It’s a shame we have to keep meeting under these circumstances. Kidding … sort of.
Hopefully you all have forgotten about the Duke game by now, or at least tried to. I can promise you that the team, however, has not.
It was a very rough game. I don’t even know what you take out of it, honestly. On Sunday, we went back and watched the film. The offense had a pretty good first half, but we didn’t come and finish it off in the second half.
Coach said he thought we were focusing too much on what they were doing instead of focusing on us and getting into the end zone. There – that’s one thing we can take from the game and something we have to learn from.
It was a tough loss, especially in the ACC, and we really tried to come together this week. It’s critically important that we go up to Boston College on a mission and get a win.
The tough thing right now is not letting that inkling of doubt get into your head. You have to know you’re on a good football team and you just have to put it together. I can only speak for us on offense, but we’re going to come ready to play. We have a lot of confidence in the defense and I’m sure they feel the same way. We’re going to go up there and play a good game this weekend.
I’ve been up to Boston College once before, in my freshman year. It was miserably dry and cold. I don’t know what the weather’s going to be like, but hopefully it will be at least a little better.
Boston College hasn’t had the best run so far this year, but that’s the thing with college ball now. You really have to come prepared to play every week, and if you’re not ready, you will get beaten. We’re not overlooking anybody. They’re a good team, especially between in the tackles. They’re good run stoppers in that area.
Really, we just have to focus on the second half of this year. We’ve got the bye week after this and we’ve got to get a good start to the second half of the year and just really turn it around. We’ll get everyone healed up next week and get all the bumps and bruises out. In the past it seems we’ve done really well coming out of bye week.
But first, we need this win. Desperately, badly. We’re going in there hungry.
More than likely, we won’t see you at the game. But enjoy it from your couch, or wherever else you are.
-As told to Kate Shefte
