Thanks for the post Nadine. Kill did a nice job on the 11am kick-off question. To paraphrase: "I know fans don't like them. I can't do anything about them. Oh, we DO like them."
Very well played.
You're welcome. Exactly! And he made it pretty clear he wants our fans to be able to party with his comment about letting us start on Thursday, lol.
Here are the official transcripts for those who'd like them:
An interview with:
COACH JERRY KILL
COACH KILL: I think over the last two weeks, we played some good football teams. But they execute very well. They have kind of a tough demeanor to them. Then they got two dynamic backs that are scary. Because if they break the crease, it's over with. I mean, they've got one that runs the 100 meters, he's a track athlete, just one of those guys that can get over. They got it over against Michigan State. I think we all know how good Michigan State' defense is.
Then from a defensive standpoint, their secondary does a great job playing a lot of man coverage. They've locked up everybody they've seen. That allows them to play more games up front. That's the one thing I've noticed as the season's gone, they've gotten more and more confident what they're doing on the defensive side. I think that's a lot to do with their secondary.
They've changed quarterbacks, and their quarterback is a dual threat where he can run the ball as well as throw it, so that's given them a couple more options.
So it's a football team that we got to do a good job and we got to have great preparation this week. I anticipate us doing that. Kids were getting focused on Sunday. We had good film review. We look forward to Tuesday to seeing if we're the same as we've been the last six weeks, good focus and concentration. I'm sure they will.
With that I'll take any questions.
Q. How does your team handle success, when you're successful and winning?
COACH KILL: I don't think we've had a lot through here at this point in time. Through my years of experience, we don't change anything. We just do what we do. I think the more consistent you are as a coach with your demeanor whether you lose or win, you point out when you win the things that weren't so good and that can get you beat, and when you lose you point out those things why you lost, then you move on.
It's a teaching process. It's no different being in the classroom preparing for a big test. Sometimes you are successful and sometimes you fail. Either one of them, there's a learning experience from it.
We've been consistent since we've been here. I think if the kids see you get way up here, they get nervous. If they see you get way down here, they lose confidence. I think you just have to be consistent in your approach.
Q. Was there more play action than you normally do?
COACH KILL: We like to be a play action team. That's been our background throughout the years. Again, I think it's a situation where the confidence level as you go and prepare, and we know we're going to have to continue to throw the ball better, and we're certainly doing that, taking increments to do that. Mitch threw some balls on Saturday, the timing was good, he got it out. He made some tremendous throws.
We will continue to throw the play action pass. I think it's important. Keeps people off balance. Everybody getting to the line of scrimmage, it will help us run the ball better when you can do that. So we'll continue to make progress and work on that.
But throwing the football loosens that secondary up and then allows you to run the ball. So we need to do that.
Q. Is that about as well as you've seen Mitch run those plays?
COACH KILL: Again, he's a young quarterback. I think over the last two games, the biggest thing about Mitch, he's relaxed. Went out and played. Had a smile on his face, went and played. I think early in the year he was pressing, then he got hurt, went through some things. I think he's feeling good, feeling better. I always say, if you feel good, you play good. I think he's feeling better about what he's doing and more comfortable.
Q. Has Mitch improved his passing since training camp?
COACH KILL: Well, he threw it a lot during training camp, no question about that. I think people got to understand in throwing the football, we recruited him, he threw the football, that's why we recruited him, had a lot of success. It's different at college. I would tell you the biggest thing I think quarterbacks get judged a lot of times, they say, Man, bad day throwing the ball, didn't do very well. The number one thing in throwing the football is the people up front protecting it.
If he's got a chance to step into his throws, has time to step in there and throw it, he's going to be accurate. The kid can throw the football. If you're throwing off the back foot all the time, got pressure in your face, continue to get hit, that happened at TCU, I don't care who they are, they get uncomfortable. If you can get a quarterback uncomfortable, that's a good thing.
That's the same thing we try to do. We try to get those QBs uncomfortable, get nervous in that pocket. That's why we pressure people. If they get back there and they get comfortable, get in a rhythm, it's going to be a long day.
Some of the things you try to do play action wise, things of that nature, you're able to have a better opportunity to protect the quarterback, stay out of third and long. Most important thing to do is stay out of third and long. If you get in third and long, defensive tackles gear up, know you're going to throw the football. You say, We can run draw. They twist up front, take the draw away from you. If you stay out of third and long, you can throw the football better.
Q. He put pressure on himself early. At any point did you say, Relax?
COACH KILL: I think every coach on our staff did, including defensive coaches. Our defensive coaches, when he was a true freshman, he worked with the work team, got our teams ready to play. I don't know about midway through that, I know Coach Claeys and guys like that said, That guy, he's going to be good, he's going to give them a run for their money. He's tough. He'll sit in there. He throws the ball and so forth.
The defensive coaches have a lot of respect for Mitch, too. I know coach said, Hey, play like you were on the work team, man. Just relax, go play. I think every coach did. I think sometimes as a player, you just got to get comfortable. Also through that period of time, he's battling MCL and turf toe.
I really think that it's just a lot of people that were in the room that got confidence in him just said, Hey, go have fun.
He did a good job. A good example, he threw a pick on Saturday. Kid made a good play and so forth. I think three weeks ago, it would have ate him alive. Didn't do nothing to him. Came back, threw a post corner. I think that to me was really important, it really was.
But we're halfway through the season. We got a whole lot more to do. As our whole team progresses, I think Mitch will. But we have a lot of work to do.
Q. As soon as you got this job, did you tell your fellow coaches to go get some defensive backs that could run?
COACH KILL: Yeah, we did. We said we were going to build our team on defense. First thing in priority was to go get defensive players.
Everybody has a different philosophy. I had a question just asked me about, you know, no huddle and scoring, winning 50. There's a lot of ways to win a game. We felt like coming in, we needed to improve the defense, felt like you had a chance to win championships if you played good defense.
When we recruited, that was our first focus. We were going to get good on defense, then we'd move to offense. So that was our philosophy. We were fortunate, a lot of those kids playing secondary, we were the only ones recruiting several of them. But we had them in camp. We got a chance to see them.
Eric Murray was a wide receiver from Milwaukee. We got him into camp. Jimmy Zebrowski had a tie in with the high school coach. We watched him. Man, this guy can run, athletic. We felt like these are the kind of kids we got to get. We got to do a good job in the weight room and got to do a good job coaching them. That's what we try to do.
I think if you look at the teams that are winning championships, they all still play defense. I mean, I really do.
Q. How important is it to you and your philosophy to redshirt a quarterback like you did with Mitch?
COACH KILL: Well, I'd like to redshirt a lot of people, to be honest. Back in the day you could redshirt people, build your team. You got the depth and so forth.
I think it's important to redshirt a quarterback, if you can. I think it's important that you redshirt a runningback, if you can. That gets your program where you're recycling all the time. When we're playing nine or 10 freshmen, we're redshirting at this point in time three receivers that are very talented, actually four, linebacker, three or four offensive linemen. We did pull a redshirt off Connor. So that hurts you depth wise.
But we have to do it. We had an empty class. We got to make up for it. We're doing what we can. But you'd like to redshirt them all because it gives them a chance to mature in the classroom. If we had redshirted David. So now I just opened up a can of worms. People are going to write, Boy, he's a dummy, and they're right. Had to do what we had to do, right? You look back at it, you go, Didn't redshirt Jimmie Ward either, so...
Q. Flip used your suite at the stadium on Saturday for the Timberwolves. How did that come about?
COACH KILL: I don't know (laughter). Flip's got a lot of pull. He's got a lot of pull. He wants that suite, he deserves it. My wife pulls all the strings in my house, so I don't know. But good for him.
Q. In the off season you probably had a picture of how good your defense could be this year. What has surprised you or pleased you the most about how they've gone out and played?
COACH KILL: Well, I think, number one, losing Scott Ekpe, we don't have a lot of depth, I don't think we felt some of the guys that have stepped in that are young would be doing pretty well right now. They still make mistakes, but they're doing pretty well. I think we felt so good about our secondary, we needed Damien Wilson to take the next step. De'Vondre we needed to take the next step. Jack Lynn works his tail end off, but I didn't realize that he took a huge jump from one year to the next. But that's hard work. Made himself more athletic, flexibility and so forth.
I think we thought we had a chance to do some good things. But we had to have some players move forward.
Again, when you gain a little confidence, you get better. We're evaluating over a half year, so to speak, done pretty good. You know, there's still a lot of work to be done. But I think, again, that's a group that's gained confidence. Our secondary's playing very well.
Even on Saturday, I mean, kid played well. Their quarterback played well. But we made him earn it. Only scored 17 points. That's the way you got to look at it. Any time in college football you can hold somebody to 17 points offensively you better be good enough to score more than 17 on offense or special teams.
Q. What did you notice about Jalen last year? You didn't throw him right in the fire. You played him a little bit on special teams, gave him some chances.
COACH KILL: Well, speed. He had great speed. He could play offense, too. We recruited him, he could play tailback, inside receiver. Again, we're going to put some of those guys that can do special things in the secondary.
His speed, he's a physical kid. Shoot, I think he was up to 210 now. He's a big, strong corner. Just his speed. You take an athlete like that, he loves football, three quarters of this thing, you got to love football, or all of it actually. He loves playing the game of football. Good athlete.
Q. You got three of these 11 a.m. games now. How do you feel about that starting time?
COACH KILL: It's one of those things where we're controlled by the TV network. We understand that. It's one of those situations where I think for our fans, I get all kinds of emails, Why are we playing at 11:00? What's going on, coach? Get that changed.
I can't change that. That's part of TV stuff. But for a coach and kids, hey, wake up and get going. You play, then you're done in the afternoon. Then you be with your recruits. As a coach, you got more chance to get going for the next one.
You can look at it a lot of different ways. But for our fans I think it's tough, get up and tailgate at 6:30 in the morning. The atmosphere, them getting there to the game is a little bit challenging for our fans. I feel bad for our fans. There's a lot of people that got night games. People like that.
I'd say the only big concern I have, not for us so to speak, but for our fans. That's why I tell the administration they need to start letting them come in Thursday night and enjoy life (laughter).
But it is what it is. You just go play.
Q. Would you change it if you had a preference?
COACH KILL: I think for fans you'd have to help me, I'd say 2:30, that's one. A lot of people like night games because they get all afternoon to get cranked up, morning and afternoon. They like night games. Night games, you're on TV, a lot of people watching night games. They like that.
I'm all in it for the fans, what's ever best for the fans. You also have to understand TV, the money involved, the money our university gets. You just go play.
Q. You had the long pass to Maxx. Is that something that you would like to continue working on, getting him big plays?
COACH KILL: No doubt. We need to continue. We've tried to force feed that ball a little bit to him and want to. Of course, coverages dictate that a little bit. But, yeah, we got to continue to find ways to get the ball in his hand because he's a productive player. He's a good blocker. He's good. He's a really good player.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
FastScripts by ASAP Sports
An interview with:
COACH TRACY CLAEYS
Q. Purdue's offense, how much different are they with Appleby at quarterback?
COACH CLAEYS: They've been more efficient in the throwing game. Also he has scrambled for a couple really big plays and scored. With him back, I think they're more dimensional run and pass wise. Much more efficient since he's taken over at quarterback.
Q. The last couple games their offense has come out of nowhere. Why is that?
COACH CLAEYS: It's all about making plays. I think the quarterback has made some big plays for them. They have two very skilled runningbacks that have been able to get in space.
But the biggest difference is they're not as predictable with this quarterback. He extends a lot of plays with his legs. He's a true running threat. He throws the ball pretty good.
Q. 16 play drives on Saturday, not being able to get off the field, frustrating?
COACH CLAEYS: You know, here is the thing. I was frustrated in the fact that we had each drive we had a chance to get out of and finish some plays. I think Cameron could have fell on the fumble. We dropped a couple interceptions. The roughing the passer, they're going to call that every time. That's the way that went down. I'm not complaining about the call.
Each drive we had a chance to get out of it. Now, as a defensive coordinator in today's football, I never look at yardage. There's so much free yardage in no huddle offenses. They hurry up, get lined up before you're lined up. Lined up before you snap the ball. They get out and get seven, eight yards throwing the ball. Let's get lined up on the next one.
So much free yardage. It still all comes down to points. As well as we've defended them, it's the least amount of points since we've been here. They're a good offense. To hold a good no huddle offense to 17 points is good.
But you go back and look at the film. There's a chance to hold them under 10 if we make a few plays, complete a few plays on the field. We did leave some plays that could have been made.
Q. Where do you feel you stand third down wise?
COACH CLAEYS: This is probably the math side of me coming out. I think we're like 5% or 6% where we'd like to be. I think we're around 38%. You like to win two out of every three, which is right around 33%. You want them to be successful 33% of the time. I think they're right at 38%. We could play better on third downs. No question the last game. But we had an opportunity to, I think, and didn't.
I tell the kids all the time, Offenses practice, too. The good thing about it is at one time here, 17 points, I probably could have run for mayor (smiling). Now everybody is, You're frustrated. Yeah, we left a few points on the field. At the same time, I pay attention to two stats when the game is over, really three. One is big plays, which we only allowed them one play over 20 yards on Saturday. The other one is third downs, which we could have played a little better. But the ultimate stat still on defensive football is how many points you give up. 17 points, that's our goal, hold everybody to 17 points or less. That's extremely tough. Realistically if we hold people to around 24, you have a chance to win the ballgame at the end of the game.
That's where we're at.
Q. How good can your defense be?
COACH CLAEYS: For the teams we play and the way we're built, I think we have a chance to, like obviously in today's game, I don't like to rely on turnovers. For one, you're a bad defense, you get turnovers. I'm pleased with the turnovers. We're playing pretty good defense, plus we're getting the turnovers. Not like the turnovers are always bailing us out.
If we continue to play good defense and get the turnovers, I think we can be really good by the end of the year, for the teams we play against. We're built for a lot of those teams.
The difficult ones, again, you play Ohio State, you play Wisconsin. Even the Iowa game, Nebraska. We haven't played very many teams that come downhill at us. Been a lot of spread teams.
How well we play will be how well we play those teams.
Q. Have you adjusted that 17 point goal over the years?
COACH CLAEYS: It's been 17 points. Coach, we have a meeting, everybody is like, Oh, you know. We tell our kids all the time, the goals that we have, like the 17, if you hold a team to 17 points or less, you do that all year, you're going to be close to the top 10 defense in the country, at least in the top 15. If you hold them to 24, you're going to be somewhere around 25 to 30, which isn't bad.
But I still believe in the whole idea it's better to over demand than under demand. You get better results.
Q. (No microphone.)
COACH CLAEYS: That's what's changed in all of football. It used to be I'd assume they'd cram everybody in a telephone booth, let's run it downhill, make tackles in the box. Hey, if they complete a play action pass over the top every now and then. I used to hate going against no huddle, spread it, throw it all over. Now you see the no huddle, spread it, throw it all over all the time. We practice it all the time. We don't huddle.
Now it's the two backs and they add a gap on you, with the fullback or linemen, you don't get a lot of work against that anymore. That's why I think people are having trouble with Iowa this year. Iowa is doing a good job on offense. They're scoring some more points. The teams that stick with that and are able to stay good at it are going to create problems for people.
Q. (No microphone.)
COACH CLAEYS: Yeah, but that's because of the spread and the way the game is going. If we were playing more two back, two tight ends like Iowa, we would recruit a lot more linebackers and probably a little thicker kids than what we are.
With the way the game is going now, you have to be able to make plays in space.
Q. Coach said you had high praise for Mitch when he was running the scout team.
COACH CLAEYS: Yes. He never lost his cool. When you're the scout team quarterback your first year, you get pushed around a little bit. When you run the huddle, D linemen come in and shove you. I don't know how many times Mitch would take the ball, put it back in their face, get right after them.
Very competitive kid. Loves the game of football. Did a great job with the scout team, which isn't always the could always move the ball. The more he goes, the more comfortable he gets. I just look forward to him getting better and better all the time.
Q. Wisconsin and Northwestern game, seemed like the difference was tackling. What makes you guys good tacklers?
COACH CLAEYS: I think you can make a kid a better tackler. We do some tackling drills, okay? But this is my opinion, not everybody will agree with it: If a kid's not a very good tackler in high school, he's not going to be a very good tackler in college. Not that you can't make him a little better. But recruiting a good athlete who can tackle is a lot funner than trying to teach somebody how to tackle.
That's basically been our belief. The kid misses a lot of tackles on video in high school, that's why we just don't watch highlight tapes, we watch the whole game. If you watch the highlight tape, that's all you're going to see is that kid making tackles.
If they don't tackle very well in high school, they're not going to tackle very well in college. I think a lot of that has to do with good players. Not that we don't do tackling drills, but not a lot. Just get better athletes.
Q. Coach said he was impressed with Purdue's offensive line. How do you think their D line is going to hold up?
COACH CLAEYS: It will be a little bit of a challenge because they are bigger. They play with a chip on their shoulder, they really do. They move people. They get after you for four quarters.
It will be a good challenge for us up front. I think they are better than the last two teams we played offensively in the Big Ten as far as their offensive line goes. It will be a challenge for us up front to keep our pads down and not give up movement. The backs are good. You give the backs a very good crease, very much space, they do a great job.
Q. Where have you seen the improvement from Jalen from last year to this year?
COACH CLAEYS: One is his game preparation. Could still get better. What I like about Jalen, we'll go out and practice today. You know, he'll cover who he's supposed to, he'll miss an assignment here or there. Boy, as the game gets closer, he gets a lot more locked in, a lot more focused.
But he enjoys practice. You could do a little bit better job on Tuesdays mentally getting ready to go. By the time you get to Thursday, he's got it figured out. He likes to play the game. We get to Thursday, you won't have very many mistakes at all. Saturday, he's a whole different kid when it comes to game day.
Q. Did he start at safety with you guys?
COACH CLAEYS: He's always been at corner for us. Jalen's problem is that we had two or three of the things, the frustrating things, going back to earlier, there's three downs on there where we weren't used to being back to no huddle. We thought we were playing Michigan again. We made some big plays. All of a sudden, you know, they're turning around trying to ramp the crowd up. Northwestern is ready to snap the ball. We screwed up once with communication things there because the noise of the crowd. We lost that focus. That's one thing. You play a no huddle team, you got to be ready to go. That caused a couple of our mistakes, having a little bit too much fun between the snaps, worrying about the crowd.
He was one of them. He's enjoying the game, playing hard, having fun. But no huddle team, you don't get to celebrate till you get to the sidelines. He forgot that from the Michigan game.
Thank you.
An interview with:
COACH MATT LIMEGROVER
Q. Coach talked a lot about how Mitch might feel more comfortable now. Do you think having Chandler Harnish around has helped?
COACH LIMEGROVER: Yeah, I don't think it hurt, that's for sure. What impressed me about Chandler being around was I hadn't had a chance to talk to him for a while. To be able to sit down and talk with him, see how his experiences have matured him. I think that was rubbing off. There's such a confidence with that kid. I think when he's around our other quarterbacks, really around the team, I think there's a very good positive influence.
I definitely don't think it hurts when he's around and interacting with our guys, for sure.
Q. What do you see as Connor's role on the offensive line? Do you see him getting more into that rotation?
COACH LIMEGROVER: Yeah, we played him with the idea that he's going to continue to get reps. We know that we're heading in, we're at the halfway point. I'm not going to say it only gets tougher, because I don't want to disrespect the teams we play, but it definitely doesn't get any easier.
We're banged up. We felt like he's a kid that could help us. We're going to continue to escalate that development and keep bringing him along and continue to get him reps.
Q. Is it a tough decision to take a redshirt of a kid?
COACH LIMEGROVER: It's never easy. It's never done just on a whim or fancy type of thing. It's something there's a lot of thought put in, a lot of discussion. We felt like, particularly Coach Kill and I, we talked about it, ultimately Coach Kill makes that final decision, but we felt like it was the time to get him going.
Q. Has he been about what he thought you would be or has he exceeded that?
COACH LIMEGROVER: He's actually exceeded what I thought he might be. Being a kid coming from a smaller level school, didn't know exactly what we were going to get. We knew the physical part, but just the technique and mentality and mind frame. He's been great. Very coachable kid.
That's what has allowed us getting comfortable with him and getting him into the game. You're going to see more and more of him. He was able to get that one out of the way. Laughing and joking about it on Sunday.
Q. Did you run more play-action on Saturday?
COACH LIMEGROVER: More than normal? Yeah, probably. You know, I think that's a tough question. I think if you've kind of been around, you know we're a take what they give you type of group and felt the play actions we ran on Saturday was what we were going to get. We knew we had it so we knew we were going to throw it. In that sense it was more the normal because we knew what they were going to give us.
Q. (No microphone.)
COACH LIMEGROVER: Oh, absolutely. I mean, plays off each other in a big way. We're at the point, and we try and do this all the time, but it doesn't always work out, you know, there's things that we feel very good about in the run game that for whatever reason, whether protection or the way they're playing in the secondary, sometimes you would think, Oh, it's obvious you run this play, then you have a play action off of it, all is well.
Sometimes it doesn't quite fit, and you would think it would, but it doesn't. One of the things we try to make sure we do all the time, one thing we don't do is, Let's just roll the dice and see what happens. As much as we can, we want to make sure that people are blocked, want to make sure that things are in place. We're not big on rolling the dice and putting people in peril just because they may or may not do something.
A lot of times it doesn't quite match up. But we knew running the play actions we did, we knew that was a good matchup protection wise what we were running in the game and route wise what we were able to get. That's why we were able to hit that a little more even on some of the third downs.
Q. When you and Jerry first got together and put together an offense, what were some of those factors and influences in saying, This is the way we want to play?
COACH LIMEGROVER: I think it goes way back to even before I started working with him. Coach has always been a clock management, ball control, stay away from the big mistakes, the big turnovers, back in his days with split back veer option when he was at Pittsburg State, Saginaw Valley State. When I joined him, I had more of the pro style background, throwing the ball more, those things.
But as we've been together looking at what we can do, with the personnel we have, then who we want to be, that's how that things that morphed. Bigger than sitting in a room all by yourself and saying, What do we want to be offensively? I think that's a real good quality that Coach Kill has, he makes sure it's all brought together. He doesn't want us going off in one direction at the expense of the bigger picture for the team. That's always a factor with us. We bring it back into that, is we want to play good team football. We don't want to be that team we were at TCU, turning the ball over four or five times, putting our defense in with their backs up against the goal line over and over again. We saw the results of that.
That's a big foundation point for us as far as moving forward offensively.
Q. What is the target number on offense if on defense it's 17?
COACH LIMEGROVER: 18 (laughter). We'd like to score in the 30s. One of the interesting things is, we're not doing that. We need to. We're constantly working on improving, finding ways to do that.
We talk in the 27, 28 point range. It gives us a little bit of leeway on both sides. Maybe if the defense gets overshot by something or we get a little bit under, then you're talking about that 24 point range one way or the other.
We try and score. We want to score four offensive touchdowns every ballgame. One of the things we've talked about is obviously it's every week we're working on trying to find ways to get big plays and create some of those big plays.
Q. Talk about Mitch's development.
COACH LIMEGROVER: I think probably one of the biggest things that has helped Mitch was not playing in the San Jose State game. There was a lot of pressure put on that kid. He kind of took it even more as far as that whole weight of the world on his shoulders. I think with him not being able to play in the San Jose State game, we still won the game, I think there was kind of an 'aha' moment like, okay, I don't have to do this all myself. He literally was like a different young man when we went to Michigan as far as just how he was on game day, how he was in the huddle, his demeanor game day, the enjoyment of it. He was out there having fun. That carried over to last week. Then there was that confidence.
We felt excited for him when we would call pass plays because we knew this was stuff he felt good about, was feeling good and confident. We've seen that. Now our job is we're just in there today saying, What can we continue to do with what Purdue is giving us that can keep him in that good frame of mind, good so to speak.
Q. How did it feel watching the corner post routes he was throwing?
COACH LIMEGROVER: It was fun. It was fun because there was a tremendous amount of confidence in calling those because you could just see from the very first time he dropped back and threw it that he's feeling it, he's feeling good.
Being in this as long as I have now, all the way through, you can sometimes tell when a guy is not quite sure or he's pressing or what have you. You didn't see that from Mitch. So that was exciting to see. Then that also makes things a little easier calling the game and being able to figure out, Okay, let's set this up a couple plays ahead, knowing you want to get back to that stuff.
Q. The one to Maxx, was that a new ripple?
COACH LIMEGROVER: Yes and no. We just try and find different ways. It actually was the same type of route that we hit him on against Penn State last year when we took it to the field.
Are you talking about the one in the middle?
Q. Yes.
COACH LIMEGROVER: All that was, that was the same screen we threw against Michigan to David. It was the same thing. Lead blocker, swung David, dumped it to him. It was pretty easy for the guys up front. Now it's a different weapon in the screen game we could hit.
I was thinking about the wheel we threw to him. That's one that we threw that was a complement or in the same family as what we did against Penn State and scored.
Q. What does it mean for a guy like Isaac to have an impact? You have younger receivers who are still trying to figure it out.
COACH LIMEGROVER: You know what, I'm glad you brought that up. I couldn't be more happy for him. He's a young man, it isn't easy sometimes being a senior wide receiver, not being a guy that's getting many balls, per se. To hang in there and not only kind of go through the motions or just be there, but it was Thursday and he was a guy in the huddle, we were lagging a little bit doing some things. He was the one getting after guys, We need to pick up the intensity, this isn't good enough.
I'm real happy he was able to have some success because he's a kid that stayed it in 100%, hadn't gone the other way, really a young man who deserves that and more. Very happy for him. That was a nice side light to the day, for sure.
Thank you.
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