves here.

He's suspended for the game and will not dress. He's been running every morning at 6 a.m.

The injuries cant seem to get spread out over different positions. It seems like when the injury bug bites, it hits all the same spots.