“It’s not our goal. It’s an early goal, it’s not the ultimate goal, obviously. But when you’re 6-0 and 6-1 and get to a bowl, you kind of say, ‘hey, we knew that we’re we’re going to do that anyway. That’s fine, but now we’ve got other things.’ For this team to be in such a hole, very few teams, in my estimation, could have come out of this, and that means they’ve got great character. I’m so proud of the coaches that they’ve hung in there because they were in a hole and everything was negative. And then you lose a 23-year-old, that’s crushing. It didn’t happen very often in your life, and you never want it to happen. And you can take two different paths. You can go down and just quit, and you have plenty of excuses.
“And they didn’t do that. They kept their heads up, they kept fighting, they kept competing. I think that’s why they’re so proud tonight. And I told them two (wins) had been easy, this one wasn’t easy, but you kept your head up and you kept fighting. That’s what you’ve learned through all the turmoil and tribulation, through the season this year, and I’ve learned probably as much in the last six weeks as I’ve learned my whole life. And sometimes to see the stars, you’ve got to go through the darkness, and that’s kind of what we’ve done. And I like what’s happened with this team and how they’ve responded to it.”
via Inside Carolina
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