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Quick presser today - they wrapped up questions fast, and instructed us not to ask questions about his health, focus on the WI game. These are my live, unedited notes, typing as he spoke.
• We're looking forward to this weekend's game, a huge game for us, big rivalry game, what college football is all about. Gives us an opportunity to try to get better.
• I haven't talked on the phone much since Saturday, but I picked up the phone and called someone that's been in this position a lot, and who I respect a lot and he told me (he didn't specify who it was), "Coach, you're just about where you are when you turn a program around. When you 1st get in, you're not very good. Then you start winning and progressing. Then you win some but can't get around the corner. When you build a program you find ways to win, you don't find ways to lose." I said all along we don't have any margin for errors, and we've made some errors that are fundamental. Moving forward, we need to take what we've had over the past few weeks, a good attitude.
• Their attitude is good, we're so darn young, I don't think they know any better.
• Our injury report - Foster Bush is out, Roland Johnson questionable, Ed Olson is questionable, Tuffs probably won't play, Wells can hopefully play, Gray, Fruechte, and Marcus Jones are questionable.
• On Gray he's about where he was in the bye week. He's in a boot. Want to get to the point where we have him jogging soon. We won't play him, unless he's ready to go.
• We have a team that's tremendously young, all the playing time they can get will help them.
• On the offensive side of the ball, we're just young, all the way around.
• It's difficult when you have a group of 5 people that have to communicate, with so many injuries, and people being out every week. There's a lot of communication going in between the plays, and you can have a breakdown. We practice a lot of people everyday. The game is about communication, if you don't get it communicated to the right people, it's a problem. People aren't lining up like they used to in the same plays, they're doing stuff different.
• Wisconsin didn't get where they've been without an identity, and their identity is running the football. They know what they do, and how they want to do it. They made some changes at the beginning of the year. They've just improved as a football team, and certainly as an offensive football team.
• We're not going to face a no huddle team - unless WI changes (unlike last week). As far as stopping the run game, it comes down to execution. It's a lot easier said than done.
• On UNC - that decision developed from when I 1st came here. Right now, we've got to concentrate on WI.
• If you turn the ball over, you're not going to win, it doesn't have anything to do with talent. It's my responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen.
• We're looking forward to this weekend's game, a huge game for us, big rivalry game, what college football is all about. Gives us an opportunity to try to get better.
• I haven't talked on the phone much since Saturday, but I picked up the phone and called someone that's been in this position a lot, and who I respect a lot and he told me (he didn't specify who it was), "Coach, you're just about where you are when you turn a program around. When you 1st get in, you're not very good. Then you start winning and progressing. Then you win some but can't get around the corner. When you build a program you find ways to win, you don't find ways to lose." I said all along we don't have any margin for errors, and we've made some errors that are fundamental. Moving forward, we need to take what we've had over the past few weeks, a good attitude.
• Their attitude is good, we're so darn young, I don't think they know any better.
• Our injury report - Foster Bush is out, Roland Johnson questionable, Ed Olson is questionable, Tuffs probably won't play, Wells can hopefully play, Gray, Fruechte, and Marcus Jones are questionable.
• On Gray he's about where he was in the bye week. He's in a boot. Want to get to the point where we have him jogging soon. We won't play him, unless he's ready to go.
• We have a team that's tremendously young, all the playing time they can get will help them.
• On the offensive side of the ball, we're just young, all the way around.
• It's difficult when you have a group of 5 people that have to communicate, with so many injuries, and people being out every week. There's a lot of communication going in between the plays, and you can have a breakdown. We practice a lot of people everyday. The game is about communication, if you don't get it communicated to the right people, it's a problem. People aren't lining up like they used to in the same plays, they're doing stuff different.
• Wisconsin didn't get where they've been without an identity, and their identity is running the football. They know what they do, and how they want to do it. They made some changes at the beginning of the year. They've just improved as a football team, and certainly as an offensive football team.
• We're not going to face a no huddle team - unless WI changes (unlike last week). As far as stopping the run game, it comes down to execution. It's a lot easier said than done.
• On UNC - that decision developed from when I 1st came here. Right now, we've got to concentrate on WI.
• If you turn the ball over, you're not going to win, it doesn't have anything to do with talent. It's my responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen.
