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Jim Mora Postgame with Adam Giardino - FIU · Coaches Corner

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  At halftime. Obviously we knew the message that you wanted to deliver to the
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  team over the final thirty minutes. Do you think they lived up to what
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  you wanted to see? I don't think I did a good job at halftime
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  of conveying to you what I said, because I told him they we were
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  a horrible football team, and we had played like a horrible football team.
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  And that's different than being a horrible football team. You know, all is
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  lost when you lose. You know, that's just that's just the hard,
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  cold truth. And I'm gonna tell anyone that may still be listening or may
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  still be hanging in there with you, that that I will promise you that
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  I will not let this program sin to sink to the depths that it was
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  at before I got here. Now that might be hard to believe right now,
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  but I'm not gonna let it happen. Now. It's gonna be a
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  hard road, It's gonna be a tough road. Uh. You know,
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  maybe expectations got a little out of whack because we won six games. I
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  tried to tamper him down and say it's only six games. Six games,
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  But I'm not letting this place become what it was, which was we all
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  know what it was, so hang in there with us. Second half,
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  he made some decisions which showed a lot of trust in your defense when the
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  offense was maybe stalling at points where there was a call could go either way
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  to go for it or but you showed a lot of trust in the defense.
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  What did you like most about the defense in the second half? Are
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  you talking about the fourth down? Yes, well, I mean we couldn't
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  get a first down, so why would I ever go for it. They
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  hadn't moved the ball at all. Our defense in the second half. I
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  knew we could pin him down there. I mean, that's smart football.
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  So I understand people booing. But I've coached a lot of football games.
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  If there's one thing that I will give my credit for self credit for which
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  there's not a lot right now, I know how to manage a football game,
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  and I made the right decision there. And then at the end of
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  the game. Uh, you know, ta Kuan rovers in just in terms
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  of his leadership, and did you see anything that you really liked out of
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  him? I did not, No, I did not. I did not.
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  I don't like the fact that on fourth down we throw it a yard
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  short of what we need to do to continue the game. I don't think
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  that that's an excusable air, no coach, but let me say that,
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  and I'm not. I'm not. I don't want to clarify because I don't
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  want it to come down on take one. We got to call her route
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  that gets us the first downyardage, and if we get caught up like you
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  know, they jammed up Cam, he's got to fight the first downyardage.
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  So we're all sharing it, okay. But in terms of no, I'll
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  give our defense credit in the second half. Our defense played their tails off
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  in the second half. I mean our offense is we scored six touchdowns in
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  three games and kicked two field goals. That's quite honestly, and be honest,
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  it's pitiful. It's pitiful. Thanks for joining us at half, and
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  thanks for time after the game. Thank you