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Week One- An Interview With COACH HOPE

  
THE MODERATOR: We're going to go
ahead and get started here. We'll start out with the
phone calls. Go ahead.

Q. Coach, talk about what you saw on film that you'll see from Notre Dame this weekend.


COACH HOPE: They're awfully good from the line of scrimmage. They have a heck of an offensive line. Big and strong and experienced, veteran offensive line. And I think their front seven on defense is outstanding. They have, obviously, a lot of great players on their football team.  Tyler Eifert is certainly one of the top players at his position on a national level. Great skill players, particularly in the backfield. What really sticks out in my mind is their strength off the line of scrimmage with their offensive line and the strength of their defensive front seven.

Q. Hey, Coach. Wanted to talk to you about Frankie Williams winning the Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors. What do you think about the way Frankie played, and what do you expect from the freshman this year?


COACH HOPE: Frankie's a very good player, very skilled. He was highly regarded in the recruiting process. We recruited him long and hard and got a commitment from him, and then there was a lot of competition to hang on to Frankie. He was a guy, who the season was over last year, we had redshirted, but looking back at last year, if I had to do it all over again, I would have taken the redshirt off of Frankie Williams because he was certainly a good enough football player to help us win last year, not only as a defensive back but also as a punt returner.

He's a high energy guy, unbelievable to be around. Has an unbelievable personality. A lot of fun. He has great character, and he is a character. A great addition to our football team. I think he'll be a real star here at Purdue throughout his career.

Q. And I wanted to get your take on -- I wanted you to assess your running game from week one and what strides you want to make going forward as well.


COACH HOPE: I couldn't understand your question.

Q. Your running game, and what did you think of it in week one, and what do you want to do to kind of improve upon it as you go forward as well?


COACH HOPE: I was excited about the way our team showed up and played the whole game with a lot of emotion and enthusiasm. We had the game pretty much handled by halftime and challenged our team to come out in the second half and demonstrate some killer instinct, if you will. I thought that they really rallied to the occasion. So I was glad that we were able to start fast and finish strong.

 

There were some areas of improvement, obviously. We turn the ball over way too much. Against a better opponent, that would potentially equate into a loss. I think we're a much more disciplined football team this year. We didn't have very many penalties throughout the course of the game, didn't have any penalties on defense. We didn't have any pre-snap penalties on offense until the latter part of the fourth quarter.

 

I think there's a lot of great signs for our football team. We have grown up in the church significantly from a physical standpoint. We're an older, better, and more physically mature football team, particularly across the defensive front.  So a lot of good signs this past Saturdayand certainly some areas to improve on.


 

 

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