TravisErickson
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- Aug 27, 2013
- Messages
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P.J. Fleck
As a team, we really have to learn from this. Physically, emotionally, mentally, we’ve got to learn from this.
The environment’s really special. That’s a no-brainer. Pouring down rain, 40-something degrees there’s 100,000 people here. That’s Michigan.
We’ve been in four rain delays the entire year, we’re really prepared for it.
This team needs to learn how to fail. They’re learning how to fail and how to respond to that.
I never question their effort. It’s one thing I love about our team, I never question their effort. They gave everything they had tonight, it just wasn’t good enough. We got beat by a better team. Period.
[Getting to a bowl] is not of importance to me. I’m the same guy who went 1-11 in year one my first year. We’re going to do what we have to do to make sure nothing compromises the culture...My focus is to get better tomorrow, more than we were today.
“We are where we are, and I’ve been through this before. We are exactly where we’re supposed to be, no matter anybody’s opinions or judgements...we got whooped. On the way to being a champion, on the way to being successful, you have to understand what it feels like to be whooped. And we got whooped.”
“We’re not strong enough. We’re one of the least experienced and youngest football teams...we had to go against these grown men over here...we got thrown around a lot today.”
Rodney Smith
“They’re a good defense. We knew they were going to make adjustments. They just did a good job on the interior of stopping what we wanted to do between the tackles.”
On Khaleke Hudson:
“Heck of a ball player. He did his job, made plays all over the field. He had a huge impact on the defense today.”
“We’re still playing for a lot. I think it’s important that guys keep that in mind. As players, we have to make sure everybody knows that. We can’t have things like we had happen tonight with Donnell. That’s not how we play football. The players will handle it. I’m sure the coaches will, too.”
Blake Cashman
I think it all comes to execution. I thought the coaches did a great job of getting us into a gameplan, we just didn’t execute well.
They broke a lot of tackles. That was ultimately what hurt us was we couldn't execute on tackling and they were able to break the big runs.
As a team, we really have to learn from this. Physically, emotionally, mentally, we’ve got to learn from this.
The environment’s really special. That’s a no-brainer. Pouring down rain, 40-something degrees there’s 100,000 people here. That’s Michigan.
We’ve been in four rain delays the entire year, we’re really prepared for it.
This team needs to learn how to fail. They’re learning how to fail and how to respond to that.
I never question their effort. It’s one thing I love about our team, I never question their effort. They gave everything they had tonight, it just wasn’t good enough. We got beat by a better team. Period.
[Getting to a bowl] is not of importance to me. I’m the same guy who went 1-11 in year one my first year. We’re going to do what we have to do to make sure nothing compromises the culture...My focus is to get better tomorrow, more than we were today.
“We are where we are, and I’ve been through this before. We are exactly where we’re supposed to be, no matter anybody’s opinions or judgements...we got whooped. On the way to being a champion, on the way to being successful, you have to understand what it feels like to be whooped. And we got whooped.”
“We’re not strong enough. We’re one of the least experienced and youngest football teams...we had to go against these grown men over here...we got thrown around a lot today.”
Rodney Smith
“They’re a good defense. We knew they were going to make adjustments. They just did a good job on the interior of stopping what we wanted to do between the tackles.”
On Khaleke Hudson:
“Heck of a ball player. He did his job, made plays all over the field. He had a huge impact on the defense today.”
“We’re still playing for a lot. I think it’s important that guys keep that in mind. As players, we have to make sure everybody knows that. We can’t have things like we had happen tonight with Donnell. That’s not how we play football. The players will handle it. I’m sure the coaches will, too.”
Blake Cashman
I think it all comes to execution. I thought the coaches did a great job of getting us into a gameplan, we just didn’t execute well.
They broke a lot of tackles. That was ultimately what hurt us was we couldn't execute on tackling and they were able to break the big runs.
