Comments From Michigan Head Coach Lloyd Carr
12/27/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
As for this being his last game and whether it has been difficult for the team... "It's been different from the standpoint that a lot of our assistant coaches are out there and looking and interviewing for jobs, and the uncertainty of that is something that is always a difficulty because you are talking about taking children out of schools and moving, going through change, so we try to handle that. Our players have had the opportunity to talk to Coach (Rich) Rodriguez about where they fit as far as their particular situation, so there have been some issues that we particularly have to deal with, but we are here and we are fine."
About practices in Orlando... "Our practices here in Orlando have gone real well. We always have a few guys who ate a little too much over Christmas, but I think we've had some good concentration here."
About Florida quarterback Tim Tebow... "We have faced some great quarterbacks down through the years. Certainly Tebow, to win the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore, tells you something about him. You have got to get up close to him. He's 240 pounds and a great athlete and he's a guy who has a lot of designed runs with so it's an assignment game for us on defense.
"Tim is a power runner who can lower his shoulder and run over you. The most important thing about their offense though is that Florida has converted 56 percent on third down. The reason they have been doing that is that he is such a great athlete and they have managed to stay out of many third-down-and-long situations."
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