Monmouth Post-Game Quotes
Monmouth at Kennesaw State
Fifth Third Bank Stadium
Oct. 31, 2015
Post-Game Quotes
Head Coach Brian Bohannon
Opening Statement:
“Let me first of all say how proud I am of our football team and our football program. You really don’t know what the expectations are when you come into a season and you‘ve never had one before. All you’re trying to do is get better every week. We have assured ourselves a winning season, and that is a big deal. Things weren’t pretty today we could have done some things a lot better. There are no two way about that. At the end of the day we have one six games. For our first year that is pretty good. I am extremely proud with how our kids came out after having a tough outing last week. All we talked about all week was responding and we came out and played. Early on they had us on our heels a little bit and we settled down on defense and offensively we were able to move the ball. There are times just don’t get [the football] to end zone or get points when we should, but we were able to move the football. So, I am extremely proud of our football program and that doesn’t just include our players or staff, but everybody that has been involved in our process that’s been going on for about three years now. We’ve got football left to play don’t get me wrong. I think you’ll look on this as big a mark as this program continues to move forward. I am very proud of our team and our program.”
On Monmouth’s Size Advantage
“I don’t know if it was as much size as it was just the speed of the game and some of the stuff you’re dealing with you can’t simulate in practice. The same thing we do to people a lot. They were doing to us with some of their zone read kind of stuff and the speed of the game kind of got us. We were struggling to get lined up at times. Once we settled down, other than that fiasco at the end of the game, we found a way to stop them. So, the size thing is there, but our kids run pretty good and play hard and fit the gaps where you are supposed to. When you are dealing with a zone read you have to build a wall, and we did that. The first drive not as much, but I think that was more speed of the game and us getting honed into what we were doing than it was anything else.”
On Play Calling (Offense)
“Well obviously, you want to keep the offense as balanced as you can. You don’t want to just line up and go the same way you do all of the time. Who gets the ball is really more determined by what they do than it is by design all of the time. Meaning; who are they taking, what they are doing, and are they able to move around a little bit. Basically we try and balance what we do by what the defense is giving us.”
On Lorenzo Adger Playing Center
“I don’t know if you all notice, but we are playing with our third string center today. I am going to give him (Lorenzo Adger 72) a lot of props. You didn’t hear his name and you did see him today, but that is a good thing. He is not a third string center, he is a starting guard, but he had to go center because our two centers are out and you didn’t notice it. That is a pretty big deal.”
On Taylor Henkle
“All he has done since he has been here, since he has been campus, he has been where he is supposed to be and doing what he is supposed to do. The funny thing if guys would just understand when you do that the ball will come your way. Then you have just to make plays. You don’t have to go and create plays. Just do your job and you will be amazed! He is steady, trustworthy, and everything and above that you can think of from a football player.”
On Trey White
“He is competitive, hard-nosed, and charismatic. When he first got here he would get so wound up. That is just who is and he is as tough as nails. He takes some shots out there and I am ready to call in for Jake at any moment and he just gets right back up. He loves the game. He loves competing.”
On how this Win will Improve Momentum
“Well, I think we take it one week at a time. The big thing for us was obviously coming of a loss how can we regroup, respond, and be a better football team. We didn’t have as many penalties today. We had 11 for 105 yards a week ago. It’s amazing when you do the little things correctly how it gives you the opportunity to be successful. We don’t look ahead and we don’t look behind much. I did a little bit this week more than I ever have because I wanted to understand what we did correctly and how we have got to make it better. We will move forward.”
On Mental Preparation
“I thought a lot about how we weren’t focused like we should have been. Kids will tell you I got after them pretty good after the game last week because it very obvious where we were. So, as soon as we started on Monday morning all I said was, ‘You are worried about what that coach is saying. If you have question or don’t understand it you raise your hand. I don’t want to hear anything else. When you go to the practice field and the ‘Win Today’ sign is hanging over the fence and you tap it, you are locked loaded. There is nothing else going on in this world than what we are doing right now in this moment.’ We had a lot of false starts and we emphasized that. Sometimes it is more about emphasis than it is fixing something. It is all mental.”
PLAYER QUOTES
DE Mason Harris
On Being 6-2
“Looking back, you don’t really know. Obviously not really knowing the teams we were playing against, but now after the first game, I would say, definitely yes. I don’t expect to lose a game. We are 6-2, but every game we're going in to win and I think we have just as much talent as anybody. Not dwelling on the last game but if defense would have played good, we would have won.
On What was Said on the Sideline After the First Monmouth Drive
“We came out super flat, I think they scored probably like five plays and it was quick. So yeah, we got on the sidelines and we just looked at each other and were like, either we're going to get it together or we’ll lose. We got it together and held them to, what was the final score? 13 or something like that. Like you say that first drive, that was scored the first five or six plays, it was a shock, we were asleep I will say that. Defense, we didn't have any energy but after that, we got on the sidelines and looked at each other, we came back out after that first drive.”
As one of the few seniors on the team, you’ve played a few more snaps than the rest of these guys. What do you tell them when you get in these tough ball games, what is it that you try to impart to your teammates?
“You’re going to get down, bad things are going to happen in football games and just got to keep going, you never know what is going to happen. That’s one thing, at the beginning of the season; we started of well, starting beating teams a lot. Now we’re getting into the nitty gritty of the season where teams are good, really good and like you seen today, they came back. I just tell them to keep their heads up.”
QB Trey White
On the Physical Toll Each Game Takes on Your Body
“Well hopefully the Falcons win tomorrow so hopefully it is a good day. I’m usually pretty sore but that’s what option football is. I’ve kind of been doing it for a while so, I guess I’m a little use to it. I’m just so proud of the guys, we really fought. I need to do a little better job of getting us some better plays.”
OL Lorenzo Adger
On the Offensive Line Play and Shuffling of Positions
“Preparation during the week, just the way Coach Chesnut coached us this week, it was a different approach and he pretty much just said that it's some guys that’s going to have an opportunity to step up and play and you just have to make that opportunity come.”
On Playing Center
“It was different. I got to touch the ball every play, so that was a good thing out of it but it was different. I would say I was descent enough, I mean we won (Trey interrupts acknowledging Adger was good enough).
RB Chaston Bennett
When you got that ball, what were your eyes saying?
“(Chaston laughs) I mean, I was thinking six, you know. Unfortunately I didn’t get to in none today, I was a little upset but next week if I get the opportunity I’m going to try and put it in the end zone.
