I just told the guys, ‘Hey, this one’s over with and we have a big one to play next weekend.’ We get to play next week and I give Miami credit; they came ready to play on Senior Day. It’s not easy when you go on the road and that’s a good football team.
Do you think it was a factor of you guys being focused all year long on winning the Coastal and then week after week to win four in a row and then it’s just kind of a natural letdown kind of thing?
Narduzzi: You know, I don’t know. I’d hate to say that. God, we tried to coach against that all week. I heard a couple guys afterward in the locker room say, ‘Coach, some guys were looking past this.’ If you put the tape on, I don’t know how you look past them unless you want to get your tail beat in. I hope that’s the reason; if you’re going to take it, I’d rather that be the reason than we just flat-out didn’t execute.
But we weren’t disciplined in the first half - seven penalties to zero. Just some stuff that we have to clean up and it’s the same thing that we did last week; I thought we’d come out and clean it up in the second half and then we start off in the first series and have two more penalties offensively. It’s tough to get a drive going with that.
Do you think it was a factor of you guys being focused all year long on winning the Coastal and then week after week to win four in a row and then it’s just kind of a natural letdown kind of thing?
Narduzzi: You know, I don’t know. I’d hate to say that. God, we tried to coach against that all week. I heard a couple guys afterward in the locker room say, ‘Coach, some guys were looking past this.’ If you put the tape on, I don’t know how you look past them unless you want to get your tail beat in. I hope that’s the reason; if you’re going to take it, I’d rather that be the reason than we just flat-out didn’t execute.
But we weren’t disciplined in the first half - seven penalties to zero. Just some stuff that we have to clean up and it’s the same thing that we did last week; I thought we’d come out and clean it up in the second half and then we start off in the first series and have two more penalties offensively. It’s tough to get a drive going with that.
