2022 Chattanooga Mocs Football
at Eastern Illinois – Sept. 10 – O'Brien Field
Postgame Quotes

Coach Rusty Wright
On it wasn't pretty but it was a win:
"That was a good win for our football team. Because we kept playing. Good thing happened...dad thing happened...bad thing happened...good thing. It was hard, man. It was hard down there. That's a much better football team we played in 2019. They're coached up really well. I think this football team got better tonight. I'm not talking about just because we won. I'm talking about how we've won how we figured out a way to go win on a long road trip. We figured out a friggin' way to go win."

On how his team seemed to always have an answer tonight:
"I mean, that's something we've talked about a lot, you know, and that's what this group has got to understand. You get picked to win the league, you're ranked, you will get everybody's best shot. I don't care who we're playing. I mean, we're gonna get everybody's best shot every Saturday. That's good. I want it to be that way. But we've got to clean up a bunch of stuff. But I am so happy for those kids in that locker room right now."

McClendon Curtis, Sr.-OL
On the play of the offense:
"We won the game.  The offense did OK. We felt like we could be better.  The offensive line and the whole offense has to continue to get better.  It will come.  It starts with practice."

Jay Person, Jr.-Edge
On the first road trip:
"It was a good win.  Long drive to get here, so it was good to get the win.  It would have been a long ride home with a loss.

On the defense:
"I felt like we played good.  We can definitely get better.  There are definitely some things we have to correct."

Ty Boeck, Sr.-LB
On the defense:
"Definitely some mistakes on defense that we are going to have to clean up next week.  A lot of good things we can take away from this game.  There was really only one drive I can say that the defense really lost focus, and that was early in the third quarter.  After that, we were really locked in and finished the game the right way."

On getting a team win: 
"We knew we were going to have to win on at least two of the three phases of the game.  I think we did a good job with that. "