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per the Fresno Bee:
It’s no secret. Fresno State has struggled lately against Power Five conference opponents. The past nine games, an 0-fer. And they haven’t been close. But in going to Minnesota on Saturday, there are some hints that could change against the Golden Gophers.
The talent the Bulldogs will put on the field is only part of it.
The mindset is another.
“The name doesn’t mean anything anymore to us,” cornerback Jaron Bryant said. “At the end of the day, they put on their shoes the way we do – one foot at a time. They put on their pants on one leg at a time, just like we do. The name doesn’t mean anything. At the end of the day, you have to play hard football.”
Suffice it to say, there was the time the name did mean something.
“It did,” Bryant said. “As soon as we played the big names we used to get scared. My freshman year we played big-name schools and we thought, ‘We’re going to lose.’ “
When Bryant was a freshman in 2016 Fresno State opened the season at Nebraska.
“Now it’s, ‘Let’s play,’ “ Bryant said. “Coach (Jeff) Tedford came in with that system, that mindset of, ‘It doesn’t matter who we line up against, we have to play hard-nosed football.’ That’s what Jim Sweeney installed here in this program and with coach Tedford kind of related to coach Sweeney, he took that and ran with it.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/co...state/bulldogs-football/article217940625.html
Go Gophers!!
It’s no secret. Fresno State has struggled lately against Power Five conference opponents. The past nine games, an 0-fer. And they haven’t been close. But in going to Minnesota on Saturday, there are some hints that could change against the Golden Gophers.
The talent the Bulldogs will put on the field is only part of it.
The mindset is another.
“The name doesn’t mean anything anymore to us,” cornerback Jaron Bryant said. “At the end of the day, they put on their shoes the way we do – one foot at a time. They put on their pants on one leg at a time, just like we do. The name doesn’t mean anything. At the end of the day, you have to play hard football.”
Suffice it to say, there was the time the name did mean something.
“It did,” Bryant said. “As soon as we played the big names we used to get scared. My freshman year we played big-name schools and we thought, ‘We’re going to lose.’ “
When Bryant was a freshman in 2016 Fresno State opened the season at Nebraska.
“Now it’s, ‘Let’s play,’ “ Bryant said. “Coach (Jeff) Tedford came in with that system, that mindset of, ‘It doesn’t matter who we line up against, we have to play hard-nosed football.’ That’s what Jim Sweeney installed here in this program and with coach Tedford kind of related to coach Sweeney, he took that and ran with it.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/co...state/bulldogs-football/article217940625.html
Go Gophers!!