We didn’t have as many potential awards in the kicking game. Going back a little bit to the Texas game and talking about the indicators as to whether or not you’re going to win a football game, we didn’t have as many guys grade a winning performance as we did the week before. Obviously you have to have more than one guy ready to go and we’ve said many times that we haven’t been around many championship teams that two quarterbacks haven’t had a significant impact in the course of the season, but as we move forward today, actually as we moved forward yesterday in practice, that was the direction we went. And with that being said, though, we did not grade winning performance at that position for, I’m sure, a variety of reasons starting with what we asked them to do, starting with how well they did it, starting with the people that were around them, whether they did exactly what they should or not and they followed up with, well, you know, what do you see going forward from that standpoint? And I shared with them, and I know Steve released yesterday, that we’ve made a decision to have Troy get the bulk of the work and probably 75 to 80% of the reps in practice with preparation being the key word there, and not making reference to the fact that Justin did poorly and there was a big difference in grades from the standpoint as you watched the film and watched who we are and what we accomplished and how we can go about it, we think the best decision is for Troy to be the quarterback and get the bulk of the work. I mentioned I was on the air with Paul Keels and Jim Lachey last night and we were talking about some things and they asked some things, how would you evaluate the quarterback play, and we talked about the fact that, I guess, prefaced it by saying, I don’t want to infer at all that the quarterback play was the reason we came up short in the football game. I think there will be people saying, those are two good teams, those are two tough teams, and I think our guys will learn a lot from this. I think both will end up being good football teams at the end of the year.
But I would say that there’s no question, as we mentioned Saturday night, our kids played hard.
You get to see it from the end zone and side line and get to replay it and ask yourself why and how could we have taught it better and what could we have done from a planning standpoint better.
TRESSEL: Well, haven’t seen you since about midnight on Saturday, and initial impressions after the ball game were our kids played extremely hard and played tough and we didn’t do some of the things that you need to do to take advantage of in a tight ball game and have a chance to win a hard-fought ball game.Īs you watch the film, there’s a lot of the same emotion, but you get to see it from even more detailed fashion.
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