Oct. 1, 2007

LOGAN, Utah -

HEAD COACH Brent Guy

Recap of Utah game:

"I think I misspoke after I watched the film. I felt like we had been dominated in field position and then as I look at the final stats, we end up exactly tied at the 37 yard line for field position, but when you look at the second quarter, which was the quarter that got us, there is a difference of 29 yards in field position. After reviewing it, I temper what I said before because in the second half we actually won back the field position part of it with some of the stuff that we did that we didn't do in the first half on special teams and created some turnovers. It was really all in the second quarter with 17 points in the quarter, a big return, a big play where we broke the coverage on defense. Then we were trying to run the clock out and throw the ball on a third-and-two and drop a ball out in the flat, where we could have run the clock out and go in at half just down 11. Instead, they got the ball back and get into position for the field goal and there's 17 points in the second quarter. I really think that was the quarter that was our own undoing as far as the ability to compete with Utah and play in the type of game conditions it was in and get the game to the fourth quarter. We still came out in the second half and made some plays. Jake Hutton made a great play on the interception and then we go down inside the five, but don't get a touchdown and then miss the field goal. So obviously that was a discouraging part of the start of the third quarter. After looking at the tape, I'm not quite sure that the fake punt was a brilliant of a call as I thought it was. I don't know for a fact, but I think the guy may have done it on his own. When you look at the game tape, there's no one else on the field that knows that he's running with the ball, but him. So I can't quite say that for sure, but I thought at the time, `Wow, that was a pretty gutsy call at that point to do it.' They were backed up, it was fourth and about nine and a half when the play happened. The more I look at it, the more I'm not sure that the guy didn't do it on his own. He had held the ball for the first one because we were trying to return off that wedge return and he had held it a long time before he kicked it. The second that happened, he did the same thing, stepped up and everybody took off to cover the punt and then he took off and ran with the football. Again, I'm speculating and guessing, but the way it looked, it almost looked like he decided to take off on his own and he made a great play. Whether they called it or not, it was a great play by that kid to keep the momentum going and obviously that made a big difference because they went ahead and scored on that drive."

On re-evaluating special teams:

"We are going to have to change some guys around. We just missed tackles. Where we had been really good on punt was our gunners play, those guys tackling on the edges. Geno (Odong) has been our special teams captain and done really well two weeks in a row. Geno just missed some tackles out there on the edges, Roy Hurst missed some tackles. We didn't kick the ball nearly as well on kickoff coverage. We were kicking it real low on both of those ones that got big returns on us. Our kickoff return people did not block or hold their blocks and were getting run by, which should not happen to us, which was causing our wedge to block people that should have already been blocked. We weren't able to get the ball up the hash and we really only had one good return and that was after we adjusted it in the second half and actually bounced the ball more outside than bringing it up the inside. We don't re-tool what we do schematically as much as just check some guys and make sure they know they role and part with the team. Like I have said before about what is good with our special teams is that we've had some role players, guys that don't start or don't play a lot for us, that have done a really good job for us. Those guys didn't play real well this week either. Again, special teams has always been something that we've been bragging about for quite awhile, but we dropped a lot of spots in a lot of places. In the second quarter, it cost us dearly, especially with the long punt return."

On Hawai'i and their special teams:

"They're very athletic, especially in the return game because of the type of receivers that they have. What scares me more than anything is their offense, obviously, they're scoring over 60 points both times they've been home on the island and over 40 in games off the island. That's the thing that scares me the most about going and playing this football game, is the potential that their offense has. Colt (Brennan) threw five interceptions last week, which is totally out of character for him. One of those was not his fault, one was a bobbled ball that got deflected and into Idaho's hands. Out of the other four, a couple were forced throws and a couple were really nice plays by the defenders, but that's the first game where he's thrown multiple interceptions. A year ago when we played them he had not thrown an interception when he got to us. This year he's already thrown six of them and five of them were last game. So that's something we'll have to try to build on and use as motivation for our kids in that we've got to get the ball turned over. We've got to get back to what we do best on special teams and that is get ourselves field position and make them play a long field and not a short field like Utah was able to do in the second quarter when they got all those points."

SENIOR WR/KR Kevin Robinson:

On Utah game:

"Just like Coach said, it felt like we were in the game but then it got a little frenzied in the second quarter where they went on a streak of a couple touchdowns and a field goal that gave them the momentum, but we didn't ever feel like we were out of the game. We just felt that we needed to capitalize on some things, but we just didn't. We just have to learn from them and capitalize on them next time if we get in those situations again."

On Hawai'i:

"It's going to be fun. Hopefully we can put up a lot of points, just like they do. If not, it will probably won't be in our favor of winning. Football is weird game so we're just going of have to wait and see what happens when we go out there and play."

On punt coverage:

"We were there to make plays, we just missed tackles. We watched the tape over and over, we were in great position, he just made a little hesitation and it froze us a little bit and enough for him to get by us. I know because I do punt returns too and I saw him come at me and just the slightest little move can throw off everything. We were in good position, we just didn't make the tackle. Normally we make those tackles, we just missed him."

On the trip to Hawai'i:

"It's a long trip. You get kind of stiff and sore on the plane. You've just got to fight through it. For the older guys, we've done this before and so we've got to tell the younger guys that's its going to be alright, just make sure you warm up properly and don't let the long trip affect you. I think that's what happened the last time we went there because that was the longest trip we'd ever made, but you can't use that as an excuse, you just have to go out there and play football."

On not being able to go to Hawai'i with a "vacation" mentality:

"No, you've got to go out there with a business approach in that we're there to play football. It's nice that we get to go there and enjoy it and experience it, because some people don't get to experience it like we do. But we still have to approach everything as a football game first, and then after the football game, be able to have fun."

On trying to forget last year's big loss:

"Last year was last year. That's something I've been treating my whole career is that after that game is over, it's over, move on to the next game. I haven't really given too much thought into what happened last year, I just know last year we lost. I'm going into this year like it's a whole new game and start from there."

On if losing takes its toll:

"It's starting to get to me a little bit, but I can't focus on that, I've got to focus on a new game every time I go out there and just do my best every game. I can't go around thinking about the last game and how we lost it, or how we lost the game before that. I've just got to realize that a new game is a new game and hopefully I can do something better this time so that we can get a win."