Notwithstanding the many yards put up by the offense, Coach is not satisfied with the offensive performance. He thought Johnson was rusty and the WRs were sometimes in the wrong place. Overall, he said BG needs to complete a much higher percentage. If that was done, BG would get more first downs, stay on the field longer and score more.
While he understands that we were playing Tennessee, he only expects to give up 600 yards to God.
He was proud we kept battling back. With the poor field position and the one-sided penalty count BG was really up against it and we showed Tennessee that they "can't go back out in the parking lot and drink jubilees."
He talked about the special teams issues. Some of it was when BG was in block prevent deep in its territory, and some of it was players who were playing for the first time. Oh, and Maryland has a returner who set a Big 10 record Saturday for returns. Buckle up.
Coach hates talking about injuries. He said, Travis Greene will be back. He's not out for the season. No comment for Saturday.
Coppet is unknown.
Here's a secret: He does like TEs. They had 5 catches at Tennessee. Also better for practice to simulate opponents. They have a coach here who was a TE for Babers at EIU and he had something like 800 yards in receptions. Other MAC Coaches are telling TE recruits that BG won't use them, so Coach says we need to land one to prove it isn't true.
If Tennessee had such a great punt return man, why did we kick the ball to him? Why not use the sidelines to your advantage and not let that returner have the whole field to use?
ReplyDeleteThat's a valid question. I felt like we did try to get the ball away from him a little bit on the last couple of punts, but letting that guy near the ball was an error and the same would go for next week against Maryland, who might have the best returner in the country.
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