Head Coach Buddy Teevens
General comments
"It's a very disappointing outcome. Give Cal great credit. We knew they were a talented offense. It was just embarrassing, our inability to move the football. As coaches, we take responsibility for that. The bottom line was they made plays."
"From an offensive standpoint, we just didn't do what we needed to do. We knew they were talented offensively. We wanted to keep them off the field. Give Jeff Tedford credit. They were ready. The crowd was jacked. You expect that in a rivalry game. They were ready to play and our guys were ready to play."
On what he takes away from this season
"The biggest thing, I thank the seniors. It would have been easy to fold up the tents. Everybody just kept playing on during this transition. I thanked them and let our guys know we need to make sure this doesn't happen in the future."
"It's frustrating. We just were not very productive. We need to be more efficient. I feel disappointed, but not discouraged. In my business, if you don't win, some people want you out right away, and some don't. If you look at the won-loss column, obviously I'm disappointed."
"We learned we don't want to go through it again."
"You have two options in life - you can stop or go forward."
On what is next for the team
"We get in the weight room tomorrow. The attitude of the players - they grabbed me inside (the locker room) and said 'OK, when do we start?' We need to get stronger and our quarterback situation needs to get settled."
"The biggest thing is quarterback development. If you can't throw downfield, people kind of collapse the field and that makes it difficult to pass downfield."
On Stanford freshman QB Kyle Matter
"It's hard. We forget that he's a redshirt freshman and doesn't have anything to draw from. He'll be far better the more he plays."
On Cal senior QB Kyle Boller
"Look at Kyle Boller. He's as good a quarterback as there is in the Pac-10 if not the country."
Ryan Wells, Flanker
General comments:
"What's been hurting us this year is that we start off fast sometimes and then once we have our chance, for some reason, we stop executing. I think that's what happened to us again today."
On the teams' mood:
"Everybody is very disappointed losing the Big Game. It would have been our eighth straight, and we didn't reach that goal. Everybody is very upset."
On why things went so poorly today:
"We've been preaching to execute the offense. I give a lot of credit to Cal. They came out playing hard. They put a lot of pressure on our quarterback. I think we weren't able to handle their pressure sometimes today. We weren't able to handle our shots downfield, and I think that is what hurt us."
Matt Leonard, Defensive Tackle
General Comments:
"Me being a senior, this is my last game. I'm not bitter about it in the least. Stanford has given me a lot including a Pac-10 Championship. I'm totally satisfied with what I accomplished here at Stanford. It's going to leave a bitter taste in my mouth losing this one."
"Everyone on the team agrees that this was the most important game we've played this year, especially since we're not going to a bowl game. We had a lot of young guys in key positions that were not used to playing in that type of situation in a game that you needed to win. Unfortunately we didn't execute when we needed to and the score reflects that."
"(Cal) was a very good team. They have a different offense than they used to in the past. It was obviously very effective. The (Cal) players are the same that I've played against in the past. (Cal's) Scott Tercero and Kyle Boller I've played against for four years in a row. (Tercero and Boller) are much more mature. They don't make as many mistakes as they did in the past. (Cal) is a very good team this year and they're probably going to be a very good team in the future."
Greg Schindler, Offensive Guard
General Comments:
"(Cal) challenged us on one-on-one match-ups."
"This is obviously a tough year. Even in my five years, twice we rebounded from losing seasons. I've been involved with some great turnaround in this program. The reason I think that's possible is not only because of the young talent, but because of the general character we have on the team. We've never stopped believing what we were doing. We never stopped fighting for what we were doing. I think we have some resilient young guys who will learn from this season and go on to do some great things in the future."
"It's disappointing being a senior, knowing this was our last chance to do some things we hadn't accomplished. We hadn't won a bowl game and some of those things."