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Assistant Coaches Press Conference Coverage
9/26/2018 3:59:00 PM | Football
Defensive ends coach Chuck Bullough and assistant head coach/offensive line coach Mark Staten.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State assistant coaches Chuck Bullough and Mark Staten spoke to the media Wednesday afternoon, to review the 35-21 victory for MSU at Indiana in MSU's Big Ten opener last week, and preview this Saturday's match-up with Central Michigan.
No. 21/18 Michigan State wraps up the nonconference portion of its schedule against CMU on Saturday, Sept. 29 at noon in Spartan Stadium. The game will be televised on FS1.
Michigan State University will induct five members into its Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday, Sept. 27. The Class of 2018 includes: Dale Anderson (wrestling), Savatheda (Fynes) Coke (track & field), Rachel Miller (rowing), Jimmy Raye (football) and Bill Wehrwein (track & field). The annual "Celebrate State" weekend also includes the ninth-annual Varsity Letter Jacket Presentation and Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 27 and culminates on Saturday, Sept. 29 with a special recognition of the Hall of Famers during the Michigan State-Central Michigan football game in Spartan Stadium.
Saturday's game marks the 11th meeting between Michigan State and Central Michigan. The Spartans lead the all-time series, 7-3, and have won three straight over CMU, including a 30-10 victory in the last meeting at Spartan Stadium in 2015. The Chippewas won the first two meetings, 20-3 in 1991 and 24-20 in 1992, before MSU then took the next four: 48-34 in 1993, 38-7 in 1998, 35-21 in 2001 and 24-7 in 2004. CMU broke the streak by edging the Spartans, 29-27, in 2009. In 2011, MSU topped the Chippewas, 45-7, and in 2012, MSU traveled to Mount Pleasant and came away with a 41-7 win.Â
Michigan State ranks first in the FBS in rushing defense, allowing just 32.7 yards per game (98 yards total through three games). The Spartans have held their opponents under 50 yards rushing for five consecutive games, dating back to last season, and under 100 yards rushing for six straight games. MSU has only allowed 136 rushing yards in its last five games (27.2 ypg), dating back to last season. Last season, MSU ranked No. 1 in the Big Ten and No. 2 in the FBS in rushing defense (95.3 ypg). In the Dantonio era, Michigan State has held its opponent below 100 yards rushing in 75 of 148 games (51 percent). MSU is 65-10 (.867) during those games.
Michigan State moved up in the latest national rankings following its 35-21 win at Indiana. The Spartans climbed from No. 23 to No. 18 in the Amway Coaches Poll, and went from No. 24 to No. 21 in The Associated Press Poll. Michigan State has been ranked in The Associated Press Top 25 for 14 consecutive weeks.Â
Bullough is one of three MSU assistant coaches who are new to the staff this season, but faced Central Michigan last season in their previous roles. Bullough was at Eastern Michigan last season, while secondary/special teams coordinator Paul Haynes and assistant defensive backs/freshman head coach Don Treadwell were at Kent State. Additionally, MSU special teams analyst Shayne Graham spent last season as a quality control coach at Central Michigan.
The following is a select transcript from Wednesday's press conference:
Defensive Ends Coach Chuck Bullough:
On what stands out about Central Michigan on film…
I played Central last year (while coaching at Eastern Michigan), Coach (Paul) Haynes played them, Coach (Don) Treadwell played them (while coaching at Kent State), so we have some guys on the staff here that have experience against Central Michigan. I just remember from the game, number five (CMU running back Jonathan Ward), preparing for him, he was a lot better in person, so I'm telling players on film he's really good, but he's really good when we ended up in the game. They've got two quarterbacks, and which quarterback is going to play, so they've got us guessing a little bit.
On getting pressure up the middle…
Oh we've got some big boys inside now, that always helps the defensive ends because they can't come out and double you. So we all work together, then they've got to go out and try to block Kenny (Willekies), now that gives them a little bit more one-on-one's. So we play off each other.
On sophomore Drew Beesley and redshirt freshman Jack Camper…
Well, Jack is an athlete that came in here as a tight end, he's learning the position, but he's got all the intangibles, he's tough, long, he's got everything. He's working, he's a work in progress, but we know that, we expect that because he's not a defensive end right now, he's a tight end, an athlete now. He missed spring ball which killed him, he hurt his foot. So he's really in the first stages of learning, but he's got a lot of potential. Drew's just a hard-worker, does everything right, never wrong on assignments, works hard and just does everything right. The group as a whole, my defensive end group, is just a bunch of hard-workers, it's so easy to coach them. They all just work hard, they're all capable, we just have to figure out which situations to put them in as we go through the season.
On sophomore Jacub Pansiuk returning…
You've always got to check in with (athletic) trainers, how many plays can he play? That's the thing right now because you don't want to bring him back to early and he hurts his shoulder and he's out for a couple more games. So that's all just talking to trainers and figuring out how many snaps he can get.
On defensive line reps…
Everybody's on a snap count. Every time somebody comes off the field I have a guy that's charting it and I say how many snaps has this guy played and then I try to figure out okay let's get this guy. You would like by the end of the season not to have as many snaps on your guys on the end. That's when you're making that push. The less snaps they have the fresher they're going to be during the game and the fresher they're going to be at the end of the season because as defensive lineman, you're getting hit every play, you can't play the whole game. Kenny (Willekes) played a lot of plays last game, but he was just on fire, he was rolling, he was hitting the quarterback all the time so we went with it, but everybody has a certain rep count. Now as the game goes, and what kind of game it is, and do they change up, now we'll make changes as we go.
On senior Dillon Alexander…
He practiced this week, it's going to be a game-time decision. He's practicing, just one yesterday, but we'll see how he does today, see how he feels. That'll just be a progression.
Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Line Coach Mark Staten:
On his offensive line at this point in the season…
Yeah last game we shored some things up. I mean unfortunately as an O-Line group in three games we've given up four sacks so that's more than we should, and we've been working on getting that fixed.Â
On getting his line back to where they need to be…
The thing with Cole (Chewins), he's still trying to regain the strength that he lost from being out in the spring and majority of the fall. He's just trying to get that back and trying to ease him back out there, I mean not to make anything that's too harmful for him or that's too harmful for the team. You know with him not being out there, that's our bell cow. You know that's like Brian (Allen) was last year so truly from last year season we're missing two great leaders.Â
On players in position they haven't been in before…
Well, they have played a lot of snaps. I could pull out from scrimmages, from things of that nature so we track that all spring, all... how many they have at each position. Though you may not have seen it, the public may not have seen it, they've been working together for quite some time. Â
On the difficulty of finding cohesion with players…Â
We don't have preseason games, you know we have preseason scrimmages and you see the animals out there, the run-stoppers that we've got, so that's why it seems like since we've been here we just continue to climb the mountain, then by the time it gets to November, we're clicking on all cylinders.Â
On being patient with players and results…
Like any human being, especially in this generation that we're upbringing now, everybody wants now, everybody wants that tweet to be good about them, everybody wants that picture out there of them in the recruiting facet of things so it's just a process. Being an offensive lineman, you toil away in your own little space and it's generally when something bad happens. When (Brian) Lewerke throws that touchdown they don't say 'hey, did you see that great block by so and so?' You see, and you celebrate those guys and we just give each other high fives and continue working. It's often times with the offensive line it's when bad things happen that we're noticed, but it's also in our nature to kind of just wipe it off and get back to work.
On essentially losing two guys from last year…
You've known me for years I won't make any excuses. I'm a Randy Walker, God rest his soul, thumb-pointer, and so I've got to do a better job of leading these guys from the sidelines and making sure and going over each thing they see, each play and as we go through the week giving them that confidence and that is something that you know that left tackle is a key position in anybody's system. Tyler (Higby) had been playing that since the spring and this last week went out and had a great game.Â
On Luke Campbell being more comfortable and the toughness of him and (David) Beedle…
He's (Campbell) more suited for the guard position. He always has been and that's what our thought was. Through summer, through fall camp, he's been playing both guards so he's able to do that. When you don't have to occupy a large space and you're more confined in between two people it's generally easier. The thing that we're continuing to do in that room is just keep building their confidence. It's this close (holding fingers close together), it's this close but as we know in the game of inches this close can seem like here to China sometimes.Â
On what he sees from Blake Bueter…
Leading up to the Utah State game where he played his first snaps, he had a really good week. It was like something, I don't know if it was game week or what, but just something, going out there and just being in the two-deep something just clicked in him, and then we had some guys dinged a little bit and I said on the phones 'Hey I'm going to put Blake in.' Everybody's like 'yep, absolutely put him in there, throw him in there,' and he responded. I think it's just his want to, I think it's... his dad was a Spartan, so this place was always very, very important to him. We gave him that chance that maybe other schools weren't, so he's going put it all out there. He played his most snaps last week and just continues to learn, you need those game reps to learn so he's going to play a lot of football for us.Â
On Bueter getting to this point quicker than expected…
Yes, yeah, he's absolutely quicker to this point and a lot of times it's just thing that we may not give enough credit to outside of these meeting rooms and stuff is desire. Just 'I may fall down but I'm popping back up and I'm looking to go get somebody else.' Those littles things he has tenfold.
On what Bueter's ceiling is…
We'll see. I'm interested to find out.Â
On where Jordan Reid's position will continue to be…
Jordan's played both right and left and he just seems to be right now, more comfortable at the right and he's really starting to understand that how you practice is how you play, and he's been out there just in practice just in beast mode. That's been a lot of fun to see and it's been transferring in to game mode.
On Reid being a natural at tackle…
He's a tackle, he's absolutely a tackle. Shoot, if Doozer (former defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi) was still here he probably would have already been stolen and put at D-tackle, you know what I mean (laughing). Thankfully we've been able to keep him, and he's gotten over 200 snaps already on the season and he's doing really well. Â
On what stands out about CMU's defense…
Their front seven is very good, better than you want them to be as an O-line coach and you look at Fountain (CMU linebacker Malik Fountain) in the middle, you know All-MAC guy. This is his fourth year starting and I don't know how vocal he is, but he leads with his play and he's a very physical linebacker and you look across the board, they have a new starter in #17 (Alex Briones), but he's flying around I mean he played a lot of their Delta package last year so we've seen him in film from last year and then their front four, they fly around, they're solid you know we've got to come to work. As we all know from being in this state there's nine of those eleven that come from the state of Michigan and we knew a lot of them just through the recruiting and watching film and things like that. They're goal is to come out and prove to us that we were wrong in letting them go up to Mount Pleasant. That's a little added deal so we've got to work hard from the get go and do what we do.
On if it helps having background knowledge of the MAC being a MAC guy in playing at a MAC school…
Absolutely and you know the other thing about that is we haven't had a complete game yet. You think about this last game, yeah, we won by fourteen but there were twenty-one other points out there and I'm sure the defense would say there were two scores that they probably, heck that stop they had and made them kick a field goal that was unbelievable. We're still looking for our complete game and we never felt like that game was in peril. We never felt that 'oh man' feeling... thankfully Speedy, you see why his nickname is Speedy, I'm glad that he came all the way out here.
On what players like (AJ) Arcuri, (Matt) Carrick, (Mustafa) Khaleefah need to do to get into the game…
Well, first off, the amazing thing about age is because of his injuries and everything, he's truly classified as a redshirt-freshman. He has three years after this which is pretty awesome to be able to continue to work with him for these next three-and-a-half years, but thing about those three, they're young and as we talk, you know not just about the O-line, but about the team we talk about we have to get these guys some snaps someway. Usually in the O-line you start by doing it on the field goal, extra point team and two of those three are on that and as their play and as their technique gets better there if I feel better as a position coach throwing them out there because we know that's such a critical getting those three, or the one, or the six.
On how Matt Allen has improved this season…
As a starter, he pulled the guys together right before the game which usually an older guy does. He went in there and it was like Jack (Allen), it wasn't like Brian (Allen), but it was like Jack because Jack is a guy that for his entire time here had that whole picture in his mindset, where it took Brian a little bit, you know middle child syndrome, to develop that (smiling). I mean I have it, so I understand it (laughing). Once Brian did develop it he became that leader that we know of from last year and Matt, one of his teammates actually said coach that was so, on Monday said, 'I don't know if you heard it, I don't know if you saw it,' but I saw him do it, he said it was just like Jack Allen was was back. He said it was awesome.
On the help of Coaches Bullough, Treadwell and Haynes, who have coached against CMU last year…
I think the knowledge of the play, the players and the knowledge of being able to say 'this guy was doing this' or this scheme is susceptible to this or this scheme is susceptible to that and then the other thing, Shayne, we have Shayne Graham who's actually been working up there so that's been a tremendous help this year as well.
On long snapper Ryan Armour becoming starter this season and benefiting team...
On hard work, it was just hard work. It was like the O-line position you don't notice it until you notice it. I mean he's been laces out on all his field goals, he's been laces up as a punter. I mean he's been lights out.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State assistant coaches Chuck Bullough and Mark Staten spoke to the media Wednesday afternoon, to review the 35-21 victory for MSU at Indiana in MSU's Big Ten opener last week, and preview this Saturday's match-up with Central Michigan.
No. 21/18 Michigan State wraps up the nonconference portion of its schedule against CMU on Saturday, Sept. 29 at noon in Spartan Stadium. The game will be televised on FS1.
Michigan State University will induct five members into its Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday, Sept. 27. The Class of 2018 includes: Dale Anderson (wrestling), Savatheda (Fynes) Coke (track & field), Rachel Miller (rowing), Jimmy Raye (football) and Bill Wehrwein (track & field). The annual "Celebrate State" weekend also includes the ninth-annual Varsity Letter Jacket Presentation and Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 27 and culminates on Saturday, Sept. 29 with a special recognition of the Hall of Famers during the Michigan State-Central Michigan football game in Spartan Stadium.
Saturday's game marks the 11th meeting between Michigan State and Central Michigan. The Spartans lead the all-time series, 7-3, and have won three straight over CMU, including a 30-10 victory in the last meeting at Spartan Stadium in 2015. The Chippewas won the first two meetings, 20-3 in 1991 and 24-20 in 1992, before MSU then took the next four: 48-34 in 1993, 38-7 in 1998, 35-21 in 2001 and 24-7 in 2004. CMU broke the streak by edging the Spartans, 29-27, in 2009. In 2011, MSU topped the Chippewas, 45-7, and in 2012, MSU traveled to Mount Pleasant and came away with a 41-7 win.Â
Michigan State ranks first in the FBS in rushing defense, allowing just 32.7 yards per game (98 yards total through three games). The Spartans have held their opponents under 50 yards rushing for five consecutive games, dating back to last season, and under 100 yards rushing for six straight games. MSU has only allowed 136 rushing yards in its last five games (27.2 ypg), dating back to last season. Last season, MSU ranked No. 1 in the Big Ten and No. 2 in the FBS in rushing defense (95.3 ypg). In the Dantonio era, Michigan State has held its opponent below 100 yards rushing in 75 of 148 games (51 percent). MSU is 65-10 (.867) during those games.
Michigan State moved up in the latest national rankings following its 35-21 win at Indiana. The Spartans climbed from No. 23 to No. 18 in the Amway Coaches Poll, and went from No. 24 to No. 21 in The Associated Press Poll. Michigan State has been ranked in The Associated Press Top 25 for 14 consecutive weeks.Â
Bullough is one of three MSU assistant coaches who are new to the staff this season, but faced Central Michigan last season in their previous roles. Bullough was at Eastern Michigan last season, while secondary/special teams coordinator Paul Haynes and assistant defensive backs/freshman head coach Don Treadwell were at Kent State. Additionally, MSU special teams analyst Shayne Graham spent last season as a quality control coach at Central Michigan.
The following is a select transcript from Wednesday's press conference:
Defensive Ends Coach Chuck Bullough:
On what stands out about Central Michigan on film…
I played Central last year (while coaching at Eastern Michigan), Coach (Paul) Haynes played them, Coach (Don) Treadwell played them (while coaching at Kent State), so we have some guys on the staff here that have experience against Central Michigan. I just remember from the game, number five (CMU running back Jonathan Ward), preparing for him, he was a lot better in person, so I'm telling players on film he's really good, but he's really good when we ended up in the game. They've got two quarterbacks, and which quarterback is going to play, so they've got us guessing a little bit.
On getting pressure up the middle…
Oh we've got some big boys inside now, that always helps the defensive ends because they can't come out and double you. So we all work together, then they've got to go out and try to block Kenny (Willekies), now that gives them a little bit more one-on-one's. So we play off each other.
On sophomore Drew Beesley and redshirt freshman Jack Camper…
Well, Jack is an athlete that came in here as a tight end, he's learning the position, but he's got all the intangibles, he's tough, long, he's got everything. He's working, he's a work in progress, but we know that, we expect that because he's not a defensive end right now, he's a tight end, an athlete now. He missed spring ball which killed him, he hurt his foot. So he's really in the first stages of learning, but he's got a lot of potential. Drew's just a hard-worker, does everything right, never wrong on assignments, works hard and just does everything right. The group as a whole, my defensive end group, is just a bunch of hard-workers, it's so easy to coach them. They all just work hard, they're all capable, we just have to figure out which situations to put them in as we go through the season.
On sophomore Jacub Pansiuk returning…
You've always got to check in with (athletic) trainers, how many plays can he play? That's the thing right now because you don't want to bring him back to early and he hurts his shoulder and he's out for a couple more games. So that's all just talking to trainers and figuring out how many snaps he can get.
On defensive line reps…
Everybody's on a snap count. Every time somebody comes off the field I have a guy that's charting it and I say how many snaps has this guy played and then I try to figure out okay let's get this guy. You would like by the end of the season not to have as many snaps on your guys on the end. That's when you're making that push. The less snaps they have the fresher they're going to be during the game and the fresher they're going to be at the end of the season because as defensive lineman, you're getting hit every play, you can't play the whole game. Kenny (Willekes) played a lot of plays last game, but he was just on fire, he was rolling, he was hitting the quarterback all the time so we went with it, but everybody has a certain rep count. Now as the game goes, and what kind of game it is, and do they change up, now we'll make changes as we go.
On senior Dillon Alexander…
He practiced this week, it's going to be a game-time decision. He's practicing, just one yesterday, but we'll see how he does today, see how he feels. That'll just be a progression.
Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Line Coach Mark Staten:
On his offensive line at this point in the season…
Yeah last game we shored some things up. I mean unfortunately as an O-Line group in three games we've given up four sacks so that's more than we should, and we've been working on getting that fixed.Â
On getting his line back to where they need to be…
The thing with Cole (Chewins), he's still trying to regain the strength that he lost from being out in the spring and majority of the fall. He's just trying to get that back and trying to ease him back out there, I mean not to make anything that's too harmful for him or that's too harmful for the team. You know with him not being out there, that's our bell cow. You know that's like Brian (Allen) was last year so truly from last year season we're missing two great leaders.Â
On players in position they haven't been in before…
Well, they have played a lot of snaps. I could pull out from scrimmages, from things of that nature so we track that all spring, all... how many they have at each position. Though you may not have seen it, the public may not have seen it, they've been working together for quite some time. Â
On the difficulty of finding cohesion with players…Â
We don't have preseason games, you know we have preseason scrimmages and you see the animals out there, the run-stoppers that we've got, so that's why it seems like since we've been here we just continue to climb the mountain, then by the time it gets to November, we're clicking on all cylinders.Â
On being patient with players and results…
Like any human being, especially in this generation that we're upbringing now, everybody wants now, everybody wants that tweet to be good about them, everybody wants that picture out there of them in the recruiting facet of things so it's just a process. Being an offensive lineman, you toil away in your own little space and it's generally when something bad happens. When (Brian) Lewerke throws that touchdown they don't say 'hey, did you see that great block by so and so?' You see, and you celebrate those guys and we just give each other high fives and continue working. It's often times with the offensive line it's when bad things happen that we're noticed, but it's also in our nature to kind of just wipe it off and get back to work.
On essentially losing two guys from last year…
You've known me for years I won't make any excuses. I'm a Randy Walker, God rest his soul, thumb-pointer, and so I've got to do a better job of leading these guys from the sidelines and making sure and going over each thing they see, each play and as we go through the week giving them that confidence and that is something that you know that left tackle is a key position in anybody's system. Tyler (Higby) had been playing that since the spring and this last week went out and had a great game.Â
On Luke Campbell being more comfortable and the toughness of him and (David) Beedle…
He's (Campbell) more suited for the guard position. He always has been and that's what our thought was. Through summer, through fall camp, he's been playing both guards so he's able to do that. When you don't have to occupy a large space and you're more confined in between two people it's generally easier. The thing that we're continuing to do in that room is just keep building their confidence. It's this close (holding fingers close together), it's this close but as we know in the game of inches this close can seem like here to China sometimes.Â
On what he sees from Blake Bueter…
Leading up to the Utah State game where he played his first snaps, he had a really good week. It was like something, I don't know if it was game week or what, but just something, going out there and just being in the two-deep something just clicked in him, and then we had some guys dinged a little bit and I said on the phones 'Hey I'm going to put Blake in.' Everybody's like 'yep, absolutely put him in there, throw him in there,' and he responded. I think it's just his want to, I think it's... his dad was a Spartan, so this place was always very, very important to him. We gave him that chance that maybe other schools weren't, so he's going put it all out there. He played his most snaps last week and just continues to learn, you need those game reps to learn so he's going to play a lot of football for us.Â
On Bueter getting to this point quicker than expected…
Yes, yeah, he's absolutely quicker to this point and a lot of times it's just thing that we may not give enough credit to outside of these meeting rooms and stuff is desire. Just 'I may fall down but I'm popping back up and I'm looking to go get somebody else.' Those littles things he has tenfold.
On what Bueter's ceiling is…
We'll see. I'm interested to find out.Â
On where Jordan Reid's position will continue to be…
Jordan's played both right and left and he just seems to be right now, more comfortable at the right and he's really starting to understand that how you practice is how you play, and he's been out there just in practice just in beast mode. That's been a lot of fun to see and it's been transferring in to game mode.
On Reid being a natural at tackle…
He's a tackle, he's absolutely a tackle. Shoot, if Doozer (former defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi) was still here he probably would have already been stolen and put at D-tackle, you know what I mean (laughing). Thankfully we've been able to keep him, and he's gotten over 200 snaps already on the season and he's doing really well. Â
On what stands out about CMU's defense…
Their front seven is very good, better than you want them to be as an O-line coach and you look at Fountain (CMU linebacker Malik Fountain) in the middle, you know All-MAC guy. This is his fourth year starting and I don't know how vocal he is, but he leads with his play and he's a very physical linebacker and you look across the board, they have a new starter in #17 (Alex Briones), but he's flying around I mean he played a lot of their Delta package last year so we've seen him in film from last year and then their front four, they fly around, they're solid you know we've got to come to work. As we all know from being in this state there's nine of those eleven that come from the state of Michigan and we knew a lot of them just through the recruiting and watching film and things like that. They're goal is to come out and prove to us that we were wrong in letting them go up to Mount Pleasant. That's a little added deal so we've got to work hard from the get go and do what we do.
On if it helps having background knowledge of the MAC being a MAC guy in playing at a MAC school…
Absolutely and you know the other thing about that is we haven't had a complete game yet. You think about this last game, yeah, we won by fourteen but there were twenty-one other points out there and I'm sure the defense would say there were two scores that they probably, heck that stop they had and made them kick a field goal that was unbelievable. We're still looking for our complete game and we never felt like that game was in peril. We never felt that 'oh man' feeling... thankfully Speedy, you see why his nickname is Speedy, I'm glad that he came all the way out here.
On what players like (AJ) Arcuri, (Matt) Carrick, (Mustafa) Khaleefah need to do to get into the game…
Well, first off, the amazing thing about age is because of his injuries and everything, he's truly classified as a redshirt-freshman. He has three years after this which is pretty awesome to be able to continue to work with him for these next three-and-a-half years, but thing about those three, they're young and as we talk, you know not just about the O-line, but about the team we talk about we have to get these guys some snaps someway. Usually in the O-line you start by doing it on the field goal, extra point team and two of those three are on that and as their play and as their technique gets better there if I feel better as a position coach throwing them out there because we know that's such a critical getting those three, or the one, or the six.
On how Matt Allen has improved this season…
As a starter, he pulled the guys together right before the game which usually an older guy does. He went in there and it was like Jack (Allen), it wasn't like Brian (Allen), but it was like Jack because Jack is a guy that for his entire time here had that whole picture in his mindset, where it took Brian a little bit, you know middle child syndrome, to develop that (smiling). I mean I have it, so I understand it (laughing). Once Brian did develop it he became that leader that we know of from last year and Matt, one of his teammates actually said coach that was so, on Monday said, 'I don't know if you heard it, I don't know if you saw it,' but I saw him do it, he said it was just like Jack Allen was was back. He said it was awesome.
On the help of Coaches Bullough, Treadwell and Haynes, who have coached against CMU last year…
I think the knowledge of the play, the players and the knowledge of being able to say 'this guy was doing this' or this scheme is susceptible to this or this scheme is susceptible to that and then the other thing, Shayne, we have Shayne Graham who's actually been working up there so that's been a tremendous help this year as well.
On long snapper Ryan Armour becoming starter this season and benefiting team...
On hard work, it was just hard work. It was like the O-line position you don't notice it until you notice it. I mean he's been laces out on all his field goals, he's been laces up as a punter. I mean he's been lights out.
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