Week one- An Interview With:
COACH URBAN MEYER

   
THE MODERATOR: We'll open up with coach and an opening statement. Raise your hands. We'll get the microphones to you and I'll call on you for questions.

COACH MEYER: Obviously pleased with the win, very pleased with the win. Obviously the first quarter was very poor football on our end. But you also want to give credit where credit's due, and that's Miami Ohio did a really good job defending a certain formation that we ran out, which is a base formation. Concerning down the road we need to make sure we make quicker adjustments, which we made some halftime adjustments.
But they have some good players. At quarterback, we were concerned going into the game that a future NFL football player will be hard to contain because he's going to throw the ball. Gets it out real fast. Can't really get it to him. That's exactly what happened. But I think one of the things about Braxton
Miller that I really had to see, and I did see today, is that the objective with Braxton is to make him from an athlete playing quarterback to a quarterback that manages.
And a quarterback position is a unique position in all sports, where he's got to manage so much. He's got to manage basically the entire offense. He's got to stay positive, his leadership.
He has to be a leader. And he showed that today. I told him in the middle of the second quarter, because he
started he kept positive even when it was we all saw what it was.
So I'll certainly answer any questions for you.

Q. How big a play was the Chris Carter like catch by Devin Smith, just to ignite you; and if you would, a second one, how did the reality of this day measure up to what you thought it would be, not the Xs and Os, but the total experience?

COACH MEYER: Well, not fortunately or unfortunately, whatever it is, that darned first quarter, I don't want to say I was embarrassed with the way we were playing. We worked so hard and we didn't play very well, in all phases.
Defense let a couple of passes go that we shouldn't have.

To answer your question about that catch, I don't know if Devin has been saving that, but I've not seen him do that. Now that I know he can, I expect he's actually been playing pretty good for us.

But that was a wild moment. And that was a moment that ignited the stadium. The stadium got quiet. Our sideline got quiet and we were waiting for a play to happen and he went out and made a play. That's football.

Q. The day overall?

COACH MEYER: The day overall, it was a great day. Hang on Sloopy kicked it off in the fourth quarter.
And I stared at that for a while, watched it. Told a couple of people that I've never seen that before. Checked that out.

And it goes back, just a little disappointed in the first quarter. But after that, what a great day. We enjoy a win. We all know it's difficult to win in major college football. Now we've got one and now we get ready for next week.

Q. I was curious, you mentioned the defense a second ago, the fact I think they netted one rush yard. But big plays, maybe they were able to break those a little bit. Their scheme's to throw it a lot, obviously. Is that just sort of one of those they're going to get to you eventually or anything that broke down?

COACH MEYER: The big ones no. The short ones, absolutely you have to rally up and make the receiver pay a price, and have to make the quarterback pay a price.

That's how you defend passes. What we did that as we developed a little bit. But, no, there's no excuse for a play, one was a blown coverage, the long one down the far sideline, Miami's sideline, and there was one that went right through the middle of our defense.

So there's no excuse for that whatsoever. However, you're going to give up yards, if they decide to throw every down, he'll throw for a lot of yards and be an NFL player, that quarterback.