Game Week Press Conference: Greg Schiano – 10/14/24

GREG SCHIANO: Thanks for coming out, guys. It’s been kind of a tough 45 or so hours since the game. But as I said Saturday, I’ll say it again that was unacceptable. Our performance, my coaching, and really, tried to look at everything we possibly could all the way until about midnight last night and moved on to UCLA. What basically the findings are is there’s no one major thing. It’s a bunch of little things. Details of execution. Details of coaching. And when you have a lot of change like we have in the last three weeks, you really got to double down on the details to make sure that everybody is on the same page, everybody is doing things with the same precision, and we did not do a good job and I did not do a good enough job of guaranteeing that happens. So you add it up, and that’s what happened. Every game takes on a life of its own. We certainly had our opportunities all the way up to the very end of the first half to make it a one-score game going into halftime, and we were not able to do that. We let the game get away from us, and you know, Wisconsin did a great job. I’ll answer a question or two to clarify that, and then — then I’m going to move on to UCLA.

Q. Starting offensively, you mentioned the details in the execution, what’s your level of confidence that this could be corrected to the level it needs to be going forward starting with the UCLA game?

GREG SCHIANO: We have got a great group of players here. They are steadfastly committed to what we are doing. Yesterday was a humbling yet sobering experience. We talked through it all as a team, as a staff and we went out and had a good practice and our guys will be ready to go and we’ll have a great week of practice, and Homecoming. It will be a great opportunity to go out and play in front of a great crowd, one that deserves better than what we gave them, and that’s our goal to go and be 1-0 the at end of this UCLA season and get back on track. I’m very confident that we can do that but there’s a very good team on the other side. You can be fooled by the record; don’t be. When you look they have played a very, very competitive schedule and really, really tough schedule and have played and been competitive in each of the games. Again games kind of take on a life of their own but they have seemed to find themselves, as well. It’s a new staff and they have made some adjustments from the early season now and are playing well. So we’ll have our hands full. We have — certainly we are banged…