Weekly Press Conference Transcript, Player Video – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/27/2009 12:00:00 AM | Football
COACH TRESSEL: Okay. Lori, last question. Clay, are you feeling better?
REPORTER: Feeling great.
COACH TRESSEL: Great. Okay. I’ve got to get my award winners, sometimes I forget to bring that out for you.
REPORTER: Oh, no, you never do.
COACH TRESSEL: It was good to get back home for Homecoming. It was good to get a victory in the conference and take a step forward. We had three award winners, special units, Etienne Sabino, Etienne is on three of our units, made three kickoff tackles inside the 20, he’s done a heck of a job doing whatever needs to be done and keeps progressing as a linebacker as well but he was awarded with the special units player.
Thaddeus Gibson was the defensive player of the week. Thaddeus is an excellent football player and I think the conference named him as the co-Big Ten defensive player as well. And Thaddeus is a guy that he is constantly at that facility. He is studying film. He’s in that weight room. He’s a committed young guy. He’s a good leader. He’s the only member of the team in my coaching of football class and sits in the front row, so I can report to you from that standpoint. Just a good football player and was very disruptive Saturday against the Gophers.
Offensively, Terrelle Pryor was the offensive player. As you know, he threw for 239 and rushed for 100 and some and something that’s only been done three times in our history, which a guy rushing for more than 100 and throwing for more than 200, did an excellent job. He, too, is very committed and at that facility and watching film and exceeding like crazy and was awarded the offensive player of the week.
Jimmy Cordle was the Jim Parker offensive lineman of the week. Jimmy played tackle, played center. I think he’s played every position except for right guard or something he says and he would like to get a couple snaps there so he can get the trifecta, but it was good getting Jimmy back because we lost Mike Adams and probably won’t have Mike for, I would say, at least two more games. So Jimmy stepped in and Mike Brewster had been limping around for a couple weeks so he took a lot of snaps at center and he’s a smart football player and I’m glad he’s with us.
Our attack force player of the week was Doug Worthington. Doug has been steady all season. I think some of the things that defensively our guys went to, to really feature Thaddeus and Doug and what they do best, Dexter Larimore, what he does best, I thought they did a good job of kind of changing their scheme, and Doug, I think, has benefited from that as much as anyone. He’s been a great leader and just a very, very solid football player and he got the attack force player. The scout team players of the week, K. C. Christian on the special teams and Nate Ebner on the defense. Nate Ebner is a young guy that just came to us this past winter and has made a couple of our special teams and really a heck of an athlete and really making a consideration. He has been a big plus on this football team.
And then the offensive player scout team player was Ricky Crawford. Ricky’s a wide receiver that just works like crazy and just a great kid from right here at Olentangy and just a heck of a football player.
As you know, the Minnesota game was kind of a tale of two halves. I thought we came out and did some good things in the first half but we didn’t finish things. Got the ball on about the eight-yard line and drove it the length of the field and then came up empty after a missed field goal and later on in the half drove it the length of the field and came up empty with the turnover. So we head into the half with a 7-0 game.
Defensively we were playing real solid. I’m sure Minnesota was affected with the loss of Decker, and you hope that he’s not out real long because he’s a great, great player, but then when the second half started, just like we always talk about, the two things we talk about the most which are special teams and turnovers happened on one play. And we chose to go against the wind and see if we could hang tough for the third quarter and then gain that advantage in the fourth quarter and so we decided to pooch it up in the air and see if we could put one up there hard to handle and Aaron Pettrey put a perfect kick up. The guy he was kicking at was actually a defensive end so that guy kind of moved out of the way and the deep guy had an awfully long run in a very difficult kick and we came up with the ball. And our offense was opportunistic which was critical to get in the end zone and we got a couple turnovers and one thing after another and we had a good wind.
So it was a good step for us. I think the reality we sit in right now is here we are in late October, we have goals that we have in mind, we have progression we would like to make and we know we have a very, very short time to do that. We’ve got a football game here that’s a nonconference game which is a little bit unusual for our guys. We haven’t done a whole bunch of that this late in the season but what’s most critical is starting with today’s practice, we get better at what we do because we’ve got a short time to — you think about our seniors and they’ve only got a couple more times in Ohio Stadium and four more football games and those four or five years are gone and the same is true for this team in this season. And so our guys, I think, have the right perspective, the understanding that we had a good win, it wasn’t a perfect win, there’s a whole lot more we’ve got to do better and it’s got to start this week.
New Mexico State is in a transition mode. We’ve played a couple teams that are in that world that with the new coaching staff in the midst of developing relationships within their coaching staff and their team and New Mexico State in particular brought in a number of new players on their team so they’re still growing and trying to figure out who they are and they’ve had two different quarterbacks playing.
I happen to be very aware of DeWayne Walker, I don’t know him, but I’ve met him. He did a good job at UCLA. You can see as you watch the film that the guys are being taught the things that need to be done to become a successful football team. I think they have a do you mean dangerous return guys. I thought one of the keys last week was that we didn’t let Number 11 make a difference in the game.
Our kickoff coverage team did a good job and we did a good job with our hang time on our punts and so forth, and we’re going to need to do the same thing from a special teams standpoint this week because I think both their kickoff returner, Number 23, I don’t know their names that well, and Number 10 back there on punts, our are guys that can change a game. They’re guys that can give you a burst when you might need it the most. So most of our discussions begin with the thing that the team does as a whole and the staff does as a will whole and that’s the special teams.
And of course defensively we’ve got to prepare ourselves for a group that probably deploys a little bit different than what we’ve been seeing. They’re in two backs, two tights a decent amount. They’re in two tights, two wides. They do spread it out a little bit, but maybe not as much as some teams do it. Two different quarterbacks, two different styles. So our defense has got to be on task as to what needs to be the situation and how we go after them, how we try to affect those quarterbacks.
And offensively they’re a man-to-man team, pressure receivers, blitz probably, I don’t know, half the time perhaps, and they like to — they like to run, they like to do the things that Coach Walker did when he was the defensive coordinator at UCLA, so we’ve got to prepare ourselves for those types of things. And all the while, we’ve got to keep getting better at the fundamental things that will give us a chance to become a good football team.
So it’s a crucial week like they all are, but sometimes when you’re at this juncture in the season at this point, when you only have — we practice three days a week, so you’re down to a dozen practices or so, we’ve got a lot of work to do to become the football team that we believe that we can become.
REPORTER: Coach, you mentioned Mike Adams and his situation. Just if you could, bring us up to date on Brandon Saine, Boom Herron, Dexter Larimore, is there any hope this week or next week that they’ll get back into playing?
COACH TRESSEL: Mike Adams, I would say no to that this week or next week. Dexter Larimore, I would say, we’ll have to see how he does. He’s going to be able to practice some this week. Boom Herron, we’ll have to see this week. I would call him questionable for this week, which I don’t know what that means for next week. Brandon Saine won’t be able to have contact today. It’s just part of the procedure in his type of injury. He’ll be able to have a lot of cardio work and if he progresses there, I’d like to think he’ll be cleared. Orhian Johnson is in a similar situation as Brandon Saine. Who did I miss there? I’m not smart enough to get those five-pronged questions. Did we get them all?
REPORTER: Some of your offensive linemen are a little banged up, Brewster, Cordle.
COACH TRESSEL: About the only one that isn’t is Bryant Browning. I think J.B. is a little healthier, he had a bruised ankle for a while. Andrew Miller is much healthier, I think Michael Brewster is healthier than he was. I think Justin Boren, when they give us those medical reports, I don’t know what a lot of those things mean, but then he’s out there blocking, so I think they’re okay.
REPORTER: That’s pretty much your whole starting lineup across the front, how much has that hindered you progress-wise on the front there?
COACH TRESSEL: I think individually if you believe in practice and if you believe in being healthy and being able to do things the way that you would like to do them, then you’d like — you’d have to believe that it’s hindered the progress of those guys. I don’t know if I have the ability to say how that has hindered the progress of the whole, but in spring practice, we always say, man, if you could get those 15 practices, you’re going to get better.
Preseason is so critical, you have 29 practices, you have a chance to get better. When you miss any of those, it hinders your progress, you as the person. I suppose as every individual’s progress is hindered, hence the group might be, but, you know, every team in America has got ankles and plantar fascia and all brachial plexuses and all the things that they tell us, Paul, you liked that one, didn’t you?
REPORTER: Yeah, that was good.
REPORTER: But everybody hasn’t started three left tackles, you know what I mean?
COACH TRESSEL: Right.
REPORTER: Just as a group, that’s the one group I think you want to be like a kick line or something, you know? I mean a dance line, excuse me. You know what I’m asking.
COACH TRESSEL: Got me on that one.
REPORTER: Has it hurt you from a chemistry standpoint?
COACH TRESSEL: Is that why you moved over there, Ken? You’re through with him? Those guys it helps to work together. I’ve heard Jim Lachey talk often that you get to the point where you can just feel what the other guy is going to do, even a grunt means something. So, yeah, you need as much time together — but so do the quarterbacks and the receivers or the linebackers and the secondary. It is what it is, it is what it was, here’s where we are, we’ve got to get better.
REPORTER: Is it somewhat difficult that your players have kind of gotten into a rhythm, you’re five games into the Big Ten and caught up in a race and then all of a sudden you kind of take this race where you’re not involved in a conference game, you’ve got those three big games waiting out there, do you think it’s difficult from a player’s standpoint?
COACH TRESSEL: I hope not. I wish I knew. I hope that they do understand that the progress we make or we don’t make will affect the next time we play when we get back in the conference. They seem to be a group that is willing to take instruction and if it’s reasonable, if it makes some sense, yeah, it makes some sense, we need to get better, well, let’s go get better. I don’t think that’s going to disrupt us.
REPORTER: From a coaching standpoint, is it easier when you play four nonconference games to kind of build up to a Big Ten race where then you play eight in a row?
COACH TRESSEL: I suppose that would be the ideal.
REPORTER: That’s preferable.
COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, that would be the ideal thing. But when they went to 12 games and all the holes in your conference and the inventory for those first four weeks, there’s only so many teams and only so many games available. In our particular case, this year’s the last year, but we had limited weekends, and so we had to go 12 straight weekends. So you had to find someone who could fit perfectly into October 31st, 2009, and that was hard to do. So we’re grateful for the fact that we could find a game. Most especially we could find a game home, because that’s critical for our athletic department, so we’re not going to say we wish it had — it were a different way. We’re just going to go to work against the Aggies.
REPORTER: How much of your philosophy in terms of guys that might be borderline to play, maybe Brandon or someone else this week might be, how much do you take into effect the opponent, the fact it’s an opponent you’re expected to beat?
COACH TRESSEL: Not at all. Not at all. If Brandon Saine is cleared, Brandon’s playing. If Orhian Johnson’s cleared, he’s going to play. If Boom Herron is cleared, he’s going to play. We need — this is an important game, that’s one thing. We need to get better. That’s just as important. So the best chance you have to get better is on Saturdays. Practices are critical. It’s at a certain level, but it’s not at the level that a game is, playing in front of the fans and the excitement and the energy, so, no, if a guy can play, if he’s allowed to play, he’s going to play.
REPORTER: You were critical of yourself the way the team perhaps overlooked Purdue, is that memory enough that you don’t have to say anything this week around against a team that you’re overwhelmingly favorites or do you maybe change anything how you do this week so that doesn’t happen again?
COACH TRESSEL: Well, we have different data out there. We have the fact that maybe we didn’t do as well as we could have collectively a couple weeks ago. We weren’t perfect last week, we’ve got plenty of film to show that. I think as the moments get less, the awareness, you hope, grows and everyone talks about being focused and so forth. To me, focused is having a moment-by moment awareness of what needs to be done. I don’t feel like we did a great job of having that focus or awareness a couple weeks ago. Never one bit wanted to take anything away from Purdue because Purdue did what you have to do. They got five takeaways, they did this and they did that. But having that focus and that awareness of what needs to be done right now, on whatever this is, the 27th or whatever of October, if we have an understanding of what needs to be done today, we go do that as well as we can do it, then we can move on and do the same on the 28th and 31st and on beyond.
REPORTER: Was Terrelle more relaxed against Minnesota in your opinion? He talked a lot last week, he said he felt more relaxed than he ever had, did you think he was more relaxed on the field?
COACH TRESSEL: I think as you grow in your experiences and are able to assess your own experiences, you do become more relaxed and we talk and talk and talk about the effects of a turnover or a missed tackle or it’s not just all about the quarterback, and that’s discussion and that makes sense and we can show examples of that, but sometimes when it happens, it becomes even more real, more deeply understood. I think when you more deeply understand something, you become more relaxed, in the realities of it, so I think as much as you hate to say it, the adverse things that happen, sometimes in life are very, very valuable. I thought because things moved along fairly well in our game, that helps your relaxation.
Minnesota was a team that they’re going to blitz all over the place and we did a pretty good job of not having problems with that and progressed with the ball. Had pretty good balance. So that helps you be relaxed as well.
REPORTER: How did he grade out? Did he grade a winning performance?
COACH TRESSEL: No, not quite. His decision-making grade was very close to a winning performance. Just got to do some of the little things, but we’re getting there. We’re working.
REPORTER: What were you more upset about on the interception before half, his decision or the actual throw? It looked like he had plenty of time.
COACH TRESSEL: From where I was standing, I didn’t have enough information to know which, I just knew that we threw an interception. It looked to me from where I was standing, it could have been a little further outside, it seemed a little behind. When you watched the film, if he would have thrown it outside, there was a defender coming from the other side, so I think if you asked him he would tell you that he was most disappointed with the decision because he felt like he threw it where it had to be to stay away from that defender, but at the end of the day, he felt that he shouldn’t have thrown it. And now as I’ve watched on film, I would concur with that. But he knew why he threw it where he threw it, because he could see the corner who was sinking and I couldn’t from where I was.
REPORTER: Coming off the day you had with Purdue, was he tentative in a way?
COACH TRESSEL: I don’t like too many throws where they don’t think about it too much. It’s not what I root for. I’m probably pleased about A, why he put it where he did and B, he knew what he needed to do, but, no, I don’t think he was tentative in the game. I thought he made some real good decisions, it’s third and two and maybe there’s a little bit more I can get out there, but let me go get the two and little things like that. I thought he progressed, but so did other guys. Again, we talk so much about one position but I thought some people across the board did some good things.
REPORTER: Going into this game with Jordan and Jermil possibly as your running backs, did you learn anything about Jermil or was it hard to evaluate?
COACH TRESSEL: That was the end of the game and emotionally our opponent wasn’t like they were at the beginning of the game, but that doesn’t lessen the fact that he did a good job. We of course feel better about Jermil being in the game now after having seen him carry it seven or eight times. Jordan we’ve always felt fine. Jordan’s a good back. Jamaal Berry might even get some work this week, he’s back on the active full practice roster.
So the thoughts of going into the game and it’s Jordan and Jermil, I’m a little nervous about that, that’s awfully thin because what that tells me is that Brandon and Boom aren’t allowed to play. And so you might be thrust into a difficult situation with a guy like Jamaal because he’s a game that’s like what, game eight or nine? Nine? Do you spend a year at this point? The answer’s no if Boom and Brandon and Jordan and Jermil are ready. It all of a sudden we’re down to one of those four, the answer is yes even if it’s game 12, so you have to find out what the situation is.
REPORTER: Do you know much about one of their quarterbacks, Trevor Walls?
COACH TRESSEL: Don’t know much about him, no. I know he’s shared time. They’ve each thrown the ball a little bit less than a 100 times. I think Flemming might have started the first three or four games and then the rivalry game is the one where Trevor came in and started and won the big one there, and then Flemming came back and Walls came and I don’t know who started last week because I haven’t watched, our impression was it was not more our Ohio guy, it was Flemming.
REPORTER: They both played.
COACH TRESSEL: But I’m not sure who started. I think they both played.
REPORTER: You never saw him in a camp or anything that you recall?
COACH TRESSEL: That I recall, no.
REPORTER: Jim, you guys are 40-point favorites in this thing.
COACH TRESSEL: We haven’t got 40 points very often, so —
REPORTER: When you look at them on film, does that surprise you when you hear it’s that big?
COACH TRESSEL: You know, A, usually I don’t know that information, so glad that you brought it to my attention. You know, I don’t know. I don’t give any thought to that. I’m sure that there have been times where we have lived up to whatever was supposed and times where we haven’t and I’m sure what it was had nothing to do with us doing that, so I don’t give that any thought.
REPORTER: Do you treat this, though, as more like the season opener, something where you definitely will go in and try to play Bauserman, try to play guys in critical moments?
COACH TRESSEL: No, this is game nine. We’ve got to progress. Now, that doesn’t mean Joe won’t play, I don’t mean that. But I’m not sitting here today saying, you know what, I think we’ll put this guy in or that guy in. No, we’re going out all barrels blazing and do what the situation calls for.
REPORTER: Jim, I think we all saw that the offensive line seemed to play better last week. Have there been times this year where you’ve had to adjust what you’ve wanted to do as an offense with personnel groupings or play callings because maybe you needed to help the offensive line a little bit or do something that if protection’s not there, you’re maybe limited in what you can do?
COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, I think you go into most every game finding out how they’re going to play up front. You know, are they going to be just stout against the run and be limited on their pass rush, just play their hats low and say, hey, you’re not running so you might as well start passing or they’re going to play whatever you end up doing. I thought if you look at the first — I think it was the first two series, I’m not sure we moved them much. But then I thought we did a pretty good job of getting outside and misdirect passing a little bit. And I think that helped the offensive line, but if the defensive line knows that, hey, all you’re going to do is line up and we’ll see if we can knock you backwards, most defensive lines in America, you’re not going to be able to do that if they think and know that’s what you’re going to do. So we always try to do things to help our guys up front with the run/pass balance. Not always protect the same way, you know, if they know where the quarterback is going to be standing, it’s a lot easier to rush the passer. If you watch teams that play against us, very seldom do they launch from the same spot, because if they did, our defensive line isn’t going to find that. So, yes, absolutely we do all we can to help our guys up front.
REPORTER: On Terrelle’s second touchdown pass to Posey, play action out of the eye, what impressed you most just about the way he handled that play? He set up right, he seemed calm, what did you like most about it?
COACH TRESSEL: Was it the one heading to the north end or the south end?
REPORTER: The south end.
COACH TRESSEL: The one heading to the south end? The nice thing was is we had tremendous protection and he had a chance to just look it over and really where he threw that touchdown was not where that play was designed, but he saw the field and he sent the ball out there and DeVier adjusted to the open spot. They kind of jumped the route that we’d hit Dane a couple times and their corner thought, well, I’m going to steal this one and Posey had a big hole out there and Terrelle saw the hole and laid the ball up. So that was well done in large part because there was no duress.
REPORTER: But was it indicative too, though, the receiver and the quarterback are also feeling each other’s game a little bit more?
COACH TRESSEL: Yeah, I think the longer they play, they’re both young kids, the longer they play, the better they’re going to get at improvising. Funny thing is, we look statistically at our plays and what consistency level and this and that, and there was one option right that went 18 yards to the left, if you remember, Terrelle cut way back. And we were laughing that, you know what, when you put that in the computer, it’s going to look like, boy, that play worked perfectly.
Well, there was a little improvisation because they overplayed where we were headed and he had the field vision to say, hey, they violated some gaps and some zones back there and here I go. So, yeah, I think the more they play, the more they’ll be able to do that.
REPORTER: Two years ago, Thad had disagreements with the coaching staff, thought about leaving the team, can you tell what he might have learned about that experience?
COACH TRESSEL: Patience. That’s a great thing for anyone to learn in whatever they’re involved in. And I think these young kids, whether they’re at Ohio State, New Mexico State, Minnesota, wherever they are, they’ve been recruited. They’ve been given the impression that their services are sorely needed and the world’s going to be wonderful if they’ll just come here. Well, the world isn’t wonderful anywhere to everyone’s liking and it’s maybe a lot more difficult and you get surprised a little bit and disappointed and impatient.
And we tease Thad all the time about how he was sitting on the stairs saying, I’m out of here, and a couple older guys put their arm around him and said, yeah, I was on the same stairs and you’ll be fine. But patience is a wonderful thing to learn.
REPORTER: Was it ever serious enough that you thought he might be leaving?
COACH TRESSEL: No. He didn’t have a car, I don’t think. A long walk to Euclid. Kids don’t hitchhike anymore. You’re giving your age right there.
REPORTER: What kind of grades do you give him in class?
COACH TRESSEL: Thaddeus? He has a little advantage in that every time we’re training table or whatever, I pop him some questions from the day’s lecture, so he’s started avoiding me because we put him on the spot in front of the coaches and the other players and ask him what are the three most important things a quarterback must do for the team or what’s the relevance of a strength and conditioning program to a football program and he has a midterm on Wednesday the 19th or 18th of November. I’ll be able to report back a little better, but he’s always in class, he’s always in the first row, so if you’re there, you’ve got a chance.
REPORTER: How many of your players in the past have taken your class?
COACH TRESSEL: Not many, we had a couple take it the first year or two and they got a couple C minuses and B minuses and the word got out that’s not the prof you want to take. The best student I had was Will Smith he played like he did as a football player. He was real serious, sat in the front row, worked like crazy and I think, don’t quote me, it might be FERPA laws or whatever, Will Smith might be the only one who got an A.
SHELLY POE: Cordle says he got an A.
COACH TRESSEL: A minus. A minus, Cordle. Maybe he did, I don’t know. But play along with me.
REPORTER: Does that intimidate people in the class at all?
COACH TRESSEL: No, but it was funny, yesterday in the lecture, usually I’ll take the first 10 or 12 minutes of the class and we’ll have a position coach and then one of our two coach emeritus and yesterday it happened to be Coach Cooper, so when Coach Cooper was getting up, talking a little bit about special teams yesterday, he prefaced his lecture with the fact that he asked the class a question, who do you think was the player of the game in Saturday’s game against Minnesota, and, you know, they bowed their heads like, you know, and he said, well, it was Thaddeus Gibson right here, we need to give him a round of applause and Thaddeus wanted to crawl under his desk. But they have fun.
REPORTER: Would you ever — Rusty was asking about the oddity of this game in the middle of the Big Ten season. Pac-10 plays a round-robin. I know that’s different, they have one less team. But the Big Ten playing every team, I know that would limit to only having two nonconference games with the way things are.
COACH TRESSEL: And the big problem with that is one team would only have — how does it work out? If we went to 10, if we went to 10 games —
REPORTER: One team would have to play nine.
COACH TRESSEL: One team would only have nine, something like that. And they’re going to rotate that team to be the team that had the poorest record in the last five years and all that stuff so unless you’ve played them all, which means automatically now you’ve got five away games and in a 12-game schedule, that would mean we would never have to have a series with USC or Texas or Miami, Florida or Cal, if whenever’s going to be able to afford to have the athletic department we have.
So I think the consensus at the moment, leadership always changes and things always change within conferences and the NCAA and everything else, but right now I think the consensus is that for the good of the athletic departments at the institutions, so as not to become too parochial, if all of a sudden you don’t play anyone from outside your world, you’re just kind of stuck in your own little world, you don’t have that national experience and exposure and so forth, right now I think the consensus is, we’ve got it the best way we can have it for an 11-team league.
Now, there’s all those discussions, do you want to go 12, do you want to do this, do you want to do that? I’m sure 10 years from now, it won’t be the way it is today. Don’t know how it will be. Really don’t care. Most interested in the Aggies, but we can have that discussion in May back when those discussions usually occur in the May meetings and that type of thing.
REPORTER: Jim, when you look back on the first half offensively, to go into halftime with seven points, what were your greatest concerns about that first half? Obviously you had the long drive in there that yielded no points, but —
COACH TRESSEL: It was disappointing when you have 270 some yards and seven points, and so you feel as if you did one of the cardinal things that you never want to do as an offense and that’s not be opportunistic, we had the opportunity to score points. How do you know how long that’s going to take? What’s going to happen the second half. Is there going to be a windstorm, rainstorm, whatever and you just missed the chance to put some points on the board.
Now, was I concerned that we weren’t going to be able to go out and do well? No, I thought we could keep moving. Then we got a head start. We got the ball on the 30, 25, I don’t know where it was. And then bang, and it started rolling, and we got great field position from then on out, but Big Ten games are tough games. Sometimes they break late, but sometimes they don’t break at all. Lori, one more because my A minus student is in the back.
REPORTER: Usually you say that when a team’s record or the statistics don’t reflect well on an opponent the solution is to turn on the game film. I’m wondering if you’ve ever been in the situation as a coach where the game film wasn’t good enough to tell your team that this was a challenge and what you did in that situation.
COACH TRESSEL: I think the challenge of scheme-wise making sure that you can adapt is enough to start with and then the more you watch a guy — it’s funny, I was talking to a recruit on the phone last night and he mentioned to me that his high school teammate was the starting corner for New Mexico State and he said, man, he’s good. I said, I was watching him a few hours last night, I said, was he fast in high school? He said, yeah, he ran ten seven. He looks like he can run ten seven. So I think the more you watch people, the more you can see what the challenges are shall but on the other hand, we try very hard to really focus in on what it is we have to do. That is most critical.
That will be the case in all those games in November too. We’ll be watching all those Big Ten teams like crazy, but it will still come down to what we do. And we have to focus on what we do. Scheme-wise, what is the intelligent thing to try to do so that we give our kids the best chance.
