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...2 years ago when we played there.
Here are my rough notes from the Jerry Kill/Tracy Claeys/Matt Limegrover press conference. Will post official transcripts later:
Jerry Kill:
• Kids are coming in today and we're going to work on NE. We had a good team meeting on Sunday. Our job is to make sure we get them prepared and play hard and play well.
• On NE bad loss, if it help or hurts - You don't want to face Bo after that. I know what kind of competitor he is, and how intense he is. When you play them, you want them to come off a win, not a loss. I have a great deal of respect for him. He's probably got them in meetings right now, they'll be ready to play.
• David Cobb's best attribute - Patience. He's very very patient.
• From the time that Tom Osborne ran out of the tunnel, I knew we were in trouble. Before the game, their stands are 3 quarters full when you jog out for warmup. Where you're playing, the crowd, the tradition - when they marched out, and they'll have senior day this game too, they just kept coming, because they have a strong walk-on program. Hopefully they don't call Osborne back after I said that.
• These last games all have high level people that can make you miss. There's people that make the schedule, with addition to the two Big 10 conferences, and the 2 teams that came in from the east, and it all recycles. You play everyone and it cycles around.
• Mitch will be fine, I'm not worried about that part. He's multi-competitive so he'll be ready to go.
• They've got to feel good to play good, that's our biggest job this week because we need to go out and play fast.
• Melvin Gordon is on a different planet. I don't know what else to say. I just know he's really good, the thing that makes him different is his speed. He's big and he can really run fast. There's so many good ones, he's playing at a high level, but so are many other backs, including ours. He can get it over with right now, just like JT did on Saturday. Murray can run, and we just couldn't gain. Special athletes.
Tracy Claeys:
• Held OSU 15 under their average - we had one miscommunication and 2 missed tackles that gave us some grief and they're good enough to take advantage. We played a pretty good ball game, if we didn't have those, we had a good chance of holding them to 21 points. Wish close counted, it doesn't.
• The better athletes you have, the more turnovers you cause.
• Ameer Abdullah had a good game against us a year ago... fastest RB we've played. We'll have to do a much better job
• It's hard to win on the road. We’ve already been in trouble once this year trying to look ahead. Better be read this weekend I've never met anyone that thought they were bad do good at anything.
Matt Limegrover:
• I've got to give a lot of props to David Cobb, he's a guy that can make an average group look pretty good. Not that we're an average group.
• 4 things we need to work on this week - one of these 4 things was throwing the ball better, it had a more to do with the 10 other guys out there and not just Mitch.
• There's things in sports you can't explain, because NE is good at defense, sometimes a team just has another team's number. I have a feeling we're going to see their A game playing there, and coming off that game. The last thing we can do is sit back and think we have this thing figured out. This is a big week as far as preparation goes.
Mitch is a competitive kid, I think he likes it when your backs are against the wall. We're kind of in this round robin tournament to see who will win the Big 10 West, and that's where he wants to be. It's going to be loud, and they're going be hostile, bring it on.
3 or 4 games before Ohio State Donovahn Jones was really starting to come into his own. Should be a lift this week.
Here are my rough notes from the Jerry Kill/Tracy Claeys/Matt Limegrover press conference. Will post official transcripts later:
Jerry Kill:
• Kids are coming in today and we're going to work on NE. We had a good team meeting on Sunday. Our job is to make sure we get them prepared and play hard and play well.
• On NE bad loss, if it help or hurts - You don't want to face Bo after that. I know what kind of competitor he is, and how intense he is. When you play them, you want them to come off a win, not a loss. I have a great deal of respect for him. He's probably got them in meetings right now, they'll be ready to play.
• David Cobb's best attribute - Patience. He's very very patient.
• From the time that Tom Osborne ran out of the tunnel, I knew we were in trouble. Before the game, their stands are 3 quarters full when you jog out for warmup. Where you're playing, the crowd, the tradition - when they marched out, and they'll have senior day this game too, they just kept coming, because they have a strong walk-on program. Hopefully they don't call Osborne back after I said that.
• These last games all have high level people that can make you miss. There's people that make the schedule, with addition to the two Big 10 conferences, and the 2 teams that came in from the east, and it all recycles. You play everyone and it cycles around.
• Mitch will be fine, I'm not worried about that part. He's multi-competitive so he'll be ready to go.
• They've got to feel good to play good, that's our biggest job this week because we need to go out and play fast.
• Melvin Gordon is on a different planet. I don't know what else to say. I just know he's really good, the thing that makes him different is his speed. He's big and he can really run fast. There's so many good ones, he's playing at a high level, but so are many other backs, including ours. He can get it over with right now, just like JT did on Saturday. Murray can run, and we just couldn't gain. Special athletes.
Tracy Claeys:
• Held OSU 15 under their average - we had one miscommunication and 2 missed tackles that gave us some grief and they're good enough to take advantage. We played a pretty good ball game, if we didn't have those, we had a good chance of holding them to 21 points. Wish close counted, it doesn't.
• The better athletes you have, the more turnovers you cause.
• Ameer Abdullah had a good game against us a year ago... fastest RB we've played. We'll have to do a much better job
• It's hard to win on the road. We’ve already been in trouble once this year trying to look ahead. Better be read this weekend I've never met anyone that thought they were bad do good at anything.
Matt Limegrover:
• I've got to give a lot of props to David Cobb, he's a guy that can make an average group look pretty good. Not that we're an average group.
• 4 things we need to work on this week - one of these 4 things was throwing the ball better, it had a more to do with the 10 other guys out there and not just Mitch.
• There's things in sports you can't explain, because NE is good at defense, sometimes a team just has another team's number. I have a feeling we're going to see their A game playing there, and coming off that game. The last thing we can do is sit back and think we have this thing figured out. This is a big week as far as preparation goes.
Mitch is a competitive kid, I think he likes it when your backs are against the wall. We're kind of in this round robin tournament to see who will win the Big 10 West, and that's where he wants to be. It's going to be loud, and they're going be hostile, bring it on.
3 or 4 games before Ohio State Donovahn Jones was really starting to come into his own. Should be a lift this week.
