From The Locker Rooms....
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| Ron Powlus |
Notre Dame Players
Irish quarterback Ron Powlus
"This is an awful way to end this season. This is an awful way
to end my career if we don't go to a bowl game. We wanted to
send coach Holtz out right, but we didn't.
"Credit USC because they played a great game and never gave up."
USC Players
Trojan quarterback Brad Otton
"I definitely knew I was hurt and where I got hurt. But
the worst I felt was last week when I had to come out and watch
my team play without me in overtime. I wasn't going to let that
happen tonight."
"It's been a frustrating year for all of us. We wanted to
be remembered as a Rose Bowl Team, a national championship team,
but we fell short of that. But we'll always be known as the
team that beat Notre Dame and broke the streak, and that means a
lot."
"When Coach Robinson told me I was out, I kind of went
around him - not through him - I went to Coach Riley and we talked
about what we thought I could do. We never really talked to
Coach Robinson."
"I nearly got myself killed going after the game ball after
it got knocked down on the last play. I got the ball and I gave
it to Coach Robinson. Hopefully, it will mean a lot to him."
"Two years ago, we used the Cotton Bowl as a starting point
for the Rose Bowl season. Hopefully our young guys will use
this as a starting point for next season."
