“We’re not even close to playing our best football,” said Ward, who through two games has completed 75 percent of his passes and thrown for 689 yards and six touchdowns. “If you go back and really watch the tape from the first game, I would say there was a minimum of 10 bad plays. … And from this last game, the biggest takeaway was with the fourth downs. That’s just us not doing the little things, so that’s something we’ve got to clean up. I mean, we say we want to win games, but you know, if we don’t clean up the little stuff now, it can hurt us in the back end. So, we’re getting better at that. We got better this week at working those situations and working the right concepts that we’re supposed to dun. But we’re going to continue to chop wood at it and just keep playing ball.”
Added Miami head coach Mario Cristobal, “Every team has good football players and if you don’t really believe that and you don’t really train like that, there’s going to come a Saturday or Friday or Thursday where [you’re] going to be disappointed, you know? For us, the best thing that we do, the very best thing that we do, is the way we practice; the way we practice and prepare. And the best thing that we have going for us – it’s led by the team – the best thing that we’ve got going for us is our culture. It allows us to be just very blunt and real and right to the point and get to business. … We made it very clear from the beginning: there are no easy games on our schedule and whoever thinks that way, you’re going to be disappointed one day. So, stay hungry, stay driven. The most important game of the year is at 3:30 on Saturday and we’re looking forward to it.”
That game on Saturday will feature an opponent in Ball State that is coming off a 42-34 season-opening win over Missouri State.
The Cardinals (1-0) will be bidding for their first win over a top 10 team in program history and are looking to start the season with two straight wins for the first time since 2013.
Quarterback Kadin Semonza had a solid showing in Ball State’s opener, completing 28 of 39 passes for 262 passing yards and four touchdowns. He also ran for a score.
The redshirt freshman has already notched some big-game experience, playing in the Cardinals’ matchups against both Kentucky and Georgia last fall before redshirting.
Meanwhile, running back Braedon Sloan, a transfer from Eastern Kentucky, totaled 149 all-purpose yards in the opener, and…
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