Iceland12
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On preparing for Minnesota's rushing game:
"We worked a lot on fundamentals last week. You watch the Wisconsin or Nebraska football games and we've played against arguably the best in the country at running back. They're the same at Minnesota. They are very strong as a Coach (Jerry) Kill football program. I've coached against Coach Kill when he was at Northern Illinois for a year. He's got a good football program and some well-proven veterans that are playing from him and they're doing a great job. We're going to have to take care of what we take care of and that's swarming to the football, making sure that we tackle and get off blocks. That's very important this game."
On Coach Kill:
"Coach Kill is a great individual. I've enjoyed my time coaching against him in both conferences, the MAC and, of course, the Big Ten. I think he's done a very good job of being able to fit; being able to recruit to what Minnesota can recruit with and to, also, his offensive scheme. That comes a lot with the continuity (off his staff)."
On preparing for different offenses:
"Lately, we've faced so many running football teams like Wisconsin and Nebraska. Now, Nebraska is a little bit more spread, where they spread you out and run the football, but Nebraska is a `pound-it' type football program same as Minnesota. One thing that I thought we did pretty well against Wisconsin is we took them out of their two-back offense. They really beat us on the one-back offense with the two tight ends on the football field and what Minnesota does is very similar to what Wisconsin does. They'll be in a two-back set with a true fullback, a transfer from Butler Junior College, and then they'll also be in the two tight end stuff. Their tight ends are very athletic and I think they do a great job with utilizing the things they do well from blocking to getting them involved in their passing attack."
http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102014aaa.html
"We worked a lot on fundamentals last week. You watch the Wisconsin or Nebraska football games and we've played against arguably the best in the country at running back. They're the same at Minnesota. They are very strong as a Coach (Jerry) Kill football program. I've coached against Coach Kill when he was at Northern Illinois for a year. He's got a good football program and some well-proven veterans that are playing from him and they're doing a great job. We're going to have to take care of what we take care of and that's swarming to the football, making sure that we tackle and get off blocks. That's very important this game."
On Coach Kill:
"Coach Kill is a great individual. I've enjoyed my time coaching against him in both conferences, the MAC and, of course, the Big Ten. I think he's done a very good job of being able to fit; being able to recruit to what Minnesota can recruit with and to, also, his offensive scheme. That comes a lot with the continuity (off his staff)."
On preparing for different offenses:
"Lately, we've faced so many running football teams like Wisconsin and Nebraska. Now, Nebraska is a little bit more spread, where they spread you out and run the football, but Nebraska is a `pound-it' type football program same as Minnesota. One thing that I thought we did pretty well against Wisconsin is we took them out of their two-back offense. They really beat us on the one-back offense with the two tight ends on the football field and what Minnesota does is very similar to what Wisconsin does. They'll be in a two-back set with a true fullback, a transfer from Butler Junior College, and then they'll also be in the two tight end stuff. Their tight ends are very athletic and I think they do a great job with utilizing the things they do well from blocking to getting them involved in their passing attack."
http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102014aaa.html
