More about the failure to get a 13th game

After the reached their 3rd drop dead date, HF said:
"We've been working on it for so long. I'm not going to wait any longer." (HA)


About the 3 teams that have been considering their offer since May, HF said:
"They've had some ample time to come forward. I'm not into begging. I just had it." (HA)


Not wanting to name the 2 teams or even the conferences they are in, HF said:
"I just can't do that. There could be some wounds there." (HA)


About the 12 teams he contacted about their 2 open dates, HF said:
"Every single AD wanted to do it. There was opposition in the ranks." (HA)


Sad that they didn't get a 13th game, Patek said:
"It's a little disappointing. Knowing all of the guys are competitive, we wanted that 13th game. We wanted to get a Michigan game to show what we've got. We've got to prepare for the season and the games ahead of us. We can't be wishing for anything else now." (HA)


Frustrated that they didn't get a 13th game, Solomon Elimunian said:
"We wanted more games. We all did. It's not our fault a lot of teams don't want to play us. I can see why teams don't want to play us. We have a lot of great players, like Colt (Brennan), Davone (Bess) and Ryan (Grice-Mullins). We're all frustrated, but there's nothing we can do. If that's what we've got, that's what we've got. We'll try to win all 12." (HA)


Expecting criticism for the scheduling failure, HF said:
"Criticism will always be there. I just hope people will understand we kept plugging away to the end. Conceivably, we could keep trying, but we don't want to spin our wheels." (HSB)


Putting his best spin on the situation, HF said:
"It's not the end of the world that we don't have 13 games. We have some strategic byes that can help the team." (HSB)


HSB note: "And now we know the kind of club Frazier has in his bag, and hopefully he does now, too, and adjusts accordingly. That seemed to be part of the problem, in this scenario, that he'd been operating under a false premise of how much influence he has (though you can't really blame him, with the number of "most influential" lists on which he's appeared)."