Kent Smith was a huge threat, running and passing. He's a huge threat offensively. |
Mike has done a tremendous job over the past two seasons as a graduate assistant on both sides of the ball. His familiarity with and loyalty toward the program make him a great asset to Miami football as he takes over as our tight ends coach. |
Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game. |
Now you see MAC teams playing a lot of Big Ten teams tough. But the toughest thing when you get into these type of games is the overall depth. Recruiting-wise they still get, most the time, who they want. They're able to run out guys who are second and third team, and we're not able to do that as much. Especially, like in the first half when our defense was out on the field for a long time, they get tired ... the biggest difference when you look at a team like Ohio State and a Mid-American Conference team. |
The difference in it is there are no open weeks. After the first game on a Thursday, we play on nine straight Saturdays. |
The winning coaches get Reds tickets. |
They are similar to us in that they lost an early season game they thought they'd win. It's the same type of game for both of us. If you lose another game, you could be out of it. |
They could have felt sorry for themselves, being down two players, or they could have come out fighting, and that's what they did. |
This game had a lot of momentum changes. We had chances to grasp control early, but we let them hang in there, and they made some plays. We shot ourselves in the foot in the second half. |
This was a game we've been looking for. We really hadn't put a complete game together yet. |
We can't make the mental mistakes, and we can't make the easy physical mistakes. |
We did not tackle well today and we gave up too many big plays. |
We gave up too many big plays. We didn't tackle. |
We needed our running game to step. We talked about it all week, we struggled with it at times, but if people are going to play us cover two, take away our receivers and leave seven in the box, we have got to be able to run the ball. If you can't run the ball, you're not going to be successful. |
We play, it seems, like every day of the week. |