Clawson Presser--Not Discouraged Edition

Coach Clawson met the press Wednesday....I listened so you don't have to, a human colander straining out coach speak and finding actual nuggets of information for the obsessive fan.

First, he said something very interesting, which is that we are not planning to do anything for the future....Coach does not feel that is for the seniors who are playing the last four football games of their lives.  We won't play a sophomore in place of a senior just to get them experience.

(As a practical note, in some cases if we had additional freshmen and sophomores who were ready they would be in now).

The injury bugs continue to hit.  Further, they have hit where we were thin already.

• Bojicic is very doubtful.
• Truss is out.
• Morgan is almost certainly out.
• Tyler Beck is probably out, which puts us down 2 FBs
• Pronty was not 100% last week.

On the plus side, they are hopeful they will have Cooper, Geter and Scott Lewis.

Ouch.

Burkhardt has the PAT/FG job.

The rest of the talk was about how similar we are to CMU in terms of disappointing seasons, and then reiterating Saturday's comments on the state of the program, which he thinks is not as far away as it looks.  First, we are 1-7, and no one is happy with that, but we turn a couple of the close losses and stay healthy, and we're not 1-7.  And, he sees the nucleus of a good team in there, just a team without experienced players thanks to a hole in a recruiting class.