“Embarrassing day, shocking day, you shouldn’t be at North Carolina and lose to a Group of Five team, period. There are no excuses. Our defense, who played great all spring, all preseason and played outstanding for the first three games, looked awful today. We had communication problems, we had missed tackles. We had guys wide open for a touchdown. Our special teams, who had been better than the three teams we had played the first three games, had an onside kick that hit us in the chest and they get it for a score. Had a blocked punt that they get a score from. Jacolby, I thought, played really, really well. He even had an interception for a touchdown right before the half. And Conner came in for one play and fumbled the ball, and that ended up being a touchdown. So it can only come back to one person, and that’s me. I’ve hired everybody on this staff.
“I hired everybody that works in this building, and I’ve signed every player on this team. So I mean, the people that want to blame me, they should, because I am at fault 100 percent. I missed it. We had a great week’s practice. I thought we’d win the game, and we had a bust on the first play of the game with a quarterback that runs 50 yards. Somebody didn’t take the quarterback. Then we have a fumble on the first drive. I mean, it was just a day that started wrong. I really thought we’d turn it around at halftime, still win the game, and because we could have and we moved the ball at times well enough in the second half to win the game. But we still couldn’t stop and didn’t.
“We had to score every time we had it to have a chance to win the game. So congratulations to JMU. I should have said that. I think Bob (Chesney’s) a really good coach, and they did a great job coaching today, and they did a better job than I did and that’s what it is. I felt bad for our fans and our students that came for them to have to look at something like that. And again, there’s only one place to…
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