On the motivation for this game
“They’re all important. That’s not coach cliché. When you’re a new team or a new staff, we understand how valuable every single rep is, how valuable every practice is. Our kids understand that. They understand that there’s a lot of work that still needs to be done for us to go where we want to go. That’s the motivation that they have. These guys are hungry. They want to get better. They want to get coached. I’ll be extremely disappointed if they didn’t come out excited for an opportunity to get in Neyland and tee this thing up.”
On the physicality of his unit
“From a physicality perspective, we’ve gotten better. We’re more physical than we were on day one. As a coach, that’s what we’re looking for. Have we made strides? So, we have. Are we as physical as we want to be? Not at all. The kids understand that, and we’re working our tails off to get there. For the priority in the summer, it’s just those daily deposits. We want to make sure that we’re constantly going throughout the summer. There are no days off in terms of our mental aspect and approach. We’ll have cutups at this point. These guys will be able to evaluate themselves. Not just what we say schematically but what they see on video. Getting in the playbooks, studying on their own, so by the time that we hit the fall, we can install extremely fast. We can continue to put even more of the playbook in at a faster pace.”
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