We finished strong in the last three games. Team overachieved in a lot of areas.
Getting extra practices will be helpful, especially for the young guys.
We're going to focus on us getting better, especially for the first week or so and sprinkle in some Georgia Tech. In the next week, we'll focus on Georgia Tech. The first week will be focused on us, Minnesota vs. Minnesota, then we'll get into a lot of 7 on 7. Come Wednesday's practice, we'll start to work on Georgia Tech in a small part of practice. Then once we get to the second week, it will be a Minnesota/Georgia Tech combination, and then the last two weeks will all be Georgia Tech.
Philosophy on a bowl game? It's being a winner first. Of course, you want to have fun, but whether it's a scrimmage, a regular season game, or a bowl game, you want to win.
Plan on signing all recruits at the early signing day.
We have to be a more consistent team. Having these bowl practices will help us.
Against a triple option team, you'll see some of our players play different positions, some will play more than they did before, some will play less. Everything changes.
We play Georgia Southern next year and they're also an option team, so this will help prepare for that.
Coached against Georgia Southern twice at Western Michigan. All coaches on our staff are very familiar with triple option. We know what we have to implement.
These days it's hard to keep anything a secret. The minute I find out, I think I'm the only one to know, but as I'm walking into a room, I hear "oh, I heard we're going to Detroit!"
Have not crossed paths will Paul Johnson before.
This Year 2 team is way younger than the Year 2 team at Western Michigan, so we're happy to get to a bowl game.
I never look at success as the number of wins. We use John Wooden's definition: the peace of mind you get from knowing everything you did to be the best.
