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Postgame Press Conference: Greg Schiano – 9/10/22

Postgame Press Conference: Greg Schiano - 9/10/22


GREG SCHIANO: Thanks for coming out. To start with, I want to thank our fans. It was a great, great atmosphere there. I want to thank our students. They were early and they packed that student section. That was awesome. It means a lot to us. I think our football marketing people, they have done an incredible job with this whole boardwalk they have got going and the Scarlet Walk. You know, we want our players to feel that big-time feel and we want what’s best for them. We also want what’s best for our fans, and our fans have asked for different things, and I think our administration is answering those calls. Obviously the one thing they want is wins, and I get that, but along the way you can make the experience, the game day experience so special for them and their families, and when we pulled up today, it was a different feel. And my hat is off to everyone who made that possible.

Today, the players, I think it was a step for us maturity-wise. It’s easy in a situation like this to drift and we did for a little split second there, but our leadership pulled it back, and we call it chopping. Got right back on the chop, and that was — that was important to me and important to architecture staff. I think my hat is off to our coaches. This isn’t an easy week as a coach. This is a very hard week and the guys really good a great job of holding heir guys accountable. Our players did a good job of stepping up. I thought there was a lot of good things. And try to answer any questions you’ve got.

Q. Looked like you had a chance to get a longer look at Evan and Gavin. What are your thoughts on each of their play?

GREG SCHIANO: I think they both did some really good things. I think there’s some things that we’ve really got to get better, fast, because time is our enemy right now. This week, I think now we have two tapes to teach from, two game tapes, and we’ll do a lot of things with cutups and putting those games together and showing them now, okay, here you do — like Gavin’s interception is not very unlike the one he threw the week before, late, and over the middle, right. Late. So we’ll work on all that stuff. I thought Evan was efficient with the ball. He went to the right places. Gavin was really good in the zone read run game and power read run game. That ball he threw to, I guess it was Chris [Long], that was a…

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