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Coach Bo Pelini Postgame Quotes

Nebraska vs. Missouri
Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008
Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Neb.

Nebraska Coach Bo Pelini
On Nebraska’s mistakes
"Missouri was better than us tonight. I’ll tell you what I just told the team. I apologized to the team. I don’t point the finger, I point the thumb. It all starts with me. We got out-coached tonight. We weren’t well enough prepared. We got beat and we got beat soundly. I’m the head of this ship and I take full responsibility for it. I have to do a better job. Our staff needs to do a better job to give this team a better opportunity to win. We’re making too many mistakes and that’s coaching. Once again, it’s my fault. If you want to point a finger at somebody, point it at me because I’m not getting the job done. That’s about all that needs to be said. We got beat. We got beat soundly. They played better than us and they definitely coached better than us."

On what Nebraska’s game plan was against Missouri
"Execute. We wanted to get pressure on them and started to do that early. Started to get hits on the guy (Chase Daniel), but I thought we needed to make some things happen. We didn’t execute. We had some busts. Our guys weren’t well enough prepared to execute the plan and the plan we laid out wasn’t good enough. Once again, that’s my responsibility and it won’t happen again."

On if Pelini was embarrassed
"I’m not used to losing. I’m not used to getting beat soundly. Once again, that’s my fault. Yes, damn right, yes, I am embarrased. I apologize to the team, I apologize to the state of Nebraska, I apologize to everybody associated with the University of Nebraska football and it’s my responsibility. I was hired to do a job and I didn’t do that job tonight."

On Nebraska’s offensive statistics
"It’s not about numbers. It’s about points. We’re not about statistics. We’re about winning football games and we got our butts kicked and that’s my fault."

On Missouri’s physicalness
"They’re a good football team. I give them all the credit in the world, but we made them pretty good too with some of the things that we did. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not taking anything away from Missouri. Like I said, they out-coached us and they out-played us. It starts with me."

On bouncing back
"Go back to work. I’ve never quit anything in my life. I’m a fighter. We’re going to come out fighting. I think that we have character in our locker room. We have to get better as a football team and that’s the only way I know how to go about it."