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Carolina Calls Live Updates (Texas A&M week)
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On the bye week:
"It was a great week on the field with the players practice and attempting to get better. Coaches were able to get out for a couple days recruiting, and I thought that went really well. There is a lot of excitement about Carolina football around high schools right now."
On this week:
We've got a really big challenge with A&M coming in here. Good week of preparation this week, and I know it'll be an electric environment there on Saturday night.
Thanked the fans for another sellout and called it "unbelievable" they've done it four out of five home games.
On A&M:
They're kind of what I thought. They're extremely, extremely talented. They're playing a lot of true freshmen; you see them get better each week, these freshmen that they're playing.
Says they're starting two true freshmen on the defensive line and three of their top four defensive ends are freshmen as well.
"It'll be a big challenge for us. They're a really, really quality team. We know we'll get their best Saturday night.
On injuries:
"We're in as good a position health wise as we've been since the first game. All those guys who missed the Kentucky game will be back except Corey Rucker."
"It was a great week on the field with the players practice and attempting to get better. Coaches were able to get out for a couple days recruiting, and I thought that went really well. There is a lot of excitement about Carolina football around high schools right now."
On this week:
We've got a really big challenge with A&M coming in here. Good week of preparation this week, and I know it'll be an electric environment there on Saturday night.
Thanked the fans for another sellout and called it "unbelievable" they've done it four out of five home games.
On A&M:
They're kind of what I thought. They're extremely, extremely talented. They're playing a lot of true freshmen; you see them get better each week, these freshmen that they're playing.
Says they're starting two true freshmen on the defensive line and three of their top four defensive ends are freshmen as well.
"It'll be a big challenge for us. They're a really, really quality team. We know we'll get their best Saturday night.
On injuries:
"We're in as good a position health wise as we've been since the first game. All those guys who missed the Kentucky game will be back except Corey Rucker."
On the open date:
For us it was needing to get healthy. It was a work week for us. We practiced three days and had good practices. It gave us a chance as coaches to do some self-scouting and see what we have. We were able to do that in practice and get ourselves better, and get a head start on Texas A&M.
On how practices change later in the season:
You have to adjust, there's no question about it. You can't do what you do in pre-season necessarily. Says they "cranked it up" this week a little bit from the bye week, but says they'll "have to tweak and adjust as we go," through the rest of the season.
"We track everything on our players with the GPS monitors and everything, so we have an idea if something is a little much or if we have to be smarter tomorrow."
On building on the Kentucky game:
"For us, our guys certainly had confidence going into the Kentucky game and they played like it. But they ought to have a lot more confidence with the way that we played and we performed. But it's also great we can go back and show them we didn't even play close to our best football at Kentucky. We played with unbelievable effort and physicality, but we feel like we left some plays out there."
For us it was needing to get healthy. It was a work week for us. We practiced three days and had good practices. It gave us a chance as coaches to do some self-scouting and see what we have. We were able to do that in practice and get ourselves better, and get a head start on Texas A&M.
On how practices change later in the season:
You have to adjust, there's no question about it. You can't do what you do in pre-season necessarily. Says they "cranked it up" this week a little bit from the bye week, but says they'll "have to tweak and adjust as we go," through the rest of the season.
"We track everything on our players with the GPS monitors and everything, so we have an idea if something is a little much or if we have to be smarter tomorrow."
On building on the Kentucky game:
"For us, our guys certainly had confidence going into the Kentucky game and they played like it. But they ought to have a lot more confidence with the way that we played and we performed. But it's also great we can go back and show them we didn't even play close to our best football at Kentucky. We played with unbelievable effort and physicality, but we feel like we left some plays out there."
On Rattler:
I told him at halftime [against Kentucky] he's going to have to make some plays in the second half for us to win, and I know he would, and he did.
"I'm really excited to see the next step he takes. I told him after Tuesday's practice, and this is no disrespect to the rest of the league, but there's a bunch of coaches in this league who would kill to have Spencer Rattler as their quarterback."
"He had a throw in practice on Tuesday where I had it on my computer and I actually just took my phone and videoed it and sent it to him and said 'there are very few people in the world who can make the throw you just made.'"
On A&M's offense:
They've had a lot of the issues that we've had defensively; they've had them on offense with injuries. They've had to play a lot of true freshmen. They're getting healthier, and then they're getting more and more experienced and better each week.
"When I watch them I don't see an offense that's struggling, I see an offense that doesn't have the continuity it was hoping for."
On how the stadium and facility upgrades help recruit:
It's a huge difference from when I was here before with what Coach Tanner has done with the facilities around the stadium. It's a huge advantage, and I noticed it when I first got here.
"It's awesome, and is something we certainly sell the heck out of in recruiting."
On Nick Emmanwori:
It's a great story. Coach Aaron Brand brought Nick down to one of our football camps in the summertime. I wish I could say we were on top of it and knew more about it. He went out there in the camp and it was kind of like, 'oh my god, who is this kid?" We offered in that day and prayed not too many people found out what we had right here at Irmo High School.
Closes it out by saying "in a lot of ways, the keys to winning against Kentucky will be the same as the keys to winning against Texas A&M."
I told him at halftime [against Kentucky] he's going to have to make some plays in the second half for us to win, and I know he would, and he did.
"I'm really excited to see the next step he takes. I told him after Tuesday's practice, and this is no disrespect to the rest of the league, but there's a bunch of coaches in this league who would kill to have Spencer Rattler as their quarterback."
"He had a throw in practice on Tuesday where I had it on my computer and I actually just took my phone and videoed it and sent it to him and said 'there are very few people in the world who can make the throw you just made.'"
On A&M's offense:
They've had a lot of the issues that we've had defensively; they've had them on offense with injuries. They've had to play a lot of true freshmen. They're getting healthier, and then they're getting more and more experienced and better each week.
"When I watch them I don't see an offense that's struggling, I see an offense that doesn't have the continuity it was hoping for."
On how the stadium and facility upgrades help recruit:
It's a huge difference from when I was here before with what Coach Tanner has done with the facilities around the stadium. It's a huge advantage, and I noticed it when I first got here.
"It's awesome, and is something we certainly sell the heck out of in recruiting."
On Nick Emmanwori:
It's a great story. Coach Aaron Brand brought Nick down to one of our football camps in the summertime. I wish I could say we were on top of it and knew more about it. He went out there in the camp and it was kind of like, 'oh my god, who is this kid?" We offered in that day and prayed not too many people found out what we had right here at Irmo High School.
Closes it out by saying "in a lot of ways, the keys to winning against Kentucky will be the same as the keys to winning against Texas A&M."
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