Orr Presser

Coach Orr's presser was Monday, and the audio is available at the Falcon website.

As these things go, it was relatively interesting.  Coach is sanguine about the defeat in Akron.  He says that  we played a really good 15 minutes of basketball in the first half to go up 19-10, and that the game was only 4 points at halftime and was within 10 with 10 minutes left (With 9:53 left, it was actually a 14 point lead).  So, it wasn't like Akron bolted to a huge lead and then ran away and hid.

Of course, the team did tons of things wrong.  Coach asked (rhetorically, I assume) how many times Otis Polk would go 2-11 from the field.  And the same thing, more or less, with the turnovers, etc.

Basically, coach says that the conference season is very long, and you gotta grind it out.  I will say this....he seemed very confident of his team, notwithstanding the poor game at the JAR, and says his team will be hungry to play against Buffalo on Thursday.

Coach was actually pretty animated, especially as he drew the distinction between playing hard (which we do) and competing hard (which we have done, but didn't).

While you are at it, take a minute to listen to Erik Marschall's presser too.  Very interesting look at the physical sacrifices he has made to be a Falcon.